Job Description
*This position is located in Columbus, Ohio but may be eligible for remote home based as long as selected candidate is within AEP’s current operating territory (WV, VA, TN, AR, KY, TX, OH, IN, MI, OK, LA)*
Working within Waterfall or Agile frameworks, a Business Analyst will work with a variety of disciplined focused team members all working toward a common goal of delivering value with quality and scale. Responsible for collaborating with other Job Families such within Technology and across our business partners to deliver consistent, reliable technology solutions that leverage AEP’s technology standards, architectures and best practices. Independently performs advanced business and project analysis for any sized project.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS are listed below:
Responsibilities include the following for any sized projects or initiatives:
- Develop strong partnerships with business and provide proactive thought leadership in the ideation of technology services and solutions
- Assist in business case evaluations and value statements
- Work with business units and technology teams to develop project proposals and project initiation materials (including class estimates)
- Supports consulting on technology standards for implementation of business solutions/efficiencies efforts
- Works with BU stakeholders to define, analyze, design and document business processes
- Work across all areas of the organization to build portfolio planning processes
- Ensure alignment of investment plans with overall financial and resource capacity
- Understand, communicate, and manage (directly and indirectly) all technology projects impacting the portfolio
- Understand, communicate, and manage the health of the solutions (Health of the Portfolio)
- Support the Portfolio Leader in portfolio management planning activities:
- Manage project/program costs
- Monthly forecasting and other forecasting exercises
- O&M reductions
- Overall department budget processes
- Collaborate with stakeholders to lead and influence the delivery solutions and services with high quality, efficiency, and agility
- Able to organize analysis to understand stakeholder needs and create business case and project scope
- Analyze portfolio performance, and drives changes in investment mix to achieve goals
- Plan and monitor expenditures to meet organizational objectives and compliance
- Provide training and mentorship for peer planning analysts within department/organization
- Able to organize analysis to understand stakeholder needs and create business case and project scope.
- Demonstrates breadth and depth of business analysis techniques and tools for use case modeling, data modeling, and process mapping.
- Demonstrates ability to learn new domain by advocating and collaborating with business and technical teams utilizing extensive experience in methodologies
- Demonstrates advanced facilitation skills and process improvement skills.
- Creates analysis work plans and estimates of analysis activities
- Conducts workshops for requirements elicitation, creates documentation, establishes business capabilities, and ensures asset organization and refinement.
- Proves technical aptitude utilizing querying tools and understanding relational databases.
- Ability to provide feedback on internal database designs and identify data issues and resolutions
- Able to understand and apply technology solutions by translating business requirements into conceptual, logical, and physical data models, and basic system configuration
- Mentor business analysts within department/division.
- Provide a specialized level of process redesign and support including using tools, responding to user questions, problem diagnosis, recognition and solutions for process improvements, research, troubleshooting, tracking and resolution.
- Plan and monitor expenditures to meet organizational objectives and compliance
- Monitor and manage assets and resources from a financial perspective.
- Responsible for business unit relationships and overseeing, managing and leveraging the entire life cycle of information technology investments in systems for a large business unit or major corporate initiative – from defining and targeting the investment mix, to planning the portfolio structure and packaging, to creating and communicating the portfolio plan and implement actionable items to achieve results.
- Plays a key role in the strategic planning process for the IT organization, acting as a lead advisor to the CIO, CFO, other senior business leaders, the IT leadership council, and governance committees.
- Works with and advises these individuals and groups on how enterprise priorities link to technology investments, and the risks and benefits of specific portfolio activities and advises other Portfolio Managers.
- Directs the IT organization and other stakeholders to develop, prioritize, and execute the information technology and business portfolio plan.
- Analyzes portfolio performance, and drives changes in investment mix to achieve goals.
- Proactively identifies opportunities to improve the strategic position to lower cost of ownership and provide a competitive advantage to the business.
- May provide training and mentoring, as well as work direction, to others on the team.
