Business Analyst-ADM

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. Youâ€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, youâ€ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. Youâ€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 with ADM expertise, you will leverage your strong understanding and working experience with the SDLC to drive business outcomes. You will excel in requirement gathering, analysis, and documentation, utilizing your exceptional communication and analytical skills to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Requirement Gathering and Analysis: Gather and analyze requirements from stakeholders, facilitating workshops to ensure clear understanding of business needs. You will utilize your impact analysis and gap analysis abilities to identify potential issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Stakeholder Management: Effectively manage stakeholders and users, ensuring their needs are met and expectations are set. You will liaise between lines of business and the development team, providing clear and concise communication.
• Process and Use Case Mapping: Analyze business cases and create process and use case maps to guide technical and vendor teams. Your expertise will enable the development of effective solutions that meet business requirements.
• Solution Guidance: Guide technical and vendor teams in the development of solutions, ensuring alignment with business requirements and stakeholder expectations.
• Communication and Collaboration: Articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively, collaborating with stakeholders and teams to drive business outcomes.

This role can be performed from anywhere in the United States of America.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• SDLC Understanding and Experience: Deep expertise in working with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is essential, with a strong understanding of its application in driving business outcomes.
• Requirement Gathering and Analysis Expertise: Experience with requirement gathering, analysis, and documentation, including facilitating workshops and utilizing impact analysis and gap analysis abilities to identify potential issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Stakeholder Management and Liaison: Experience in effectively managing stakeholders and users, ensuring their needs are met and expectations are set, and liaising between lines of business and the development team.
• Process and Use Case Mapping Skills: Experience with analyzing business cases and creating process and use case maps to guide technical and vendor teams in developing effective solutions that meet business requirements.
• Complex Communication: Deep expertise in articulating complex ideas clearly and persuasively, with the ability to collaborate with stakeholders and teams to drive business outcomes.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Strong Analytical Skills: Deep expertise in analyzing complex business cases, identifying areas for improvement, and developing effective solutions that meet business requirements.
• Excellent Communication Abilities: Experience in articulating complex ideas clearly and persuasively, with the ability to collaborate with stakeholders and teams to drive business outcomes.
• SDLC Methodologies: Experience with various SDLC methodologies, leveraging this knowledge to drive business outcomes and ensure effective solution development.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.