Lead Business Analyst- Vehicle Systems

Position Summary:

The Lead Business Analyst will support Vehicle Systems, which is responsible for developing, implementing, and operating information systems that serve jurisdictions, consumers, law enforcement, and federal agencies.

The Lead Business Analyst will function as a subject matter expert for AAMVA's vehicle systems. Key responsibilities include:

• Engage with business stakeholders to understand their needs, objectives, and processes.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of business processes, workflows, and data requirements.
• Identify areas for improvement and potential technology solutions.
• Develop detailed business requirements documents, functional specifications, and technical requirements.
• Write and maintain external system specifications.

The Lead Business Analyst will collaborate with other project team members to complete tasks. They will also work with program stakeholders to capture business requirements for vehicle systems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Works with Jurisdictions, AAMVA Committees, Federal Agencies, Law Enforcement, and other stakeholders to gather, analyze and document business and technical requirements for new systems and/or changes to existing systems and develop grant applications, business proposals, technical specifications, procedures manuals, and implementation guides as necessary.
• Conducts periodic meetings with stakeholders to provide status updates, discuss requirements and address/escalate issues. Formulates agendas, produces meeting minutes, and ensures follow-up for action items.
• Provides input into developing and modifying systems to meet stakeholder needs by developing appropriate data models, data flow diagrams, data dictionaries, business and technical processes, message formats, transaction flows, and other documents as required.
• Translates high-level requirements into detailed requirements suitable for software design, development, and testing.
• Documents requirements in the form of Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and user stories and reviews them with the agile project team.
• Conducts peer review of presentations and documents created by other analysts and provides feedback.
• The position requires an understanding of service-oriented architectures. Including both SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and RESTful (Representational State Transfer)
• Collaborates with developers, testers and, other project team members and serves as the primary POC for requirements clarification.
• Manages requirements traceability information and tracks requirements status throughout the project.
• Develops courses of action regarding how to proceed with full functional development of AAMVA systems, including business/functional requirements and technological solutions to implement systems.
• Coordinates, develops, and monitors implementation of pilot projects, providing technical assistance, coordination, training, and other services.
• Assists with the development of the base statements of work and project definitions that document the project s background and initiative s mission, goals, cost estimates, roadmaps, guiding principles, and work plan.
• Remains informed about various AAMVA initiatives and considers the inter-dependencies between these initiatives when leading an effort.
• Monitors project risks and informs/escalates these risks to management.
• Participates in requirements prioritization.
• Reviews the test plans developed by the development and testing teams to ensure that they meet the requirements.
• Conducts and manages scrum, planning, and retrospective agile ceremonies as needed.
• Prepares user guides and training materials.
• Prepares and conducts webinars as needed.
• Develops reports for stakeholders and documents findings related to AAMVA systems efforts.
• Minimal travel (up to 5%) may be requested.

Direct Reports to this Position:

No direct reports.

Qualifications:

Formal Education: Bachelor's degree in a related field and 8 years of experience. An additional 4 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Eight years of progressive experience in business analysis, systems analysis, and design in large-scale projects across multiple organizations
• Proficiency in writing technical documentation
• Experience in documenting business processes and functional requirements
• Experience with web services SOAP & RESTful, JSON, and XML
• Experience with agile processes for software development
• Experience with writing user stories in agile projects
• Strong interpersonal skills to interact with customers and team members
• Must be able to work independently and as an effective team member
• Development and presentation of briefings to stakeholders
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and organizational skills
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to produce high-quality customer deliverables
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven ability to capture customer requirements and develop a concept of operations based on customers needs
• Data Modeling experience is desirable

Disclaimer Statement: The preceding job description has been written to reflect management s assignment of essential functions. It does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

AAMVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V