Lead HR Systems Business Analyst
$107,060–$159,390 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Lead day-to-day leadership and direction for analysts and project support resources while coaching team members on requirements quality, stakeholder management, and solution design. Conduct structured walkthroughs of requirements with business and project teams to balance value, operational impact, risk, and technical feasibility, identifying scalable solutions over one-off fixes. Document client business needs as user stories, create business and technical diagrams, and assist in prioritizing work within iterations. Evaluate new solutions for feasibility, communicate potential issues, and generate defect and enhancement items for the backlog. Contribute to roadmap planning and release preparation while collaborating with software engineers on mutual understanding.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS), or equivalent experience
- 8+ Years of IT-related experience, such as Business Analysis, Data Analysis
- Lead an Agile/Iterative project team in the role of business analyst
- Workday Core HCM
- Workday Benefits
- Workday Reporting
- Workday Security
- Basic SQL query writing skills and other technical acumen
- Requirements management tool experience (Azure DevOps or others)
Desired Qualifications
- Advanced oral and written communication skills demonstrating ability to share and impart knowledge
- Advanced ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines
- Advanced investigative, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Advanced data analysis skill
- Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into viable/accepted solutions
- Advanced ability to set goals and handle multiple tasks, clients, and projects simultaneously
- Advanced ability to appropriately balance priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Advanced skills in customer relationship management and change management
- Advanced negotiating and persuasion skills
- Ability to operate independently and to bring structure to ambiguity
- Ability to quickly adapt to new methods, work under tight deadlines and stressful conditions
- Ability to work well within a team environment and participate in department/team projects
- Advanced interpersonal skills
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