Strategy
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Senior Business Analyst - Bellevue, WA
Ascentium is seeking a senior business analyst with experience in business requirements gathering, needs analysis, and project management for Microsoft-based solutions; combined with business and technical communications skills. We’re looking for a seasoned consultant who excels at problem solving and producing well crafted deliverables.
Senior Business Analyst - Bellevue, WA
Ascentium is seeking a senior business analyst with experience in business requirements gathering, needs analysis, and project management for Microsoft-based solutions; combined with business and technical communications skills. We’re looking for a seasoned consultant who excels at problem solving and producing well crafted deliverables.
Qualifications, the short list
What You'll Do
Analysis and Solution Definition
Technical Recommendation and Testing
Project Execution
Communication
What Grabs Our Attention
Ascentium, an experience agency, changes how brands engage the world. By fusing strategic account planning with innovative emerging technologies and world-class creative, Ascentium melds a passion for big ideas with an obsession for performance that delivers engaging experiences from awareness to conversion and, ultimately, loyalty. With offices in Seattle, Spokane, Portland, Los Angeles and London, Ascentium provides innovative, business impacting results across multiple channels for some of the world’s top brands. As testament to our customer zeal, Ascentium was called out as the agency with the “highest client satisfaction” on the 2009 Forrester Wave™ of Top Interactive Agencies.
Ascentium is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Ascentium is seeking a senior business analyst with experience in business requirements gathering, needs analysis, and project management for Microsoft-based solutions; combined with business and technical communications skills. We’re looking for a seasoned consultant who excels at problem solving and producing well crafted deliverables.
Qualifications, the short list
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5+ years experience in business analysis and project management
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Consulting firm experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft products and technologies
- Microsoft Office and Visio skills
- Strong customer service ethic
- Team player capable of working on multiple projects, with multiple clients, in a matrix-based teaming environment
- Experience working on RUP, Agile and Scrum based projects
- Demonstrable experience producing standard analysis deliverables
- Ability to lead a team
- Ability to mentor others
What You'll Do
Analysis and Solution Definition
- Quickly understand the business issues and data challenges of the client's organization and industry
- Review and edit requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution
- Develop functional specifications and system design specifications and any other supporting documentation
- Formulate solutions that integrate needs from various disciplines into a coherent deliverable with multiple audiences
- Convey information using proven modeling techniques such as UML
- Organize and integrate data, ideas and/or concepts into a usable problem-solving system
- Work with clients to identify key business issues and their priorities
Technical Recommendation and Testing
- Lead functional testing efforts
- Lead user acceptance testing efforts
- Lead application training for business users
- Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner
- Work with client personnel to identify required changes
- Communicate needed changes to development team
Project Execution
- Assist in enforcement of project deadlines and schedules
- Take input from Project Manager and appropriately and accurately apply comments/feedback
- Communicate and apply project standards
- Assist in managing resources in accordance with project schedule
- Consistently deliver high-quality services to our clients
- Run fiscally successful projects
- Demonstrate versatility in methodology types, including, but not limited to, Waterfall, RUP, Agile, Scrum
- Convey a commitment to understanding and doing what is best for the client, employee, and the organization
- Play a key role in achieving client satisfaction
- Proactively work with the project manager and the development lead to identify or mitigate risks, and manage scope and budget
Communication
- Assist in the facilitation of team and client meetings
- Deliver informative, well-organized presentations
- Communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully
- Build confidence and inspire support through a clear, well-organized, and convincing presentation, facilitation and proposal style
- Promote frank and fair discussion of tough issues
- Maintain timely, responsive and respectful communication with client employees
What Grabs Our Attention
- Minimum 5 years experience as a customer facing business analyst for a software related consultancy
- Experience working with enterprise clients
- Experience working with Microsoft SharePoint (and we don’t mean just using it – we mean creating solutions for customers in it)
Ascentium, an experience agency, changes how brands engage the world. By fusing strategic account planning with innovative emerging technologies and world-class creative, Ascentium melds a passion for big ideas with an obsession for performance that delivers engaging experiences from awareness to conversion and, ultimately, loyalty. With offices in Seattle, Spokane, Portland, Los Angeles and London, Ascentium provides innovative, business impacting results across multiple channels for some of the world’s top brands. As testament to our customer zeal, Ascentium was called out as the agency with the “highest client satisfaction” on the 2009 Forrester Wave™ of Top Interactive Agencies.
