LRS has prospered for over 30 years because our corporate philosophy embraces honest, ethical and hard-working people. If that describes your approach to IT consulting, we need to talk! LRS Consulting Services is seeking a Business Analyst for a long-term contract opportunity with our client in the west suburbs of Chicago, IL!

LRS Consulting Services has been delivering the highest quality consultants to our clients since 1979. We've built a solid reputation for dealing with our clients and our consultants with honesty, integrity, and respect. We work hard every day to maintain that reputation, and we're very interested in candidates who can help us. If you're that candidate, this opportunity is made for you!

The Business Analyst will:

• Work with the Business to identify requirements and think critically about what will make it successful; write user stories that effectively communicate the Business’ requirements and that are easily consumed by software development teams.
• Analyze application back-end and API integrations, data flows and manipulations, and EDI mappings.
• Attend and lead Business stakeholder meetings; provide project status reporting to management; assist with testing scenarios and validate results.
• Create deliverables such as process flows, wireframes, mockups and functional prototypes to effectively communicate design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors.
• Prepare and deliver client presentations.
• Advocate on behalf of Business to IT, and advocate on behalf of IT to Business.
• Become a Subject Matter Expert on a variety of packages and custom business.
• Go beyond just reading and understanding information, to making sense of it, and finding patterns for improvement.
• Support business applications. Troubleshoot and resolve applications issues.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in IT, statistics, computer science, mathematics, information management, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum 4 years recent experience in Business Analysis with at least 7 years relevant IT experience overall.
• Experience in all phases of software and testing lifecycles.
• Experience writing clear acceptance criteria to a testable level.
• Good understanding of relational databases, database structures and design, and data management.
• Good SQL knowledge, with experience writing investigative queries, being able to step into and understand existing queries, and a firm understanding of joins.
• Good knowledge of APIs - including preferably knowledge of JSON notation, API objects, API endpoints (incl., how they're called, and what developers need to know to write them)
• Experience leading or participating in all Agile meetings including: sprint planning, sprint grooming, review, demo, stand-up, and retrospective sessions.
• Experience working with software development tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira.
• Strong whiteboarding skills.
• Strong investigative, analytical skills, and interpersonal skills.
• Candidates must be local to the Chicago Metro area and fully COVID vaccinated and boosted
• Candidates must have permanent authorization to work in the USA for any employer.
• Corp to Corp candidates will not be considered

LRS is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants for employment will receive consideration without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, gender identity, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship status or protected veteran status