Business Process Reengineering

Role: Business Process Reengineering

Location: Lansing, MI Hybrid

Duration: 1 Year

Interview: MS-Teams/Webex/Video

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Close to Submissions on: 8/12 at 10am EST

- Interviews: MS Teams video interviews with camera ON.

- Duration: 1 year with desire for contractor to convert to fulltime with SOMI in 1-2 years. At the time of conversion, candidate must be authorized to work in the US without VISA sponsorship by the agency.

- Position location: Lansing, MI. Resource will be working a hybrid schedule. NO REMOTE ONLY OPTION. Will need to be onsite from day 1, two days a week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays)

- Local candidates only. Candidates must be located in the agency within 1-1.5 hours of Lansing, MI at time of submission

Top skills/experience:

- Strong written and oral communication skills are a must for this position

- 5+ years overall experience & bachelor's degree are required

- Training/Teaching Background - 5+ years

- Azure DevOps Knowledge (comfortable with creating epics/features for projects) - 5+ years

- Understanding of BA, QA, DEV roles/responsibilities

- Experienced with as-is/to-be processes and content creation - 5+ years

- Please See Job Description for full list of requirements

Business Process Reengineering Specialist

Objective: 80% effort on requirements gathering project for upcoming IT project. 20% of effort to use existing templates to create content/reference material

for business analyst and quality assurance roles and business subject matter experts to create cohesiveness between business, technical staff, and project

management office. Ultimately this will also benefit Prod Support activities as well in terms of management of the Azure DevOps backlog, user stories, and

management of Azure DevOps cards for work progress.

The Business Process Reengineering Specialist (BPRS) is responsible for gathering and documenting clear, unambiguous, and testable business requirements

from the client, and understanding the business requirements thoroughly in order to communicate business need and system functionality to technical and non-

technical stakeholders, project team members, and the user community. The BPRS is responsible for working with the project team and stakeholders to examine

existing and future-state business processes, data, and systems. This information is used to guide the gathering of business requirements as they relate to the

desired system functionality.

The BRPS will provide training/shadowing/coaching to existing and upcoming BA/QA roles and SMEs and tailor existing content and processes to the business

area needs (from standards, policies, procedures, on existing/provided templates). The BRPS will add context for using the tool of Azure DevOps in order to

create project artifacts on a fast-paced agile development and maintenance delivery team.

Responsible for facilitating requirement gathering meetings to identify impacted business processes and document the project business requirements.

Attendees include relevant project team members and stakeholders as identified in the Communication Plan. Responsible for adhering to the project schedule

by developing and maintaining the project backlog during Agile projects and working with the product owner to set priority throughout the duration of project.

Responsible for understanding project scope and actively monitoring requirements process to maintain adherence to the objectives set for the project.

Responsible for understanding high-level information governance objectives and ensuring appropriate Stakeholder inclusion and/or awareness regarding data

requirements. Responsible for appropriate resolution of critical IT issues as it pertains to the BPRS role. Responsible for providing information and analysis for

Build vs. Buy project decisions. Responsible for understanding project specific benefits and related impact of changes to project scope or business requirements.

Ensures SEM deliverables for the project that are a responsibility of the BPRS are completed, reviewed, and approved in alignment with area processes. Works

directly with project team including user interface/user experience (UI/UX) solution architects, database administrators, developers, QA testers, and others to

ensure understanding of the requirements, functionality, size, and scalability of the IT solution.

The ideal candidate will have a training/teaching background and a proven track record in the subject matter area of business analyst/quality assurance

process and process improvement in an Agile environment using Azure DevOps as the tool. This position requires strong oral/written communication skills.

Skill Set # of Years

Training/Teaching Background 5

Business Analyst SME 5

Quality Assurance Knowledge 5

Azure DevOps Knowledge (comfortable with creating epics/features for

projects) 5

Understanding of BA, QA, DEV roles/responsibilities 5

Experienced with as-is/to-be processes and content creation 5

Experience with creating product roadmap 3

Familiarity with Project Management Methodologies/Agile 3

Adept with using/teaching tools (e.g., FIGMA, Visio) 3

Experience Required/Desired # of Years

Experience engaging in business process analysis,

understanding the customer's business process

requirements, and capable of translating those

business requirements into business and technical

documentation and specifications Required 5

Experience with system testing Required 5

Ability to effectively communicate with technical

and non-technical stakeholders. Required 5

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with

the ability to think creatively and strategically Required 5

Experience documenting requirements in the form

of user stories and acceptance criteria. Required 5

Experience developing and maintaining technical

documentation. Required 5