Director, Business Analysis and Business Demand An

(Job Id W378284)
Posted on 8/11/2010
Location:

Stamford, CT


Job Type:

Full Time


Salary: $115000.00 to $130000.00/year
Degree: Master
Reiger Technical Search
Job Description
Director, Business Analysis & Business Demand Analysis

This leadership position owns and actively manages the scope, requirements, and success of capital initiatives, funded by the organization in a way that mitigates delivery risks. It acts as the hub and center of all business requirements gathering, documenting, analyzing, and managing activities by the business analysis team across all such initiatives. Also responsible for determining how to bring the best of IT execution to the non-IT circles by developing key relationships, subject matter expertise, and powerful alliances built on effective communication. By working closely with product and client teams, maximize effective articulation of initiative scope and requirements and on an ongoing basis ensure sustained impact and risk evaluation. Act as the thought leader and subject matter expert to drive adoption of best practices in related definition phase activities of a typical software development lifecycle.

Qualifications and Responsibilities:

The successful candidate is a career technologist with a business outlook at the core. He or she possesses considerable experience with technology and technology projects as well as understanding the business rationale behind them in true business terms.

Demonstrate an understanding of all that can go wrong in technology projects, especially in the early definition stages as well as understanding the key elements that make technology projects successful. Responsible for bringing this understanding, experience, insight, and savvy to bear on initiatives, to give business stakeholders honest and frank insight into the realities of pursued business goals. Be responsible for framing and executing on projects in such a way as to guarantee business success.

In addition to being a technologist, provide business knowledge and expertise to positively impact the organization’s profitability and success. Partner with business teams is to proactively understand the metrics and drivers for their success and the financials they are accountable for. Responsible for the financials and time frames around IT’s commitments to initiatives.

Coach, direct, mentor, and develop a team of business analysts of the highest caliber, experience, talent, and expertise and ensure their in depth understanding of Company’s businesses and systems.

With an understanding of all capital program initiatives provide insight from other projects, subject areas, and technologies to reap execution efficiencies across the portfolio. Collaborate and coordinate within IT/operations to assure that key initiatives get appropriate oversight of the IT/operations leaders, the application development teams, and the program management teams.

Working together with the program managers, be accountable for ensuring that Company is fully leveraging and exploiting the investments being made in strategic technologies and also prudently throttling our investments in non-strategic technology initiatives. Jointly responsible for assuring that Company’s capital investments are best allocated to serve the compelling enterprise needs.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Management, Computer Sciences, or equivalent combination of education and work experience in a related field. Master's Degree preferred.
• Ten or more years in a computer related field, with at least eight in business facing capacity.
• A minimum of six years of related experience in e-business and systems analysis and web application development, preferably with a top-notch consulting firm or high-performing corporate IT department.
• Experience in managing distributed software development programs, where business units are located away from development centers.
• Broad understanding of web technologies such as application servers, web servers, XML, .NET, web services, search/reporting/content management/B2B packaged solutions, enterprise architectures, design pattern, etc.
• Solid experience and comfort in dealing with senior management and capable of building ongoing rapport at all levels.
• Demonstrated experience with communicating and presenting to executives in a clear and concise manner.
• Demonstrated ability to learn business processes, operations, and apply technical solutions.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving skills, and an aptitude for numbers.
• Demonstrated success in managing, coaching, mentoring, and developing direct reports.
• Strong interpersonal and project management skills.
• A strategic thinker who can also act tactically, when called for.
• High personal credibility and integrity.
• Strong ability to persuade and influence others through collaboration.
• Ability to work and effectively prioritize in a highly dynamic work environment.