Business Analyst, Network Topology

Job Description:
This position is responsible for gathering, analysing, and creating comprehensive work products documenting requirements, including validation and traceability, for existing and new applications supporting various business channels. This position understands how organizations function to accomplish their purpose, and defines capabilities an organization requires to provide a service or meet their goals. This position facilitates communication between organizational units to align the needs of business units in order to create requirement work products for solution providers. This role plans, directs and completes the analysis of business problems to be solved or product/services to be developed for delivery. This role provides technical assistance in identifying, evaluating and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet user requirements. This role assesses system impacts, provides gap and process analysis as well as cost/benefit analysis for system or product/service related initiatives. Acts as a liaison between the user community and internal IT resources. SKILLS:

Minimum Required Skills/Competencies:
Strong expertise in automation of data retrieval via MML commands in OSSs and network elements including Unix and SSH knowledge.
(Preferred) Strong expertise on Auto discovery including implementation experience of any leading products in the space
Decent exposure to wireless networks, impacted geography of various network elements, services provided by various network elements including circuit (MSS, MGW), IMS core and packet core (MME, SGSN, GGSN) networks.
Exposure to Network Topology Modeling experience including exposure to TMF SID, UCMDB and in general configuration management domain.
Exposure to model network relationships including redundancy, pool and aliasing at NE, Element and Network Management layers.
(Preferred) Experience in solutions that demonstrate drill down concepts to enable better RCA and accurate information for network outages
Knowledge in near Real Time solutions for viewing network topology
Knowledge in Microsoft SQL
Minimum of 8+ years of systems analysis experience with understanding strategic business information systems
Solid understanding of best practice principles and has applied practice; demonstrated ability to apply BABOK principles required.
Solid understanding of multiple system development life cycle mythologies
Proven ability to effectively apply techniques which consists of textual formats, modals and diagrams.
Solid understanding of business process and system process within multiple knowledge areas
Excellent written and oral communication skills; effectively communication with all employee levels and levels of management.
Proven experience with identifying and resolving requirement impacting issues, working with members of project management team and business SME's/executives to develop and implement viable solutions.
Demonstrated track record of strong consulting skills and experience to bridge the gap between technology and business operations to enable organizations to make effective decisions.
Certificate in Business Systems Analysis (preferably in a quantitative discipline) or equivalent work experience
Technical writing skills producing clear and unambiguous deliverables
Must be proficient and have experience using MS Office (Excel, Work, PowerPoint) and Visio

Preferred skills:
8+ years experience in software development, software design or business process design and implementation preferred -8 + years experience in telecommunications industry preferred -8 + years experience with a formal SDLC preferred