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Top Skills You Need to Be a Successful System Business Analyst

BY: admin | May 2, 2019


 

If you work as a system business analyst, or if you are interested in becoming one, you need to know what skills are most important to build a successful career. As a system business analyst, your focus is on the requirements that specify how a business system supports or enables work activities in a business process and the user roles performing the work activities. For instance, if the solution to a business problem involves application software, you work with application software experts to define the business rules the solution needs to support. Read on to learn about other requirements needed to excel as a system business analyst.

 

Educational Background

To work as a system business analyst, you need a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field. Experience in business and computer programming is preferred. Practical experience and leadership skills are needed to move into management roles.

 

Business Domain Knowledge

Succeeding as a system business analyst means having strong business domain knowledge. As industries such as financial services, healthcare and telecommunications, and business functions such as HR, customer billing and procurement continue to evolve and increase in complexity, you need to stay informed on current trends, nuances and related issues. Such extensive knowledge prepares you to engage with domain and functional subject matter experts using technical jargon to complete your work.

 

Technology Recommendations

As a system business analyst, you review information and make assessments to provide a company with technology recommendations. You focus on the organization’s technological needs and benefits along with the financial implications of upgrading their systems. Then, you install the software and equipment, test the software and hardware installed, write instructions on how to use the system and teach employees how to use it.

 

Analysis Tools

System business analysts use business system models and diagrams to spec out a system design. Examples include using activity diagrams, use cases, user stories, entity relationship diagrams and state transition diagrams. Your design includes a recommendation on how to implement the requirement into code. You may evaluate code, review scripting and/or modify code. Or, you could present the design considerations to software architects and developers who transform the business requirements into code. You will also pinpoint where changes need to be made and incorporate new data into the project.

 

Stakeholder Engagement

In your role as a system business analyst, you need to deeply engage with highly sophisticated stakeholders, system users and the technical community, including solution architects, developers, DBAs and more. You facilitate workshops, meetings, interviews and more to translate technical issues, verify and explain technical/architectural complexities in language your audience understands, and answer questions in a clear manner.

 

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