Senior IT Business Analyst-Birmingham

Our client is a solid IT consultancy specializing in Internet, Intranet and Enterprise Integration applications. For market-leading vendors, open source providers and their key accounts, they've been an integral part of the earliest readiness and successful adoption of several considerable shifts in technology: open standards, multi-tiered systems, Java application servers, enterprise portals, J2EE, EAI, B2Bi, Web services, open source and Service-Oriented Architectures. 

Must be local to the Birmingham Alabama area.  US Citizen or Greencard Required.  The successful candidate will help businesses implement technology solutions in a cost-effective way by determining the requirements of a project or program, and communicating them clearly to all stakeholders, facilitators and partners. 

Solves organizational information problems and requirements by analyzing requirements; recommending system controls and protocols. Develop technical solutions to business problems, or to advance a company’s sales efforts, begins with defining, analyzing and documenting requirements; managing requirements at the project level leads to fulfilling business needs. 

Job Responsibilities:  Define areas of process improvement  Measure progress and collect data for ongoing adjustments  Analyze data, customer feedback and stakeholders’ input  Improve all parts of workflow, supply chain and other business processes  Control and re-adjust the process as necessary to work toward improving the effectiveness of a product or service and the effectiveness of the BA’s main duty is to support project delivery requirements management.  Requirements analysis.  Determines operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats.  Improves systems by studying current practices; designing modifications.  Recommends controls by identifying problems; writing improved procedures.  Prepares technical reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.  Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.  Defines and documents customer business functions and processes.  Document transformations performed in system to system communication. Job Requirements:  1+ years of experience using XML is required.  1 + Agile development experience required.  Experience in Database SQL.  Ability to communicate results and clear expectations to team and customer  Experience documenting findings/results. Education:  Bachelors degree required.