Business Analyst / Senior Business Analyst (Software Applications)

About Us

Ameren is a leader in the energy industry, and our transformation toward more clean, renewable energy is also transforming other industries and infrastructure in our communities. As a regional company serving local customers, we not only serve our communities, we're a part of them. This isn't just a job. At Ameren, we invest in you, so you can power the quality of life you want.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is one of the core values that guides us in everything we do. We are committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that brings diverse perspectives to every area of our business.

Our benefits include:

• Medical coverage on date of hire
• 100% employer paid cash balance pension plan
• 401(k) with company match fully vested on date of hire
• Minimum of 15 days paid vacation and 12 paid holidays
• Paid parentalleave and family caregiver leave

About Ameren Transmission

Ameren Transmission is dedicated to planning, constructing and safely operating over 8,000 transmission miles across a variety of energy markets. We explore opportunities and develop projects that will enhance reliability, improve system performance and increase access to more diverse generation sources for customers across the country.

About The Position

• Acts as a liaison between development groups and business units for the development and implementation of new systems and enhancement of existing systems

• Evaluates new applications and identifies systems requirements

• Evaluates new digital developments and evolving business requirements and recommends appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems

Key responsibilities include:

• Works with other teams to interview stakeholders and elicit basic to moderate business requirements

• Assists facilitation of meetings to build deep understanding of functional business and Digital areas (e.g., customer, field operations) to understand business requirements

• Analyzes process/system changes, with supervision, to ensure design changes meet business requirements

• Develops experience with drawing process maps and using business process modeling techniques

• Manages overall catalogue of process flows for small to medium complexity projects

• Analyzes fairly complex data for projects with little to no supervision

• Performs QA against specifications

• Identifies issues with the quality and performance of products, services, solutions or processes and proposes improvements

• Supports small to medium complexity projects with some degree of supervision, including tracking issues and managing action items

• Appropriately documents knowledge and shares lessons learned for medium complexity projects

• Assists with BA activities needed on agile scrum teams; displays understanding of agile methodology

• Analyzes, identifies, and directs solutions to eliminate problems, improve user effectiveness, and improve system accuracy

• Comes up with ideas and insights to share with senior business analysts that will optimize business results

• Acts as a liaison between business stakeholders and vendors to ensure successful implementation and support of project efforts

• Works closely with the business and software engineers to gain understanding of client's technical requirements, provide feedback and communicate changes

• Understands the Digital organization's objectives, and the impact on own project; contributes to development of new technology integration and enablement plans

• Works in an agile environment and engages in development practices such as XP and test-driven development

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required, preferably in mathematics, computer science, or business

• Will consider candidates without a degree if they have shown/demonstrated having 2+ additional years of equivalent, relevant experience.

• 2+ years of experience working with digital related systems/projects required. Business Analyst experience is required

• One or more years of experience in a customer service oriented and/or IT related field required

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working in an Oracle Primavera Suite environment with a specific focus on Unifier

• Working in a team environment using an Agile methodology

• Ability to perform ETL development

• Accomplished in presenting technical information

• Extensive experience performing data analysis and integrations

In addition to the above qualifications, the successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Creative self-starter with strong interpersonal skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills required

• Proven analytical skills, ability to synthesize unstructured information to support decision-making, well-organized and applies robust time-management skills

Additional Information:

Ameren's selection process includes a series of interviews and may include candidate testing and/or an individual aptitude or skill-based assessment. Specific details will be provided to qualified candidates.

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If end date is listed, the posting will come down at 12:00 am on that date:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, military service or status, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other class, trait, or status protected by law.