Job Type
Full-Time
Relocation
No
Minimum Requirements
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Tech Business Analyst Sr.:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, business or related field of study;
- Or Associate’s degree in computer science or related field of study with 2 years of relevant work experience;
Job Description
*This position is located in Columbus, Ohio but may be eligible for remote home based as long as selected candidate is within AEP’s current operating territory (WV, VA, TN, AR, KY, TX, OH, IN, MI, OK, LA)*
Working within Waterfall or Agile frameworks, a Business Analyst will work with a variety of disciplined focused team members all working toward a common goal of delivering value with quality and scale. Responsible for collaborating with other Job Families such within Technology and across our business partners to deliver consistent, reliable technology solutions that leverage AEP’s technology standards, architectures and best practices. Independently performs advanced business and project analysis for any sized project.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS are listed below:
Responsibilities include the following for any sized projects or initiatives:
- Develop strong partnerships with business and provide proactive thought leadership in the ideation of technology services and solutions
- Assist in business case evaluations and value statements
- Work with business units and technology teams to develop project proposals and project initiation materials (including class estimates)
- Supports consulting on technology standards for implementation of business solutions/efficiencies efforts
- Works with BU stakeholders to define, analyze, design and document business processes
- Work across all areas of the organization to build portfolio planning processes
- Ensure alignment of investment plans with overall financial and resource capacity
- Understand, communicate, and manage (directly and indirectly) all technology projects impacting the portfolio
- Understand, communicate, and manage the health of the solutions (Health of the Portfolio)
- Support the Portfolio Leader in portfolio management planning activities:
- Manage project/program costs
- Monthly forecasting and other forecasting exercises
- O&M reductions
- Overall department budget processes
- Collaborate with stakeholders to lead and influence the delivery solutions and services with high quality, efficiency, and agility
- Able to organize analysis to understand stakeholder needs and create business case and project scope
- Analyze portfolio performance, and drives changes in investment mix to achieve goals
- Plan and monitor expenditures to meet organizational objectives and compliance
- Provide training and mentorship for peer planning analysts within department/organization
- Able to organize analysis to understand stakeholder needs and create business case and project scope.
- Demonstrates breadth and depth of business analysis techniques and tools for use case modeling, data modeling, and process mapping.
- Demonstrates ability to learn new domain by advocating and collaborating with business and technical teams utilizing extensive experience in methodologies
- Demonstrates advanced facilitation skills and process improvement skills.
- Creates analysis work plans and estimates of analysis activities
- Conducts workshops for requirements elicitation, creates documentation, establishes business capabilities, and ensures asset organization and refinement.
- Proves technical aptitude utilizing querying tools and understanding relational databases.
- Ability to provide feedback on internal database designs and identify data issues and resolutions
- Able to understand and apply technology solutions by translating business requirements into conceptual, logical, and physical data models, and basic system configuration
- Mentor business analysts within department/division.
- Provide a specialized level of process redesign and support including using tools, responding to user questions, problem diagnosis, recognition and solutions for process improvements, research, troubleshooting, tracking and resolution.
- Plan and monitor expenditures to meet organizational objectives and compliance
- Monitor and manage assets and resources from a financial perspective.
- Responsible for business unit relationships and overseeing, managing and leveraging the entire life cycle of information technology investments in systems for a large business unit or major corporate initiative – from defining and targeting the investment mix, to planning the portfolio structure and packaging, to creating and communicating the portfolio plan and implement actionable items to achieve results.
- Plays a key role in the strategic planning process for the IT organization, acting as a lead advisor to the CIO, CFO, other senior business leaders, the IT leadership council, and governance committees.
- Works with and advises these individuals and groups on how enterprise priorities link to technology investments, and the risks and benefits of specific portfolio activities and advises other Portfolio Managers.
- Directs the IT organization and other stakeholders to develop, prioritize, and execute the information technology and business portfolio plan.
- Analyzes portfolio performance, and drives changes in investment mix to achieve goals.
- Proactively identifies opportunities to improve the strategic position to lower cost of ownership and provide a competitive advantage to the business.
- May provide training and mentoring, as well as work direction, to others on the team.
Job Type
Full-Time
Relocation
No
Minimum Requirements
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Tech Business Analyst Sr.:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, business or related field of study;
- Or Associate’s degree in computer science or related field of study with 2 years of relevant work experience;
- Or High school diploma/GED with 4 years of relevant work experience.
Experience:
- In addition to any experience required above, 5 years of relevant work experience is required.
Tech Business Analyst Prin.:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, business or related field of study;
- Or Associate’s degree in computer science or related field of study with 2 years of relevant work experience;
- Or High school diploma/GED with 4 years of relevant work experience.
Experience:
- In addition to any experience required above, 7 years of relevant work experience is required.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
- 3+ years experience with AEP internal processes (financial management, forecasting, CITO governance, ServiceNow, CI approvals, Work order management, etc.)
- Resource capacity management
- Prioritization frameworks
- Value realization monitoring
- Strong Communication Skills
- Or High school diploma/GED with 4 years of relevant work experience.
Experience:
- In addition to any experience required above, 5 years of relevant work experience is required.
Tech Business Analyst Prin.:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, business or related field of study;
- Or Associate’s degree in computer science or related field of study with 2 years of relevant work experience;
- Or High school diploma/GED with 4 years of relevant work experience.
Experience:
- In addition to any experience required above, 7 years of relevant work experience is required.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
- 3+ years experience with AEP internal processes (financial management, forecasting, CITO governance, ServiceNow, CI approvals, Work order management, etc.)
- Resource capacity management
- Prioritization frameworks
- Value realization monitoring
- Strong Communication Skills
