Business Analysis careers that take you where you want to go.

Bridge the gap between IT and business.

Find out what Business Analysis at Resource Data is like.

Professional Journey

Never boring. Always growing.

Our business analysts help clients make changes for the better. They have backgrounds as business owners, technical writers, financial analysts, educators, journalists, marketers, GIS analysts, researchers, developers and more. Many didn’t start out to be business analysts, but their experience gave them the skills to help clients understand, define, and get what they really want out of their software.

At Resource Data, you won’t get bored as a business analyst. You’ll work in fields from natural resources to local governments, to utilities, often wearing different hats throughout the life of a project. Early on you may interview client staff to sleuth out the real problems they’re facing and develop requirements for their ideal solutions. Later, you could be called back to the project to help test new systems and processes or develop and deliver training to end users.

Throughout your work, you’ll have the support of our team of business analysts. We’ve built a strong BA community who meet regularly to learn from each other through training sessions and forums. And with our broad range of experience, there is always someone to reach out to for guidance, advice, or to bounce around ideas.

Skills

Guide projects and improve processes and systems.

Our business analysts have excellent communication, organizational, and analytical skills that they use to gather and prioritize requirements, define processes, and conduct analyses. They’re abstract thinkers and problem solvers, with the leadership skills and confidence to influence others. You’ll fit right in if

• You’re a strong communicator, particularly in writing
• You’re organized
• You’re resourceful
• You can balance and prioritize multiple projects
• You ask questions
• You think critically
• You’re a problem solver
• You can learn your client’s lingo and quickly come up to speed
• You can translate technical language to business users and business language to technical users

Challenges

Adaptation and persistence are key.

Business analysts work with a wide variety of people in a wide variety of roles under a wide variety of pressures. Meeting clients where they are, learning their communication styles, and being persistent in collecting the information you need is key to successful business analysis work.

Business analysis is like doing a puzzle with no edge pieces and no picture of what the final puzzle could look like. There’s a lot of disparate pieces of information, boundaries aren’t always clear, there might be some information that isn’t relevant, etc. You have to work through it all and figure out how to get to a coherent picture at the end of the day.

Kami Fitch
Lead Business Analyst/Director of Business, Anchorage