Business Analyst - SMS (Safety Mgmt System)

Company: Softworld Inc
Location: Hamilton
Posted on: February 20, 2025

Job Description:

Job Title: Business Analyst - SMS (Safety Mgmt System)

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Job Location: Columbus, OH 43219 (hybrid)

Onsite Requirements:


Compliance and risk management frameworks
Incident tracking, risk assessment, and corrective action
Data security and privacy considerations for safety records


Job Description:

Priority Skills for SMS (Safety Management System) BA:

Familiarity with compliance and risk management frameworks
Experience defining requirements for incident tracking, risk assessment, and corrective action modules
Knowledge of data security and privacy considerations for safety records.


BA General Key Responsibilities:

Writing requirements for the RFP process for the upcoming ERP project
Defining and documenting business requirements
Process mapping and analysis
Writing User Stories that will feed into development team refinement sessions
Documenting acceptance criteria
Being the liaison for the business in IT discovery and prioritization meetings
Running refinement sessions
Participate in discovery and completion of the estimation model
Coordinate QA and UAT
Facilitate the CAB change management process.


Purpose of Position:

The Business Analyst (BA) is a technology resource acting as a liaison between technology teams and the business on medium-to-large IT projects.
The BA is responsible for the elicitation of stakeholder business requirements, their assessment, documentation, and translation to technology teams.
The Business Analyst serves the business by working closely with technology teams to ensure that business needs are met through technical solutions.
As part of a highly collaborative team, the role will interact with many technical and business resources across the enterprise.
The ideal candidate is a committed, creative, self-motivated technologist who is interested in practicing his or her skills and learning new ones.


Tasks and Responsibilities:

Collaborate with Business Relationship Managers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to define business problems, objectives, and scope of new projects
Prepare reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology team members to elicit, analyze, and validate business requirements for new products and cross-platform features & enhancements
Document business requirements in an organized, traceable manner
Translate vision, business needs & requirements to business stakeholders and development teams
Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology team members to define product concepts and technical solution designs
Evaluate technology solutions, including off-the-shelf components, to ensure that they meet business requirements
Translate technical solutions and constraints to business
Develop business case including solutions approach options, benefits, impact assessment, risks, assumptions & product cost/benefit
Assist in the development of roadmaps, release plans & project planning activities
Assist in the analysis and definition of user stories to support grooming activities
Evaluate technology deliveries meet business objectives
Support the development of user acceptance and quality assurance tests
Collaborate with project stakeholders to manage scope, requirements, and organizational change management required to adopt processes and technology delivered by the project Business Analyst


Minimum Education:

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience
CBAP Certification preferred


Minimum Experience:

3+ years of professional experience as an IT business analyst or comparable role, on medium/large-scale software development projects

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

Solid experience in business analysis planning and monitoring, elicitation, requirements analysis, design definition, and solution evaluation
Strong facilitation, critical/analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
Strong requirements modeling & process mapping skills
Experience with both traditional Waterfall and Agile/Lean methodologies
Excellent MS-Excel, SQL, and Visio skills. TFS experience preferred
Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
Ability to build strong partnerships and influence decision makers as well as process and technology adoption
Proactively understand functional business areas and how they interact/overlap with each other
Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
Strong Business Acumen
Experience in defining and maturing business capability roadmaps.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met and/or encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and communicate.
The employee may be required to stand, walk, and sit. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to view monitors, technical documents, and reference material.
The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.




** 3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3rd party subcontractors need not apply.
This position requires candidates to be eligible to work in the United States, directly for an employer, without sponsorship now or anytime in the future. **

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