Business Analyst

AZAD Technology Partners is seeking Business Analyst for a full-time, W2 Contract position based in Plano, TX

Schedule: Full-time, 40 hours/week, Hybrid (3 days per week on-site).

Assignment Duration: 12 Months with possibility of extending.

Compensation & Benefits: Compensation is between 50.00 - 55.00 hourly. Benefits include a Co-paid Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance, Cafeteria Plan, and 401k, as well as the option for Paid Time Off (dependent on amount requested).

Description:

Analyzes and validates project requirements that result in new applications or enhancements to existing applications, systems and/or business process design.
Understands business issues and needs that translate into requirements to create the overall solution. 
Manage the end-to-end requirements process using tools to define the set of processes and approach for each project, as well as issue resolution. 
Prepare requirements packages, prepare user stories, participate in grooming sessions, manage requirements traceability changes, artifacts, as well as develop reference and resource materials. 
Review final technical design/solutions and may coordinate User Acceptance Testing.
Participate across the project lifecycle team to ensure requirements have been met to stakeholder specifications. 
Provide leadership to IT product teams to drive technical development and provide visibility of product status to Executive Leaders.
Conduct multi-year product planning to determine product life-cycle decisions, ensure consistency with overall marketing and corporate strategy, and achieve product performance, revenue, market share/penetration, and profitability objectives.
Gathers and analyzes data and reports to understand the business problem and validates the same after the solution is live. 
Serve as a key liaison between Business and IT teams (Product, UI, Development, QA, Release and Production Support) to facilitate product development.
Complete functional and technical analysis for new features and technical projects.
Write technical documentation: Architecture diagram & sequence diagrams.
Manage multiple projects simultaneously and perform a variety of tasks to help delivering more value to our customers.
Acts as team lead as needed to provide leadership to less experienced professionals.

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.
5+ years of experience in a technical analyst role working with the engineers and product managers.
3+ years of experience in an environment building Microservices.
Must have expertise in requirements management (Agile and Waterfall), SDLC, business process, applications and systems, negotiation skills, and RFP development and technical evaluation.
Solid technical background with understanding and/or experience in software development and web technologies.
Expert knowledge and experience developing REST clients and services.
Strong knowledge and experience being responsible for running applications in production.
Strong knowledge and experience using platform-as-a-service deployment environment.
Strong knowledge and experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Strong knowledge and experience with both container and cloud VM application deployment models.
Experience working within agile/scrum/kanban development team.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and senior leaders.

Technical Skills:

Jira 
Azure DevOps
REST services
JSON
Swagger
Jenkins
Git
Adobe Analytics

About Us:

AZAD Technology Partners values diversity - in backgrounds and in experiences.
Since our inception, we have witnessed how our diverse workforce has thrived while contributing to the increases in innovation and advancements in the client organizations we serve.

AZAD Technology Partners is committed to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and is striving to build an even more diverse, inclusive team that reflects the people and communities where we live and work.

AZAD Technology Partners is an equal opportunity employer that considers and employs qualified individuals based upon job related qualifications regardless of race, color, sex, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or any other status protected under applicable local, state or federal law.

AZAD Technology Partners takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified employees and applicants who are disabled, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, Armed Forces services medal veterans, and other protected veterans.

AZAD Technology Partners is a Certified Minority Owned Business and OFCCP compliant.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract, Temporary

Pay: $50.00 - $55.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Vision insurance

Experience level:

• 1 year
• 2 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Application Question(s):

• Are you a U.S. citizen?

Ability to Relocate:

• Plano, TX: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person