Ascentium is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Senior Business Analyst - Lead - Bellevue, WA
Ascentium is seeking a senior business analyst with experience in business requirements gathering, needs analysis, and project management for Microsoft-based solutions; combined with business and technical communications skills. We’re looking for a seasoned consultant who excels at problem solving and producing well crafted deliverables and can lead a team of business analysts.
Business Analyst Lead
Ascentium is seeking a senior business analyst with experience in business requirements gathering, needs analysis, and project management for Microsoft-based solutions; combined with business and technical communications skills. We’re looking for a seasoned consultant who excels at problem solving and producing well crafted deliverables and can lead a team of business analysts.
Ascentium designs and implements technology solutions ranging from Internet, intranet and portal sites to network and infrastructure for regional mid-market and enterprise customers. This position will work with project managers, developers, sales managers and subject matter experts to define and architect customized solutions. The ideal candidate will have experience in business needs analysis and functional specification development; client and resource management; information design and architecture skills; and presentation skills. MS SQL Server skills and/or user centered design skills would be a plus.
Ascentium is a gold certified Microsoft partner and focuses on Microsoft products and technologies but delivers other third party and open source solutions as well.
We are currently looking for a Business Analyst Lead/Consultant to join the team at our Bellevue, WA location.
Qualifications, the short list
What You'll Do
Analysis and Solution Definition
Technical Recommendation and Testing
Project Execution
Communication
What Grabs Our Attention
Ascentium is seeking a senior business analyst with experience in business requirements gathering, needs analysis, and project management for Microsoft-based solutions; combined with business and technical communications skills. We’re looking for a seasoned consultant who excels at problem solving and producing well crafted deliverables and can lead a team of business analysts.
Ascentium designs and implements technology solutions ranging from Internet, intranet and portal sites to network and infrastructure for regional mid-market and enterprise customers. This position will work with project managers, developers, sales managers and subject matter experts to define and architect customized solutions. The ideal candidate will have experience in business needs analysis and functional specification development; client and resource management; information design and architecture skills; and presentation skills. MS SQL Server skills and/or user centered design skills would be a plus.
Ascentium is a gold certified Microsoft partner and focuses on Microsoft products and technologies but delivers other third party and open source solutions as well.
We are currently looking for a Business Analyst Lead/Consultant to join the team at our Bellevue, WA location.
Qualifications, the short list
- Consulting firm experience
- Team player capable of working on multiple projects, with multiple clients, in a matrix-based teaming environment
- Ability to lead a team
- Ability to mentor others
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5+ years experience in business analysis and project management
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Strong customer service ethic
- Knowledge of Microsoft products and technologies
- Established Microsoft Office and Visio skills
- Experience working on Agile and Scrum based projects
- Demonstrable experience producing standard analysis deliverables
What You'll Do
Analysis and Solution Definition
- Quickly understand the business issues and data challenges of the client's organization and industry
- Review and edit requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution
- Develop functional specifications and system design specifications and any other supporting documentation
- Formulate solutions that integrate needs from various disciplines into a coherent deliverable with multiple audiences
- Convey information using proven modeling techniques such as UML as well as customized modeling techniques, depending on the client’s needs
- Organize and integrate data, ideas and/or concepts into a usable problem-solving system
- Work with clients to identify key business issues and their priorities
Technical Recommendation and Testing
- Lead functional testing efforts
- Lead user acceptance testing efforts
- Lead application training for business users
- Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner
- Work with client personnel to identify required changes
- Communicate needed changes to development team
Project Execution
- Assist in enforcement of project deadlines and schedules
- Take input from Project Manager and appropriately and accurately apply comments/feedback
- Communicate and apply project standards
- Assist in managing resources in accordance with project schedule
- Consistently deliver high-quality services to our clients
- Run fiscally successful projects
- Demonstrate versatility in methodology types, including, but not limited to, Waterfall, RUP, Agile, Scrum
- Convey a commitment to understanding and doing what is best for the client, employee, and the organization
- Play a key role in achieving client satisfaction
- Proactively work with the project manager and the development lead to identify or mitigate risks, and manage scope and budget
Communication
- Assist in the facilitation of team and client meetings
- Deliver informative, well-organized presentations
- Communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully
- Build confidence and inspire support through a clear, well-organized, and convincing presentation, facilitation and proposal style
- Promote frank and fair discussion of tough issues
- Maintain timely, responsive and respectful communication with client employees
What Grabs Our Attention
- Experience managing a team of business analysts
- MBA degree
- Minimum 5 years experience as a customer facing business analyst for a software related consultancy
- Experience working with enterprise clients
- The ability to produce wireframes
