Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.
Your Role And Responsibilities
As a seasoned Business Analyst, you will leverage your expertise to drive business solutions and excel in requirement gathering, analysis, and documentation. With a strong understanding of the SDLC, you will effectively manage stakeholders and users while facilitating requirement workshops. Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Requirement Gathering and Analysis: Gather and analyze business requirements through stakeholder engagement, requirement workshops, and process mapping to ensure clear understanding of business needs.
- Impact and Gap Analysis: Conduct thorough impact and gap analysis to identify potential risks and opportunities, and develop mitigation strategies to address them.
- Stakeholder Management: Manage stakeholders and users through effective communication, ensuring their needs are met and expectations are managed throughout the project lifecycle.
- Solution Guidance: Guide technical and vendor teams by providing clear business requirements and process maps to ensure solutions meet business needs.
- Communication and Liaison: Articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively to liaison between lines of business and the development team, ensuring seamless collaboration and solution delivery.
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- SDLC Understanding: Experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and its application in managing business requirements and stakeholder expectations.
- Requirement Analysis: Experience in gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements through stakeholder engagement, requirement workshops, and process mapping.
- Impact and Gap Analysis: Experience in conducting thorough impact and gap analysis to identify potential risks and opportunities, and developing mitigation strategies to address them.
- Process Mapping: Experience in creating process maps to guide technical and vendor teams in delivering solutions that meet business needs.
- Stakeholder Management: Experience in managing stakeholders and users through effective communication, ensuring their needs are met and expectations are managed throughout the project lifecycle.
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
- Use Case Mapping: Experience with process and use case mapping to analyze business cases and guide technical and vendor teams in delivering solutions that meet business needs.
- Business Case Analysis: Experience analyzing business cases to identify opportunities for improvement and guide stakeholders in making informed decisions.
- Workshop Facilitation: Experience facilitating requirement workshops to gather and analyze business requirements through stakeholder engagement and process mapping.
