Business Analyst 2

Scope of Services

The scope of services required for the Business Analyst 2 includes:

• Responsible for working with business subject matter experts, translating business needs into understandable requirements, and translating these into technical specifications that the developers can work from.
• Responsible for creating design documentation, conducting reviews to obtain user validation of requirements.
• Responsible for analysis, modeling and documenting data requirements, and working with DBA's and developers to integrate these requirements.
• Responsible for walkthroughs with development and technical staff and working with this staff to ensure requirements are incorporated into systems design and testing.
• Act as liaison between IT development staff and business users to resolve discrepancies, address requirements, questions, and issues.
• Responsible for conducting preliminary testing and working with business to ensure that functionality is designed correctly, as well as business testers for user acceptance testing.
• Collaborate with the Project Manager to develop planning estimates for all responsibilities outlined and to manage assigned tasks through timely progress reporting.
• Provide required status reports and management updates.

The ideal candidate will be able to contribute immediately in the following areas:

• Assist with software development efforts as determined by the project management team.
• Assist the Department in the formulation of tactical and strategic plans.
• Assist the Department in its reconciliation current business requirements, and modern information technology standards.
• Able to prioritize between multiple projects and able to meet project deadlines.

Minimum Qualifications

In addition to the standard skills and experience for the job class, the ideal candidate shall possess the following qualifications:

General Experience:

• Minimum five (5) years of experience in design, management, unit testing, and solving complex engineering problems.

Technical Competencies:

• Strong analysis and problem solving and design skills.
• Working with or coordinating the project team, proposes, documents, and assesses technical solutions to business needs, and verifies and validates highly complex system specifications.
• Manages highly complex system and project requirements requiring extensive interaction with business partners.
• Translates business needs into systems specifications.
• Defines key business processes and identifies critical paths of the operations.
• Identifies changes to scope and tracks requirements through implementation.
• Conversant with data analysis using database queries like TSQL.
• Familiar with agile methodologies
• Familiar with tracking tasks using TFS (VSTS or Azure Dev Ops a plus) or similar systems is a plus.
• Experience with data modelling and data visualization tools is a plus.
• Facilitates the resolution of highly complex system defects.
• Provides gap analysis.
• Schedules and facilitates meetings for planning, coordinating, and tracking the design, development, programming, and implementation of information systems.
• Creating training materials using elicitation and facilitation techniques with all levels of the organization.
• Experience on Production Support activities.