Business Analyst

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.