Job Description

Job Description

Key skills: Project Management related to application development, Requirement Gathering, Project Documentation, Meeting Facilitation

Key solution space: eCommerce, Manufacturing, Wholesale, Print

Full-time 6-month position with the expectation of conversion to full-time employment at the client.

Remote position with occasional onsite travel (near Sedalia MO).

Join an innovative and energetic Missouri company for an exciting modernization effort. An ideal candidate will be a trusted advisor, active contributor, and project champion. The Application Development Business Analyst will play a crucial role in bridging the gap between the business and the development team, ensuring successful project outcomes. Primary responsibilities include understanding and analyzing business requirements, translating them into detailed technical specifications, and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver effective software solutions. Exceptional analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills will also be needed to deliver high-quality software products that meet our clients' needs.

The Business Analyst will be a self-starter and detail-oriented. A successful candidate will have experience managing Information Technology related projects. They will also be well versed in lifecycle and project management methodologies (e.g. Scrum, PMP), and have experience measuring performance, tracking costs, schedule, and knowledge management best practices. They will also be effective at identifying, managing, and mitigating risks.

Elentic prides itself on being a risk-focused company and as such, key success criteria are being able to identify and mitigate risks. We believe that this is best accomplished through transparent and open and honest communication. Therefore, a successful candidate will be a strong team player and able to communicate effectively across a multidisciplinary team (e.g. business subject matter experts (SME), IT operations, engineering SMEs, and business/project analysts).

This position requires risk management, budget support, meeting facilitation, and resource coordination. It interfaces with business, system owners, development teams, and infrastructure teams. A successful candidate will be able to manage project actions (e.g., Schedule and Risk), support Knowledge Management tools, and provide executive-level project status reporting, including MS PowerPoint. In other words, assisting the PMO in the coordination of project efforts across organization pillars and work efforts.

​ Responsibilities:

• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and the development team, ensuring smooth communication and understanding of project requirements.
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, and presentations to gather input and communicate progress.
• Collaborate with clients, end-users, and stakeholders to elicit and document clear and concise business requirements.
• Analyze and validate these requirements to ensure they align with business objectives.
• Able to create project objectives, work breakdown structures, groom backlogs, estimates, scheduling, and contingency planning and trade-offs among scope, schedule, and resources.
• Able to logically define milestones, deliverables, resources, and timelines.
• Able to identify project risk and mitigation strategies, solutions and plans.
• Able to understand, assess and assure quality standards for projects are met.
• Identify, monitor, and forecast all financials associated with the project, including resources, software, and hardware.
• Document requirements changes through a change process (possibly iterative).
• Able to manage, measure, report status, and progress of plan tasks and deliverables utilizing approved tools.
• Knows and applies project management standards, best practices, and methodologies associated with the IT industry

Experience Required:

• At least 2 years experience working within the Business Analyst discipline including significant experience managing Information Technology related projects
  • A strong, assertive communicator who can build and maintain positive working relationships within the project team
  • Versed in lifecycle and project management methodologies (software development lifecycle, Agile Scrum, SAFe, or PMP)
  • Able to work within multiple SDLC methodologies: Agile and Waterfall (Scrum and PMP)
  • Familiar with Software and Application Integration Concepts
  • Familiar with tracking costs, schedule, critical path management, performance progress, and identify and mitigate risks
  • Proficient in common office software: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business or related scientific and/or technical discipline.
  • 3 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education

Experience Preferred:

• Experience working within Manufacturing, eCommerce, or Wholesale solution space.
• ScrumMaster (CSM), Scrum Coach, and/or prior assistance with agile transformations
• Experience with GitHub and JIRA
• Experience with data management, data quality, data security, and data migration projects
• Experience performing Risk Management

Elentic provides equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals. Employment decisions at Elentic will be based on performance, qualifications, abilities, education, and experience. Elentic does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Elentic complies with any applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.

Company Description

Elentic is a consultancy with a team of healthcare, data experts, cybersecurity, certified project managers, technical architects, and software engineers that specialize in transformational change.

Architect, plan, manage and implement transformational or critical technology projects
Align organizational priorities with architectural, application, and data strategy
Mature business continuity and operational resiliency capabilities
Protect established service level agreements with rigorous testing (functional and non-functional)
Efficiently conduct impact-free implementation events with comprehensive risk mitigation, communication, vendor
partnering and waved implementation events (i.e. comprehensive go-live command center driven events)
Ensure compliance with corporate and government standards and policies

Company Description

Elentic is a consultancy with a team of healthcare, data experts, cybersecurity, certified project managers, technical architects, and software engineers that specialize in transformational change. \r\n\r\nArchitect, plan, manage and implement transformational or critical technology projects\r\nAlign organizational priorities with architectural, application, and data strategy\r\nMature business continuity and operational resiliency capabilities\r\nProtect established service level agreements with rigorous testing (functional and non-functional)\r\nEfficiently conduct impact-free implementation events with comprehensive risk mitigation, communication, vendor\r\npartnering and waved implementation events (i.e. comprehensive go-live command center driven events)\r\nEnsure compliance with corporate and government standards and policies