Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Act as the liaison between the business and Core Platform Engineering to perform the following in support of an initiative to replace our Enterprise network infrastructure and routing strategy: 

• Drive, Elicit, and Prioritize Business Requirements to understand the true business requirements and overall business need 

• Own the end to end process of drafting the formal business requirements document, present walk though of the requirements and obtain sign off from stakeholders 

• Demonstrates high competency in leading efforts for elicitation, validation and prioritization of user and functional requirements 

• Proven ability to develop Use Cases, User Stories and Test Scripts in conjunction with QA 

• Documents and validates business and functional requirements to the project scope. 

• Overall responsibility for UAT activities which includes supporting QA team by coordinating users during the process and reviewing test scripts against the traceability matrix (created by the Business Analyst) 

• High level IT understanding to communicate requirements effectively between the Business Stakeholders and IT. 

• Must have previous experience in a BA role gathering requirements for significant network upgrade projects 

Soft Skills 

• Excellent Verbal and Written communication style and experience. 

• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels within Biogen and can understand the audience and the appropriate communication methodology for each 

• Comfortable leading meetings and driving the purpose of the meeting with a goal minded approach.

• Past experience with Enterprise network infrastructure projects is a plus. 

• Experience with formal business requirements gathering tools. Preferably Blueprint Requirements Center. 

• Working knowledge of MS Outlook, Lync, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, and Project. 

Experience Requirement:

• Minimum of 5 – 8 years of experience as a business analyst, with expert command of business analysis techniques, methodologies and tools. 

• CBAP certification is a plus, but not required.