IT Business Analyst (SDLC) - Silencer Central

Join one of the fastest growing companies in America, recently recognized as an Inc. 5000 award-winning company with more than 400 percent growth over the past three years. Silencer Central is passionate about the compliancy, knowledge and community education in firearm sound suppression and making silencer buying simple since 2005. Apply today!

Classification: Full time; Exempt
Shift: Monday – Friday, core hours 8:30am-5:00pm

Job Summary:
At Silencer Central, we believe that Customers + Integrity = Winning. The role of the IT Business Analyst (BA) manages the business requirements for projects, or participates as part of a team on large or complex projects for a business function. The BA role works with business stakeholders to understand and analyze objectives, underlying issues and business case, and facilitate scoping and business prioritization. Investigates business needs, problems, and opportunities consulting stakeholders as appropriate. Owns and manages functional and nonfunctional business requirements, ensuring traceability across stakeholders. Analyzes requirements to ensure they are fit for purpose and adhere to business objectives and consistency, challenging positively as appropriate. Provides input to test analysts on (in particular non-functional) requirements to be covered in test case.

Essential Functions:

• Delivers written and oral communication, responds to questions and concerns, and produce specific outcomes and impact.
• Establishes and maintains productive working relationships within and outside of own area.
• Maintains a sense of urgency and a positive attitude.
• Monitors industry trends and directions and discusses possible impact on internal strategies.
• Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
• Analyze existing systems, processes, and data to identify improvement opportunities.
• Support project manager in planning, monitoring, and executing projects.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in business or a related field required
• Minimum 5 years of experience in business analysis required
• Accountability - Understanding of the importance of being accountable and ability to focus on those activities that have the greatest impact on meeting work commitments.
• Collaborating - Knowledge of collaborative techniques and ability to promote a culture of information sharing and working together to solve business problems and meet business goals.
• Communication - Understanding of the importance of insightful listening, communicating and ability to provide information and messages in a way that produces clarity and impact.
• Continuous Learning - Understanding of the rationale behind the necessity to continually learn and grow and the ability to seek performance feedback and identify approaches to improve own performance and that of others.
• Customer Focus - Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
• Industry Knowledge - Knowledge of the organization's industry group, trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations, and trendsetters; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
• Innovation - Understanding of the value of innovation and ability to develop new ideas and initiatives that improve the performance of the organization.
• Teamwork - Knowledge of the necessity and value of teamwork; experience with and ability to participate effectively as part of a team.
• Exceptional ability to position and “sell” solutions that are reasonable, actionable, and cost-effective, including the ability to properly gauge the requirements and “plug” the appropriate solution.
• Forward-thinking and resourceful to skirt red tape and ensure solutions are brought to fruition and requirements are closed properly.
• Ability to problem solve and apply methodologies such as Unified Modeling Language and Rational Unified Process, to prepare detailed specifications using case statements and related documentation
• People skills, with the ability to engage diplomatically with stakeholders and communicate changes that may not be aligned with the original expectations
• Knowledge of proper requirements specification and development, such as process/functional requirements definition methods, JAD/RAD sessions, use case development, process flow diagrams
• Working knowledge of Agile and Waterfall Methodologies

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
Salary: $70,000 - $90,000 DOE. Silencer Central offers a competitive total compensation package that includes:

• Unlimited PTO
• Company Paid Holidays
• Health insurance: Copayment Plus Plan or High Deductible Health Plan with $1500-$3000 HRA Contribution
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• LTD and STD insurance
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• EAP
• Colonial Life
• 401(k) with company match
• Employee Discount Program
• Free snacks and drinks

Apply today and join our amazing team! Our business is growing and we need motivated people to help us continue our success!