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**Description**Receives a moderate level of guidance and direction.
Solves a range of moderately complex problems.
Leads projects of limited scope and portions of larger projects.
Provides informal guidance to team members with less experience.
Contributes to department objectives and outcomes as guided.
**Accountabilities**- Plans and facilitates workshops with a variety of techniques to identify and validate requirements with IT and business stakeholders.- Delivers high-quality artifacts such as business process models, use cases, user stories, context diagrams, business rules, data dictionaries, requirement packages, user interface models/mock-ups, opportunity summary presentations, executive summaries, requirements management plans, technical specifications, BA work plans, and others as needed.- Manages and communicates requirements throughout the software development lifecycle, including requirements prioritization and conflict resolution.- Facilitates enterprise analysis opportunity activities to identify business needs or problems, defines the nature of a solution that meets that need, and justifies the investment necessary to deliver a complete solution, including business architecture definition, identification of the work breakdown structure (WBS) and capital/operational cost estimations for the proposed solutions.- Validates solutions to ensure they meet the business requirements and helps determine the most appropriate actions to address problems identified through project testing or other assessment efforts.
Evaluates functioning solution performance to understand the value it delivers and identify opportunities for improvement, including how a solution is actually used after it is deployed, and assessing the effect it has had, both positive and negative.- Exemplifies KCS Vision, Values, and Culture in each and every interaction with team, clients, and stakeholders.
**Required**- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college, preferably in a job related major field of study- Minimum two (2) years of relevant professional experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience- IIBA CCBA or equivalent Business Analysis certification**Preferred**- KCS business experience is preferred.
**Working Conditions**- This position has a regular full time schedule with a normal work week of Monday through Friday.
There may be a need for occasional work after hours or weekends.- This position may require mínimal travel up to 10% of the time.
**We Offer**- Complete health and welfare benefits package- Competitive salary- Incentive plan- Vacation plan**EEO Statement**We value a culturally diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer while providing reasonable accommodations for all employees