Business Analyst I

Job Description

Business Analyst I | Park Place Technologies

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Park Place Technologies, located in Highland Heights, OH. Park Place Technologies, a 2,527-person organization, focuses on delivering essential support for its internal operations and company-wide business applications. This entry-level Business Analyst I role is crucial for ensuring the smooth functioning and continuous improvement of these critical systems. By gathering requirements, designing processes, and facilitating development, this position directly contributes to the operational efficiency and success of the entire company.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Highland Heights, OH

• Mission: This role is responsible for ensuring the efficient design, development, and support of company-wide business applications through effective requirements gathering and process management.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Requirements Definition: Collaborate with key subject matter experts to determine and document business functional and reporting requirements using various interviewing and facilitation techniques.
• Design and Documentation: Produce and maintain project deliverables, including entity model diagrams and detailed program specifications, utilizing defined requirements gathering and analysis standards.
• Solution Validation: Validate design with users by providing proof of concept for proposed solutions and interacting with the technical architecture team on complex application implementations.
• Project Participation: Participate in the management of the project lifecycle, develop business cases in partnership with stakeholders, and provide the development team with Business System subject matter expertise.
• Quality Assurance and Support: Perform unit and system testing, plan, coordinate, and participate in user acceptance testing, and manage system support to identify and resolve system issues with users, technical resources, and vendors.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree required. A working knowledge of Business Process workflow and a general understanding of the Information Technology development process is essential.
• Experience: 1-3 years of experience in a business environment where analysis, systems design, and project management for medium and large application development projects were performed.
• Skills: Requirements gathering, business process design, use case development, unit and user acceptance testing, and limited project coordination.
• Bonus: Full project life cycle experience is preferred, along with a good working knowledge of system integrations and data modeling.