Duration : Contract

Qualifications: 6 + years of experience required

Responsibilities: The Business Analyst job family defines skills for formulating and defining system scope using information technology and industry knowledge/requirements, based on both user needs and a good understanding of information technology, business processes, and industry requirements. The job progression identifies responsibilities ranging from assisting, formulating and defining systems scope and objectives to self-directed activities that result in client’s long term improvements in business processes. ‘-Provides BU Support, resolving issues not requiring extensive business / system knowledge. -Communicates incident status / clarifies issues with business partner. -Escalates incidents to seniors where business process and extensive system knowledge is required. -Resolves application incidents and problems that require app code and/or op modifications such as lower complexity software problem resolution, training issues and documentation, and data problems requiring moderate business analysis, extensive business, and/or system knowledge. ‘-Responsible for a liaison role between the business and IT services providers to ensure functional specs are understood and they have what they need to develop their tech specs. -Analyzes issues to be solved within an enterprise and helps provide solutions to meet the desired business outcomes through the use of IT -Understands and documents business requirements and user requirements to ensure system designs meets business needs. -Ensures knowledge transfer to the support organization occurs prior to system go-live. -Schedules and communicates the system go-live date. -Develops and/or update documentations and training materials. -Ensures IT and SOX compliance is covered. -Documents functional requirements that describe the system, process, or product to fulfill business requirements. ‘-Responsible for functional design of application systems across all technologies and platforms. -Translates user requirements to process and data requirements. -Converts specifications about business problems into sequence of detailed programming instructions to solve business problems through automation support. -Constructs program flow charts to describe the processing of data and development of precise steps and processing logic across all platforms. -Provides broad understanding of platforms and applications across all technologies. -Functions as an IT advisor to the business units. -Oversees and guides the team of Business Analysts I, II

Duration:  12 Months 

Job Description: 

Under general supervision, analyzes customer business needs and participates in the planning, design and implementation of new or enhanced systems.

The Business Analyst will report to the Sr. Manager of Technical Solutions. Under limited supervision, this position will participate in the planning, documentation, design, testing, and implementation of new system functionality and enhancements to existing functionality for multiple systems.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for both recommending and capturing business requirements, functional, and non-functional requirements for the various systems.
  • Participates in, and in some cases may lead, business requirement gathering sessions with internal stakeholders, business vendors, and partner programs and agencies.
  • Participates in the planning, creation, testing, deployment, and evaluation of the SDLC.
  • Evaluates and provides feedback on system requirements created by other vendors, programs, or agencies.
  • Participates in or assists with user acceptance testing.
  • Develops, documents, and reports recommendations for solving and/or addressing problems, questions and issues based on research conducted.
  • Clearly communicates management’s views on major policies or current issues to individuals and entities both within and outside the organization.
  • Creates and manages logic for robotic process automation used in DECAL’s systems and processing.
  • Uses sound judgment to respond appropriately to internal and external contacts.
  • Accurately and clearly conveys directives, assignments, instructions, and other information from management to other staff as directed.
  • Independently establishes and monitors deadlines to ensure timeliness of staff’s responses to inquiries, complaints, and other issues.
  • Coordinates with vendors and technical staff to ensure that functionality of automated systems is consistent with, and in adherence to, program policies, laws, regulations, and best practice standards by users.
  • Develops and administers training, training documents, and user guidance for system changes or workarounds.
  • Develops and documents business processes for users of new or upgraded system.
  • Assists with development of change management plans for transition to new or upgraded systems.
  • Provides business user support and oversight statewide in the use of all data systems for the program.
  • Serves as liaison between business users and technical staff in the implementation and development of business process automation.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field from an accredited college or university OR Associate’s degree in a related field from an accredited college or university AND Two years of related experience OR Two years of experience at the lower level IT Business Analyst 1 position equivalent.
  • Experience working with data systems and acting as a liaison between business users and technical staff.
  • Experience automating and documenting business processes.
  • Experience working on multiple complex projects simultaneously.
  • Experience organizing and analyzing data to inform decision making.
  • Experience managing business functions and processes.
  • Knowledge of system development and configuration.
  • Advanced skills in Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
  • Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP), Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA), Project Management Institute – Business Analyst (PMI-PBA), or similar certification

Technical Competencies:

  • Knowledge of eligibility requirements and systems.
  • Experience creating user stories based on collected requirements and well-defined acceptance criteria on a software project management platform such as JIRA, DevOps, Microsoft Project, or TFS.
  • Understanding of the needs and processes necessary for process automation.  Particular expertise gathering requirements for reporting on PowerBI/SSRS, ETL (SSIS), and .NET applications with Angular front-ends.
  • Understanding of business user needs, and ability to translate those needs to technical staff that are responsible for the coding and development of data systems.
  • Understanding of how data systems interact.
  • Intermediate or advanced skills in Microsoft Word and Excel.
  • Intermediate skills in SharePoint and relational databases.
  • Ability to execute high quality customer service by anticipating customer needs, providing services accurately, in a respectful and timely manner, and establishing and maintaining effective contact and follow through with customers.
  • Ability to develop and maintain positive work relationships.
  • Ability to collaborate and work effectively as a team member.
  • Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, and organizational skills.
  • Ability to organize and evaluate data to drive decision making.
  • Ability to work with diverse communities and sensitivity to needs and concerns of various cultural groups.