12 Aug
Tech Business Analyst Lead (ServiceNow) - Remote
Oklahoma, Tulsa , 74145 Tulsa USA

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Job Description:This position is Remote. Candidates who reside in states that AEP has approved for remote employment will be considered based on their qualifications and their ability to adhere to local employment laws. NOTE: The selected candidate for this position will work remotely and, although the location is flexible, will require vetting and final approval prior to offer and/or start date. The following locations are not currently approved for remote employment at AEP: AK, CO, CT, DE, HI, IA, ID, KS, MA, ME, MS, ND, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OR, RI, SD, UT, VT, parts of WA, parts of CA, WY, and the US Territories. Working within Waterfall or Agile frameworks, a Business Analyst will work with a variety of disciplined focused team members all working toward a common goal of delivering value with quality and scale. Responsible for collaborating with other Job Families such within Technology and across our business partners to deliver consistent, reliable technology solutions that leverage AEP's technology standards, architectures and best practices. Independently performs advanced business and project analysis for any sized project. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS are listed below: Responsibilities include the following for any sized projects or initiatives:
  • Proven ability to work across business units and/or cross functional teams interacting with customers at all levels to successfully interpret and understand business needs and wants and translate them into easily understood technical requirements
  • Use of a variety of proto-typing techniques to validate and verify that the proposed solution will meet the business and user requirements
  • Ability to understand the design of ServiceNow Out-of-Box functions and capabilities at a detailed level including working knowledge of ServiceNow's Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
  • Ability to guide business stakeholders through agile development practices
  • Excellent organizational and communication skills
  • Able to organize analysis to understand stakeholder needs and create business case and project scope.
  • Demonstrates breadth and depth of business analysis techniques and tools for use case modeling, data modeling, and process mapping.
  • Demonstrates ability to learn new domain by advocating and collaborating with business and technical teams utilizing extensive experience in methodologies
  • Demonstrates advanced facilitation skills and process improvement skills.
  • Creates analysis work plans and estimates of analysis activities
  • Conducts workshops for requirements elicitation, creates documentation, establishes business capabilities, and ensures asset organization and refinement.
  • Proves technical aptitude utilizing querying tools and understanding relational databases.
  • Ability to provide feedback on internal database designs and identify data issues and resolutions
  • Able to understand and apply technology solutions by translating business requirements into conceptual, logical, and physical data models, and basic system configuration
  • Mentor business analysts within department/division.
  • Provide a specialized level of process redesign and support including using tools, responding to user questions, problem diagnosis, recognition and solutions for process improvements, research, troubleshooting, tracking and resolution.
  • Plan and monitor expenditures to meet organizational objectives and compliance
  • Monitor and manage assets and resources from a financial perspective.
  • Responsible for business unit relationships and overseeing, managing and leveraging the entire life cycle of information technology investments in systems for a large business unit or major corporate initiative - from defining and targeting the investment mix, to planning the portfolio structure and packaging, to creating and communicating the portfolio plan and implement actionable items to achieve results.
  • Plays a key role in the strategic planning process for the IT organization, acting as a lead advisor to the CIO, CFO, other senior business leaders, the IT leadership council, and governance committees.
  • Works with and advises these individuals and groups on how enterprise priorities link to technology investments, and the risks and benefits of specific portfolio activities and advises other Portfolio Managers.
  • Directs the IT organization and other stakeholders to develop, prioritize, and execute the information technology and business portfolio plan.
  • Analyzes portfolio performance, and drives changes in investment mix to achieve goals.
  • Proactively identifies opportunities to improve the strategic position to lower cost of ownership and provide a competitive advantage to the business.
  • May provide training and mentoring, as well as work direction, to others on the team.

Requirements

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: Education:
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business or related field of study, or relevant work experience
  • Or Associate's degree in computer science or related field of study with 2 years of relevant work experience;
  • Or High school diploma/GED with 4 years of relevant work experience.
Experience: In addition to any experience required above, 7 years of relevant work experience is required. Preferred Qualifications:
  • 10+ years IT technology experience with an emphasis as a Business Analyst
  • 8+ years experience in tools like ServiceNow
  • Strong skills in Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, etc)
  • Experience using tools like Jira and MS Project
  • Working Knowledge and hands on experience with Waterfall and Agile
  • Provide training and guidance to new department team members to facilitate Knowledge sharing and cross training
  • Provide system demos to end users
License/Certifications: ITIL, ServiceNow, Agile and Project Management certifications a plus OTHER REQUIREMENTS
  • Strong Communication Skills
Physical demand level is Sedentary

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