Business Analyst
The Woodlands, TX, US, 77380
Business Analyst
Role Overview
Western Midstream is looking for a Business analyst to identify, define and document business processes and software requirements to be developed as software. In your new position, you will serve as a liaison between business and IT teams by facilitating communication and determining software objectives that align with stated and unstated business needs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Obtain a deep understanding of relevant business area(s) to be able to recommend solutions and build high-quality requirements.
- Use a variety of techniques to understand business requirements, such as interviews, workshops, surveys, site visits, and storyboards.
- Shape business requirements by making recommendations and suggesting alternatives to proposed solutions.
- Understand technical options, limitations, costs, and risks. Communicate tradeoffs to business partners and work with them to shape requirements accordingly.
- Translate conceptual user requirements into clear, detailed functional requirements.
- Work with business and delivery teams to prioritize requirements.
- Help resolve competing priorities between stakeholder groups by facilitating stakeholder discussions and escalate issues where appropriate.
- Manage requirements scoping throughout the delivery process.
- Create artifacts as appropriate, including business case documentation, scope documentation, and process flows.
- Support delivery teams as they develop, test, and deploy solutions.
- Review delivery team output to ensure requirements are correctly interpreted; define and execute test cases.
- Document current processes and models to understand inefficiencies or gaps.
- Identify and assist in prioritizing opportunities to streamline business processes.
Skills and Competencies:
- Experience determining the explicit and implicit needs and requirements of various stakeholders.
- Ability to quickly learn the objectives, structures, operations and policies of a new business area.
- Strong problem resolution, negotiation, and influencing skills.
- Demonstrated ability to engage both developers and business partners to achieve target outcomes.
- Proven interpersonal skills and an ability to influence senior leaders and peers.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
- Experience creating documentation such as business case documentation or business requirements summaries.
- Adaptability and a willingness to learn new skills.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent years of experience).
- 3 - 5 years of experience in business analysis.
- Background in Oil & Gas or other real-time, technical, or Engineering environment is preferred.
- Business analysis certification (e.g. CBAP) is preferred.
Relocation:
This position is not eligible for relocation.
Travel Requirements:
Minimum travel of 5% will be required.
Work Schedule:
This position will work 9 hours Monday – Thursday and 4 hours on Friday. The position will rotate weekly between working from home and the office.
Western Midstream does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role.
Nearest Major Market: Houston