Associate Principal, Business Analysis - Kafka

Act as a partner to both the business and the technology teams.

Identify scope gaps and missing requirements by acquiring an in-depth understanding of current state (i.e., legacy system) and future state.

Use critical thinking to observe potential risks and present solution options

Work cross-functionally to analyze and define key stakeholder business needs.

Perform requirements analysis, story decomposition, system integration analysis, and data flow design.

Regularly engage in agile activities including sprint planning and backlog grooming. Act as an advisor to the Product owner regarding next steps and approvals.

Build and support other BSAs to build to high quality user stories and acceptance criteria; work with scrum team to refine user stories.

Drive requirement, design, data results support for integration of across teams and pillars with end-to-end application experience.

Support development of user interface requirements and design by collaborating with UI/UX tools and teams.

Support or develop test plans and test cases; participate in test results verification.

Looking for a candidate that they came up technical and then got into a BA product development role.

Kafka or messaging is a MUST.

Splunk is a MUST.

Working on multiple projects simultaneously., Experience in Agile and software development.

7+ years of experience in business system analysis or related experience

Preferred business experience in clearinghouse activities.

Flexibility working with remote teams in alternate time zones.

Self-motivated and self-starting; working with little supervision and picking up new and unfamiliar concepts.

Experience using Confluence and Jira.

Proficient in process modeling tools such as Visio.

Technical Skills:

Experience in event driven applications, streaming and batch analytics technologies.

Experience in cloud technologies; experience working with AWS a plus.

Experience in different data management and visualization tools (SQL, Kafka Protobuf serialization, Starburst Trino, Swagger, Tableau, Alteryx, etc.)

Experience and/or vested interest in complex data analytics supported by python and R.

Education and/or Experience:

Bachelor s degree required. MBA/MS is a plus.

Certificates or Licenses:

CCBA, CBAP, AAC, and/or any related certification is a plus.