RePower Program: IT Business Analyst - Senior (Architecture)

At Cummins, we recognize the decision to come back into your desired career after an extended career break can be intimidating.  We value your diverse background, education, and experience and believe that we can help Power Your Potential as you make the return. 

RePower, our return-to-work program, is designed specifically for candidates like you:  people who have 5+ years of professional work experience and an employment gap of 2+ years for a variety of reasons and are now ready to return to the workforce.  The program supports re-engagement of skills – through fulfilling work assignments; training, coaching, and development; and a sense of community and networking that cohorts provide.

Our six-month, paid, Hybrid in Columbus, IN and benefitted returnship is an opportunity to use your specialist expertise, interests, and abilities on meaningful projects.  Successful participants may be eligible for full-time employment opportunities upon completion of the program

Job summary

This position partners with business functions to define, determine, analyze, document and communicate the objectives, business requirements and priorities for information systems and solutions; works with application and technical experts on the solution design, implementation, support, maintenance and enhancement of the information systems.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Assists the business to define and document what constitutes business success for small to medium size initiatives. May work as a part of a team on project definition and documentation for larger initiatives.
• Elicits, analyzes, and documents functional requirements across the five aspects (process, information, event, sociopolitical, and location), as appropriate for the initiative. May work as part of a team to gather requirements.
• Elicits, analyzes, and documents non-functional business requirements
• Conducts requirements management activities, as necessary, ensuring that the impact of changes are well understood and approved by the appropriate stakeholders.
• Assists with or conducts solution assessment and validation to ensure that functional and technical specifications meet the identified business needs
• Assists with or reviews test plans and testing methodology to mitigate risks and participates in testing the solution to ensure the solution meets functional and non-functional requirements
• Assists with problem analysis as needed. Escalates issues for additional analysis and resolution as appropriate.
• Develops positive relationships with both the business and other functions involved in downstream technical processes

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Business Need Definition - Defines the business outcome that the proposed work will provide using the Business Analysis Toolkit (modeling the five aspects and creating use cases) to justify investment of resources (people, time, finances).
• Business Analysis Planning - Identifies the activities needed to conduct business analysis considering the five business aspects, level of detail, and approach for eliciting requirements to plan for resources and techniques to document the business needs and solution characteristics.
• Requirements Elicitation - Discovers and documents functional and non-functional requirements using the Business Analysis Toolkit (modeling the five aspects and creating use cases) to effectively communicate the business needs and solution characteristics for solution design.
• Requirements Analysis - Evaluates relationships and interdependencies between requirements based upon their complexity and value to the business in order to determine feasibility and prioritization.
• Solution Assessment and Validation - Assesses the proposed solution using the requirements traceability through the life cycle of the requirements to determine if they deliver the desired business outcome.
• Solution Modeling - Creates, designs and formulates models, diagrams and documentation using industry standards, tools, version control, and build and test automation to meet business, technical, security, governance and compliance requirements.
• Solution Functional Fit Analysis - Composes and decomposes a system into its component parts using procedures, tools and work aides for the purpose of studying how well the component parts were designed, purchased and configured to interact holistically to meet business, technical, security, governance and compliance requirements.
• Business Process Design - Discovers, models, analyzes, measures and improves business processes using standards, templates, tools and methodologies to optimize business performance.
• Solution Validation Testing - Validates a configuration item change or solution using the Function's defined best practices, including the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) standards, tools and metrics, to ensure that it works as designed and meets customer requirements.
• Project Issue and Risk Management - Manages the process to identify, assess and prioritize issues and risks using recommended tools and processes to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of negative events or to maximize the realization of positive events.
• Balances stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• College, university, or equivalent degree in Information Technology, Business or a related subject required.

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Compensation and Benefits

Compensation for this role is $7,500/month (subject to applicable withholdings), plus benefits such as health and wellness while in the returnship program.

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At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law. Cummins validates right to work using E-Verify. Cummins will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.