Business Analyst - Refinery

Overview

A Business Analyst provides enduring deep domain expertise to bridge the gap between business goals and technology solutions. Using techniques such as data analysis, customer and partner interviews and workshops, they gather, refine, and define business requirements and then collaborate with technology colleagues to deliver solutions that meet both user and business needs, ensuring successful roll‑out and adoption of solutions.

• Job#: 3020593
• Job Title: Business Analyst
• Location: Blaine, WA
• Client Industry: Oil & Gas
• Duration: 6 months – contract to hire
• On site requirement: 2‑3 days/week
• Pay Rate: $45‑55/hr.

• User research:
  In collaboration with the Staff Product Manager, engage with users, observe and analyze their workflows, and extract meaningful insights about how they perform a process and interact with a product or system. This involves uncovering pain points, process mapping, pattern recognition, and connecting learnings to potential solutions.
• Requirements definition:
  Take responsibility for eliciting requirements through various techniques such as interviews, workshops, and document analysis. With assistance from the Staff Product Manager, they lead workshops to assemble and refine requirements, consider tradeoffs, and ensure a clear understanding of system constraints. Additionally, they collaborate with design teams to develop solutions that meet both business and user needs.
• Relationship management:
  Build strong relationships with commercial and technology partners at all levels within a distributed team, ensuring effective communication, alignment and collaboration. Define interactions, such as project status meetings or Discovery sessions, and then manage the schedule with participants.
• Business process change:
  Lead business process workshops to analyze and map business processes, find opportunities for process improvements, and implement changes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Data analysis:
  Analyze and model data requirements, understand data models and database design to support sophisticated datasets, and provide insights and recommendations based on data analysis to support decision‑making.
• Service delivery:
  Diagnose issues and work closely with other support teams across functions to understand defects, drive minor improvements, and document change requests clearly and concisely to bring quick resolution. Oversee overall project lifecycle.

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Good project management skills and understanding of Product Development Lifecycle.
• Ability to build positive relationships with a variety of domain experts.
• Technical understanding in areas such as data analysis and modeling, service design, and application design.

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrable experience as a Business Analyst or in a similar role.
• Nice to have:
  Basic proficiency with Palantir tools (or a willingness to learn).

Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401(k) program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a Support Linc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts.

In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on‑demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach.

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