Business Data Analyst - Temp

Why Us, Why Now

The AAMC IT team is looking for a detail-oriented, customer experience focused Business Data Analyst to help support our modernization effort.

This requirement is in the Data & Insight team within the Enterprise Applications group at the AAMC. The individual in this role will support the modernization project to launch a modernized product on AWS. This individual will manage and maintain functional and design specifications by tracking business requirements for initiatives that support the strategic objectives of the Association. This individual will gain experience by supporting the life cycle of an IT system modernization.  This individual will support functional testing, including end-to-end data testing, and support verifying the data synchronization process between legacy and modernized systems per defined testing scenarios.

 The individual in this position partners with the functional groups within the business organization to maintain and document requirement changes and then communicates and clarifies business needs to all relevant stakeholders. The individual is expected to assess user needs utilizing industry standard model-driven analysis techniques and a structured requirements process via approved processes, templates and tools throughout the software development life cycle.

How Will You Make An Impact

1. Perform a data-focused requirements analysis:

• Work with PM, business stakeholders, and vendors to establish baseline expectations for requirements relatedto project deliverables.

• Work closely with business stakeholders, vendors, architects, and others as necessary to create the required documentation.

• Provide the required input in determining scope changes of requirements based on project scope and objectives.

• Capture, define, analyze, and translate functional and non-functional business requirements into system user stories/ use cases and requirements specifications that contribute to effective software development.

• Elicitation, creation, and review of requirements, use cases, and other artifacts and communicate requirements to the customer and vendor. Analyze requirements from all actor/user perspectives and identify alternative paths. Translate business needs into requirements specifications.

2. Provide an effective liaison between business stakeholders, vendors, and IT to provide requirements clarification support

• Maintain and track user stories/use cases and requirements specifications through the software development life cycle.

• Communicate and collaborate with the Business, vendors, and IT (including architects, tech leads, developers, testers, and operation teams).

• Provide support on clarification of requirements to the vendor, AAMC developers and QA to ensure they fully understand and correctly interpret them.

• Facilitate effective and timely communication of defect-related work that will be identified during the QA activities, cut-over planning, and launch by engaging appropriate representatives from Business, vendor,r and IT project members and assisting them in reaching the optimal resolution.

• Facilitate the execution of the change request process to manage requirements changes affecting baseline requirements.

3. This individual will provide support in the following data-related aspects,

• Support functional testing, including end-to-end data testing.

• Support verifying the data synchronization process between legacy and modernized systems per defined testing scenarios.

• Support UAT testing

  • Data verification before system cut-over

  • Defect follow-up and coordination, retesting

Provide coordination between business stakeholders and off-shore dev MT team (to resolve time zone challenges, 10.5 hours difference).  This person must have the flexibility to work occasionally starting 10:30pm EST for 1-2 hours, or starting at 6am EST.  This is critical during UAT defect fixing phase to close the development and to achieve UAT sign-off, and during the launch phase to ensure timely response to business needs.

What will you bring to the role

• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline with a minimum of 2 years of experience as a Business Data Analyst

• Experience with data analytics, reporting tools such as Tableau, Power BI,  is a big plus

• PL/SQL experience is a big plus

• Strong Interpersonal skills with excellent written and verbal communication skills are a must

• Strong time management skills are a must as you will be working on multiple project tracks.

• Experience working in an agile team is required. Any experience with distributed teams is a big plus

• Strong skills to define product acceptance criteria

• Able to perform end-to-end data-focused testing/verification based on defined business data scenarios

• Able to identify and articulate existing/as-is process models while identifying aspects of data and technology actions needed to accomplish the desired end state

• Ability to create feature roadmaps with priorities in collaboration with business groups by facilitating consensus on project objectives, assumptions, and constraints amongst stakeholders

• Experience working with remotely located teams is desirable but not required

Remote Work Eligibility

If a bachelor’s degree is required, related work experience may be substituted in some positions.  One year of college course work at an accredited institution is equivalent to one year of related work experience.

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative​​ Action Employer.  The AAMC is committed to the policy of an equal employment opportunity in recruitment, hiring, career advancement, and all other personnel practices. The AAMC will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, matriculation, political affiliation, genetic information, disability, past or current military service, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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