Business Analyst @ St. Louis, MO - 12 Months with EXT - Remote Role ONLY ON W2

Remote Role ONLY ON W2VISA: NO CPT,OPT,H1-B

Position : Business Analyst Location : MO - Remote Duration : 12 Months with EXT

The IT Business Analyst is responsible for developing, interpreting, reviewing, validating, documenting, and maintaining business and functional requirements. This position evaluates requests to determine feasibility, researches and identifies options, and recommends solutions that best serve business needs. The Business Analyst also presents information and tracks and responds to questions related to business standards. In addition, this position performs key administrative duties while searching for continuous improvement potential. The IT Business Analyst serves as the primary interface between NetOps and our peer teams within IT. Qualifications:Required Skills, Competencies, Experience• Must be committed to incorporating security into all decisions and daily job responsibilities.• 2+ years of business analysis experience with exposure to various methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, etc.)• Proven track record of taking initiative and driving a plan effectively• Ability to effectively manage time and multi-task• Ability to communicate effectively across various audiences including IT teams, business teams and vendors.• Ability to lead meetings such as Daily Stand-up, Retros, and issue analysis calls• Display leadership and team centric skills• Display strong problem solving and IT technical skills• Excellent at building and maintaining relationships across IT and business partners• Must have a professional attitude, a strong desire and ability to take ownership, the ability to provide high quality customer service, and a willingness to expend additionaleffort when necessary or required• Secure in independent judgment and autonomous decision making• Experience preparing and delivering informal and formal presentations to own team, department, other IT teams, senior leadership, and business partners• Ability to judge between what is requested and what is feasible given the parameters of the technology and the project timeline• Experience assisting with the development of standards, processes, and procedures for the department• Ability to provide continuous improvements for applications, processes, and team• Strong working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, and ServiceNow Preferred Skills, Competencies, Experience• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred• Previous Network Operations/Network Engineering experience is a plus• Experience in project management tools such as MS Project, MS Teams, PPT, Excel• Experience in large-scale enterprise applications and processes is preferred• Experience creating detailed reporting and dashboards within ServiceNow and/or Jira is preferred