Business Systems Analyst III

WHY CHOOSE ECRI? ECRI is an inspiring place to work. We share a common mission to help healthcare organizations make smart, compassionate, and ethical decisions for patients. Consider these additional benefits of joining the ECRI team: Industry leadership: We have a long history and proven reputation in patient safety and medical technology research. On-the-job-learning: You will have the opportunity to work with specialists across medical science, patient care, healthcare management, and technology. Comprehensive healthcare benefits: We offer medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability coverage. Retirement Savings: Our employees can participate in an employer-matching 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan. Additional benefits: ECRI offers additional benefits to our employees, including paid time off and holiday pay, paid leave for parents, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, access to LinkedIn Learning, and other voluntary benefit programs (e.g. accident insurance, identify theft insurance, flexible spending accounts). Volunteer Program: ECRI Cares, our employee volunteer program, provides a framework for us to work together and make a difference in the lives of others. All employees are provided 16 hours annually of paid time to volunteer at preapproved ECRI Cares charities during normal business hours. ABOUT ECRI At ECRI, our passion for safe, effective, and efficient care is ingrained into the fabric of who we are and why we are here. For more than 50 years, the people of ECRI have been unyielding in their work to protect patients from unsafe and ineffective medical technologies and practices. Now, with the acquisition of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), we have created one of the largest healthcare quality and safety entities in the world. As a non-profit, independent organization, we utilize an unbiased, evidence-based approach to develop guidance, and maintain our principles of integrity and transparent work. Our ethical standards have led us to adopt the industry's strictest conflict-of-interest policies, and they are why tens of thousands of healthcare leaders worldwide rely on ECRI to guide their clinical, operational, and strategic decisions across all sites of care. The Most Trusted Voice in Healthcare ECRI is proud to serve the healthcare industry, from providers and insurers to government agencies, and medical associations. Our areas of focus include: Patient Safety: empowering leaders to eliminate patient harm through the dissemination of best practices, guidance, benchmarking, and recommendations. Evidence-Based Medicine: providing clinical evidence to inform and support decisions on the effectiveness of medical technologies, procedures, genetic tests, and clinical practice guidelines. Technology Decision Support: arming hospital systems with unbiased insights, so they can optimize their supply chain. ECRI is the only organization worldwide to conduct independent medical device evaluations, with labs located in North America and Asia Pacific. ECRI is designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a federally certified Patient Safety Organization by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. At ECRI, our passion for the truth drives us to go further and dig deeper in our pursuit to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare globally. The success of our organization relies on the kind of creative thinking that can only result from a diverse team of individuals. ECRI is proud to be an employer of choice with an inclusive environment for all employees. As part of this goal and in compliance with various laws and regulations, ECRI provides reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees. It's what makes ECRI unique, and why we are the most trusted voice in healthcare. POSITION SUMMARY Support ECRI's mission of advancing effective evidence-based healthcare worldwide while working alongside IT Development Managers, teams of ECRI Platform & Software Engineers, and our respected and accomplished business partners. The Business Systems Analyst III (BSA) facilitates working sessions between technical, the business stakeholders and the development team to create low, medium, and high complexity stories and acceptance criteria to support the development of high-quality desktop, browser-based and native mobile applications across multiple projects used by ECRI business users and thousands of organizations in the USA and worldwide. Benefit from a healthy work-life balance while staying on the leading edge of technology and thriving in an innovative startup-like culture minus the risk. Sleep well knowing you are helping achieve a world where safe, high-quality healthcare is accessible to everyone. As part of the Information Technology Team a Business System Analyst III, partners with UX Designers to clearly define and document software design and usability. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Reasonable Accommodation Statement: To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactory. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Essential Functions Statement(s): Participate on an agile team as a Business Systems Analyst III Independently leads working sessions with stakeholders to gather and document business needs and requirements. Understanding the why as well as the how. Independently creates and defines low, medium and high complexity User Stories and Acceptance Criteria that meet the business unit's needs. Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers Partner with the development team to ensure defined User Stories are reflected in the technical design and development Creates, edits, prioritizes and manages the backlog of release User Stories Develop and conduct peer reviews of the acceptance criteria to ensure that requirements are correctly interpreted. Participate in daily standup and retrospective meetings Responsible for reviewing and accepting completed User Stories Participate in Roadmap and Release planning including rough order of magnitude estimation activities. Act as a liaison between technical, business SMEs and development team to ensure full understanding of business needs. Be a recognized expert in responsible business processes. Participate in the development of new business workflows and data architecture/ design Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of the requirements to stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood. Guide and advise less-experienced Business System Analysts Partner with UX Designer to clearly define and document software design and usability. Additional Responsibilities: Other duties, as assigned. Accountability Metric(s): Requirements which meet the needs of the market as defined by the business On time high quality delivery of projects QUALIFICATIONS Experience: 5+ years Business Systems Analyst or related experience 3+ years’ experience using Agile Methodologies (Kanban, SAFe, Scrum) Applied knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle framework Experience using issue tracking tools to manage the release process Healthcare business experience preferred Highly self-motivated and directed with a keen attention to detail Experience interacting with business customers and managing expectations Excellent written, oral, interpersonal, and presentational skills Proven experience working with cross-functional and virtual teams Strong team player with ability to multi-task Education: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field or equivalent work experience Computer Skills: Proficient with Microsoft Office 365 Suite of products (e.g., Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). Proficient with use of Atlassian Jira or other issue tracking tools Proficient with use of Atlassian Confluence or other collaboration tools Certifications & Licenses: N/A PHYSICAL DEMANDS Not Applicable (N) Activity is not applicable to this position. Occasionally (O) Position required this activity up to 33% of the time (0 - 2.5 hours a day) Frequently (F) Position requires this activity from 34% - 66% of the time (2.5 - 5.25 hours a day) Constantly (C) Position Requires this actively more than 66% of the time (5.25+ hours a day) Movement: Lift/Carry: Stand O 10 lbs or less O Walk F 11-20 lbs N Sit C 21-50 lbs N Manually Manipulate C 51-100 lbs N Grasp O Over 100 lbs N Reach Outward O Reach Above Shoulder N Push/Pull: Speak C 12 lbs or less N Climb N 12-25 lbs N Crawl N 26-40 lbs N Squat or Kneel N 41-100 lbs N Bend N Other Physical Requirements Vision (Near) WORK ENVIRONMENT Virtual Work Environment #LI-Remote Equal Opportunity Employer-Disability and Veteran