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Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country and we move America's workforce toward the future. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority and the success of our railroad is the result of our employees. Are you ready to join our team? SUMMARY: The Principal Business Analyst HRIS is a key member of the Hire2Retire team which is part of the Information Technology organization. The role is a subject matter expert aligned to the Human Resources (HR) business partner group and will play a pivotal lead role in HR's move to a cloud based human resources information system (HRIS) by implementing SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. The role serves as the primary liaison between the HR, vendors, internal implementation teams and other stakeholders. Serves as a subject matter expert on a collaborative team. The Principal BSA collaborates closely with business partners to identify improvement opportunities that can be realized through technology solutions and leads activities to define, analyze and document associated requirements. The role assists in driving design, development, enhancement and testing of complex IT solutions and takes a lead role in the requirements and testing phases. The Principal BSA takes initiative and collaborates to resolve urgent problems and acts with limited authority based upon subject matter expertise. Directs, mentors and coaches lower-level analysts leading by example with process design and improvements. Provides appropriate platform knowledge that is leveraged throughout the system development life cycle (SDLC), including business requirements, functional specification, testing, deployment, and support hand-off. May be allocated to one or more enterprise project initiatives of moderate to high complexity. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:- Partner closely with HR to identify, enhance and implement efficient business processes that leverage system automations and optimize employee experience and provide business leaders with the data needed to make informed decisions.
- Leads requirements gathering, analysis and documentation including business/functional requirements, use cases, user stories, business rules, data dictionaries, and other information or processes required to describe system changes supporting design, development, QA, UAT, RFI/RFP, enterprise architecture planning, and technical specifications.
- Ability to gather requirements and lead testing efforts to make an impact in advancing business objectives.
- Ability to acquire in-depth knowledge of existing business processes and systems, documenting processes as needed.
- Collaborates with business and IT subject matter experts to facilitate development of business cases and cost/benefit or return on investment analysis to justify IT initiatives/projects.
- Leads process mapping sessions with business subject matter experts to document as-is and to-be processes, narratives, gap analysis and roadmaps.
- Leads planning sessions related to projects or new technologies to implement process improvement within the functional area.
- Devises and documents testing approaches and test plans, and sequences end-to-end testing to ensure that the systems work as expected during enhancements.
- Leads the development of test plans, test cases, user stories, use cases, and traceability matrix.
- Facilitates User Acceptance Testing including data setup, environment setup, scheduling, training, etc.
- Advises or provides input to other technical disciplines on design, development, enhancement, and testing of assigned information technology systems.
- Consults with business stakeholders and IT service owners to determine the role of the IT system in an organization prior to design or enhancement activities to assess functional change.
- Establishes liaison relationship with business partners and IT departments in order to provide process solutions to meet user needs.
- Researches and recommends emerging technologies that could increase the organization's efficiency and effectiveness.
- Investigates, resolves, and escalates problems. Monitors and analyzes metrics to ensure customer satisfaction and vendor performance.
- May lead small to medium sized projects, serving in a Project Manager capacity in addition to a BSA role.
- May assist in collaborating with the business to prioritize business technology initiatives as input to the annual planning and budgeting process.
- Experience with leading HCM/HRIS applications is required.
- 7 years required (9 years preferred) experience as a Business or IT Systems Analyst in the Human Resources area.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Management, Systems Engineering or other related field plus 7+ years relevant (business/systems analyst) work experience or 11+ years relevant work experience or in subject matter expert (business analysis) capacity required to satisfy education and experience requirements.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, and the capability to present confidently at various levels from project teams to Executive leadership.
- Strong interpersonal and team-building skills, works well with others in an integrated team environment, and must be self-motivated.
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Broad knowledge of multiple computer environments, platforms and technologies and in-depth knowledge of the enterprise's products.
- Extensive experience and proven track record facilitating, defining and documenting business process maps (swim lane format preferred), business/functional requirements, use cases, user stories, technical specifications, test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test results.
- Skill in effectively serving as a primary point of contact between IT technical staff and the enterprise's service owners and business stakeholders.
- Broad knowledge and experience with a variety of collaboration, requirements, testing and support methodologies.
- Experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies (SCRUM/SAFE) and techniques.
- Ability to create and document Amtrak's Project Life Cycle Management (PLM) artifacts and key process steps.
- Ability to translate technical issues to non-technical audiences.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office 365 including Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Project, and Visio.
- Advanced skills with BA tool sets including Jira and Confluence
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, and the capability to present confidently at various levels from project teams to Executive leadership.
- Individual with Self-motivation, curiosity, and a genuine intention to make a difference.
- Business Analysis certification from IIBA, IQBBA or PMI (PBA, CBAP or equivalent).
- Experience with Lean, Six Sigma or other process improvement methodologies.
- Experience in transportation industry.
- Experience with SAP HCM or Success Factors Employee Central/other modules
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