The Business Analyst plays a key role in translating end user expectations/outcomes to real design specifications. Aligns with business stakeholders to create 3-year business capability roadmaps that identify enterprise technology solutions that deliver value to clients and position the firm for growth and achievement of its strategic plan. Uses significant independent judgement in solving problems and choosing methods of work. Mentors others on complex and far reaching technology issues.

Key Responsibilities

Business Technology Definition & Strategy

• Liaison between IT and assigned business areas on projects and
  portfolio management
• Attends business specific meetings (i.e. team, leadership) to engage and understand business day to day operations, build credibility to best guide technology solution alignment
• Consult with customer to proactively identify technology solution
  opportunities for unique and complex problems that have a broad
  impact or significant risk to the business
• Defines, prioritizes, and manages program and project initiatives
  (business and IT)
• Contributes to the creation of project charters, scoping documents and other pre-approval materials for proposed projects - facilitates through governance approval and the hand-off to the Project Manager
• Accountable for facilitating, developing, and representing functional business capability roadmaps

Solution Logical Design

• Crafts approach (i.e. work sessions, scenarios) to gather high-level and detailed design
• Frames, visually depicts "logical" solutions that aid developers,
  engineers in translating business needs into viable technology plans
• Completes root cause analysis and translates outcomes in business
  consumable language, including translating complex and conceptual
  ideas
• Monitors that the solution is meeting the stakeholder's expectationsGathers high-level business requirements and contributes to the definition of scope during initial discovery by conducting meetings/interviews, and facilitating large group/cross-functional sessions with partners

Quality Control

• Creates, executes testing plans to confirm requirements are met by
  technology solution both in new technology projects and requested
  changes that are enhancements to the existing platforms

Business Architecture

• Works cross-team to establish enterprise process management
  guidelines and framework
• Ensures business requirements captured during a project are moved
  into the enterprise process model (EPM) for leverage in future
  enhancements, training, or support work
• Acts as a consultant to technologists who are evaluating
  changing/replacing business area technology
• Develops/manages company end use-cases to help with organizational change management and unique technology solutions (for example: such as desktop images)
• Establishes business integration map that links one business area's
  processes to another tactically, to provide visibility to impacts when 1
  area of business is changed

Education

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related degree and 2-8+ years of related experience, depending upon level.

Required Experience

• 0-8 years of relevant technology and business roles to include Business Analyst/consultant, trainer, or communications specialist
• Some experience facilitating design sessions
• Participated in, and documented process mapping sessions

Clyde & Co shifted to virtual work for the majority of our lawyers and business services team with the global outbreak of Covid-19. This precaution was taken to help protect our people, clients and communities. It is likely that this role will start virtually while the firm continues to evaluate the situation.

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