The Regional Transportation District (RTD) operates and maintains a mass transportation system for the benefit of 2.8 million people in the Denver/Boulder metro area.

RTD provides bus and train, on-demand, paratransit, airport, and special event services. To streamline travel, RTD offers several real-time trip planning mobile and web applications that provide vehicle location and arrival time. RTD also offers various fare options including Mobile Ticketing and reloadable fare cards.

RTD is an organization made up of dedicated and qualified people doing extraordinary things to increase mobility integration throughout the metro area. Employees take great pride in the delivery of a wide array of services that help fulfill the vision of being the regional mobility integrator for metro Denver.

This position requires two days in-office at our downtown Denver office.

At Regional Transportation District (RTD), We make lives better through connections!

The Senior Requirements Business Analyst will provide business analysis expertise, experience and skills to the Information Technology and Business organizations at RTD. They will provide business analysis planning, requirements elicitation, BRD and SOW technical writing creation for project submittal, requirements lifecycle management, strategic and needs analysis on assigned projects and initiatives. In partnership with the Manager, Program Management Office, the Senior Business Analyst will assist in defining and improving the business analysis practice.

Essential

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Elicit and collaborate on requirements by preparing for elicitation, conducting elicitation, confirming results, communicating results, and managing stakeholder engagement.
• Technical documentation of requirement elicitation by writing Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Statement of Work (SOW).
• Manage the requirements life cycle by creating a requirements traceability matrix, maintain and update requirements, work with the customer to prioritize requirements, assess requirement changes and gain requirement approvals.
• Perform strategy analysis by working with the business users to analyze current state, define future state, and help define the change strategy.
• Take a structured approach to performing the business analysis function, utilizing the PMI-PBA Framework and IIBA BABOK Framework.
• Work on multiple medium to large projects.
• Provide leadership in process improvement using industry leading best practices. Help shape the vision of longer-term business requirements.
• Maintain excellent understanding of business complexities and project inter-dependencies.
• Act as a mentor and role model for PMO BA team members.

All job-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Communications or equivalent preferred.
• A minimum of eight years of experience eliciting and documenting requirements for business projects with an information technology component (software and hardware) for procurement.
• Eight years of technical writing experience writing Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Statement of Work (SOW).
• Experience working on multiple medium to large scale projects simultaneously
• IIBA CBAP certification preferred.
• Excellent and demonstrated written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Understanding of the SDLC and various software development methodologies (i.e. Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid).
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, including SharePoint.
• Ability to manage time and workload effectively which includes planning, organizing, and prioritizing with attention to details.

Or

An equivalent combination of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities.