Job Description:
Job Description
seeking
a Business Analyst with experience in business process improvement and creating
all analyses deliverables for a three-year project in Brooklyn, NY.
Mandatory
In person interview required at client site.
Scope
of Services:
- Serves
as a liaison between the business programs community and the IT
organization to provide technical solutions to meet user needs.
- Analyzes
business partner's operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses
to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions.
- Assists
in the business process redesign and documentation as needed for new
technology.
- Conducts
efficient requirement gathering session with multiple stakeholders to
capture business requirement.
- Translates
high level business requirements into functional specifications for the IT
organization and manages changes to such specifications. Educates the IT
organization on the direction of the business.
- Negotiates
agreements and commitments by facilitating communication between business
unit(s) and IT from initial requirements to final implementation.
- Requirements
development execution, including the elicitation, analysis, specification
and validation.
- Document
and analyze agency business processes and recommending improvements.
- Document
and analyze data requirements and relationships.
- Participate
in the requirements management processes, including change control,
version control, tracking and status reporting, and traceability.
- Proactively
identifying risks, issues, and action items leading to possible solutions.
- Interacting
with internal and external organizations (i.e. vendors, State and Federal
government agencies, State providers and beneficiaries, and other
stakeholders).
- May
make recommendations for buy versus build decision.
- Research
business rules, requirements, and models.
- Maintain
business rules, requirements, and models in a repository.
Mandatory
requirements:
- 6 years’ experience in government IT projects as a
business analyst or related duties
- 6 years’ experience eliciting, mining, and documenting
business rules, processes
- 5 years’ experience in Waterfall design methods
- 5 years’ experience in Agile methods
- Experience using JIRA, Confluence, SLACK, Bitbucket,
and ServiceNow
- Experience
in SNAP, TANF, Medicaid Eligibility or other social services
programs
- Superb
written and oral communications skills, including the ability to write
requirements and Use Cases.
- Strong
SQL experience
- Possesses
expertise in the business unit(s) they support, as well as, an understanding
of the IT organization's systems and capabilities.
- Possesses
an understanding of technological trends and uses this knowledge to bring
solutions to business units supported to enhance the enterprise's
competitive edge.
- Experience
and ability to obtain business processes and requirements information by
interviewing business personnel and extracting requirement from
regulations and/or policy documents.
- Knowledge
of formal business process documentation.
Understanding
of business modeling techniques, including the use of graphical process flow
software