Job Description:
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UNIVERSAL
is 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
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