Business Analyst IV Location: Houston TX or Chicago IL (hybrid) Duration: Through end of year NEED LOCAL TO Houston TX or Chicago IL NEED ONLY USC,GC Top Skills: Airline experience a big plus Knowledge of Agile development concepts (Scrum, Kanban, etc.) Ability to understand, communicate and engage effectively with multiple partners and interactions. Familiarity with creating business requirements documents or managing user stories and backlogs. Ability to define scope, epics and definition of done by collaborating closely with technology and business stakeholders. Ability to assess product/project issues and collaborate with functional leads to conduct impact assessments and recommend resolutions. Project Details: You will be part of a new project building an Offer generation engine for customer flight shopping. This role is responsible for analysis using techniques that enable a highly iterative delivery approach of continuous requirements identification and just-in-time definition of requirements. This position requires an excellent communicator with outstanding analytical skills to collaborate with business users, technology teams, and leadership in an Agile environment. Work Schedule: Hybrid 1-2 days in either Chicago or Houston office with potential to change due to business needs Contract to Hire possible depending on business need and resource. Possible travel between Chicago and Houston office for project meetings. Job Summary: Drive identification of requirements across business units and identify substandard systems processes through evaluation of real-time data. Serve as thought leader for technical business processes, developing forward-thinking systems prototypes that promote increased efficiency and productivity on multiple levels Primary Responsibilities: Create and implement precise management plans for every project, with attention to transparent communication at all levels Perform, evaluate, and communicate thorough quality assurance at every stage of systems development Determine and develop user requirements for systems in production, to ensure maximum usability Partner with other stakeholder teams across business units (i.e., sales, finance, security, compliance) to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with production, managerial, and executive teams Evaluate, analyze, and communicate systems requirements on a continuing basis, and maintain systems processes, including the delivery of monthly status reports to all appropriate parties Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation Conduct daily systems analytics to maximize effectiveness and troubleshoot problems Develop meaningful and lasting relationships with partners for optimized systems integration, and respond to questions and concerns from managers and executives with supporting research and recommendations Qualifications: Technical Degree or related work experience Proven experience in an analytics and systems development capacity High proficiency with SQL language and database management Proven analytical abilities Practical experience generating process documentation and reports Excellent communicator with the ability to translate data into actionable insights Experience working with Business Objects.