Lead Business Analyst

If end date is listed, the posting will come down at 12:00 am on that date:

• Acts as a liaison between development groups and business units for the development and implementation of new systems and enhancement of existing systems.
• Evaluates new digital developments and evolving business requirements and recommends appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems.
• Prepares communications and makes presentations on system enhancements and/or alternatives

Key responsibilities include:

• Works independently with internal or external stakeholders to identify and clarify complex business requirements.
• Facilitates meetings with business stakeholders and Digital to understand business requirements; demonstrates understanding of business needs and recommends design changes for complex challenges.
• Translates complex business and design requirements into technical requirements.
• Directs and owns process/system changes and reviews process changes to ensure design changes meet business requirements.
• Provides guidance on process mapping and modeling techniques.
• Recognizes patterns in complex data and analytics processes to determine problems, risks and opportunities for improvement.
• Leads QA against specifications and rapidly prioritizes and solves issues.
• Guides others to identify issues with the quality and performance of products, services, solutions or processes and proposes improvements.
• Supports medium to highly complex projects, and delegates tasks appropriately to ensure project success.
• Understands and addresses cross-project impacts of issues.
• Partners with agile scrum teams to deliver digital solutions; acts as BA lead on scrum teams.
• Takes ownership of issues and resolution at a strategic level.
• Determines opportunities to redesign business processes that will optimize better business results.
• Acts as a liaison between Digital and business customers by communicating changes to designs and tests plans at a strategic level.
• Presents at client meetings with the business and software engineers to solve for client requirements; presents technical point of view.
• Leads the development and enhancement of enterprise-wide client applications in support of the Digital organization's objectives.
• Acts as agile software development SME; leads and guides team members on development practices in agile environments; collaborates with scrum masters and coaches to move projects forward.
• Coaches co-workers and provides feedback to enhance skills and knowledge.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required, preferably in mathematics, computer science, or business.
• Eight or more years of experience working with IT related systems/projects required. Business Analyst experience is required.
• Five or more years of experience in a customer service oriented and/or IT related field required.

In addition to the above qualifications, the successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Strong understanding of how to interpret customer's business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Strong ability to facilitate meetings and develop professional presentations.
• Strong expertise and ability to dissect multiple, complex and dynamic information, interpret and recommend alternative courses of action, and implement intervention strategies to attain performance targets.
• Strong ability to communicate systems and procedural changes to end users through excellent written and oral communications.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the practices, procedures and principles of performance analysis (trending, root cause and gap analysis), benchmarking and audit compliance.

Additional Information

Ameren's selection process includes a series of interviews and may include a leadership assessment process. Specific details will be provided to qualified candidates.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, military service or status, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other class, trait, or status protected by law.