IT Sr. Business Analyst – Corporate Affairs and Employee Experience (Hybrid) - Texas, Flower Mound 571 Silveron Blvd

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

As the IT Sr. Business Analyst – Corporate Affairs and Employee Experience, you will partner with stakeholder and technical teams to elicit and document process flows, features, requirements, and user stories as part of projects and enhancements ensuring quality delivery of those requirements through other IT partners collaborating with Corporate Affairs, Communications and MarCom teams globally to understand and support their business objectives.

Who we want

Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, data and insights to drive continuous improvement in functions.

Analytical problem solvers. People who go beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.

Effective communicators. People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders, senior management, and their teams. 

What you will do

• ​​​Build and maintain strong relationship with stakeholders. 
• ​Focus on processes and solutions to support the employee experience and Corporate Responsibility goals including employee giving & volunteerism and Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) program.
• ​Responsible for soliciting and documenting business requirements, features, functional requirements and user stories and ensuring quality delivery through other IT partners including third party partners.
• ​Document test cases and perform or manage user acceptance testing in partnership with business and testing center of excellence, as applicable.  
• ​Effectively leverage demand, collaboration and planning tools such as Azure DevOps (ADO) for documentation of requirements and test cases.
• ​Partner with testing center of excellence to ensure regression test scripts remain updated and are run on a regular basis to ensure platform stability and continuity. 
• ​Partner with stakeholders and technical teams to drive consensus on the best solution to address business needs and the delivery of new solutions and enhancements.     
• ​Define tangible, functional use cases that align desired technology output to business objectives. 
• ​Recommend business process and system changes to improve efficiency and business outcomes. 
• Manage minor and/or major enhancement initiatives launching key capabilities to the platform in a governed fashion. 

What you need

• Bachelor’s degree required. 
• Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Management of Information Systems (MS), or Computer Information Systems (CS or CIS) or related discipline preferred. 
• 2+ years of professional experience in projects implementing new technology platforms and updates is required.
• Experience collaborating with leaders and stakeholders to gather business requirements and write user stories is required.
• Experience with process mapping and/or documenting complex processes and presenting them in a clear and understandable format is required.
• Experience delivering on communications or digital marketing platforms is preferred.
• Ability to understand, evaluate and recommend changes to business processes is required.   
• Knowledge of System Development Lifecycle Methodologies (SDLC) and Agile Development methodologies is preferred. 
• Working experience with ADO(Azure DevOps), Jira, and/or Git preferred.
• Demonstrated functional and/or technical acumen in Microsoft SharePoint and O365 tools is preferred.

Travel Percentage: 20%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.