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Business Analyst Education Domain SME Level - MS - MDEK12 153147-100 % Remote
Minimum Education Level : Bachelor's Degree
Duration -3 years
100% Remote.
Experience with Department of Education - HIGHLY PREFERRED
Project Details:
- The Mississippi Department of Education has a current goal for every community to effectively
- use a World-Class Data System to improve student outcomes. This goal has an outcome to
- increase the availability of quality data to drive decisions that improve student outcomes. We
- are planning to satisfy this goal in part by modernizing our current student information system
- along with improving the quality of data in connected systems. This will include web-based
- application development, and creation of dashboards and reports that will improve access,
- accuracy and ease of use for all stakeholders.
This position will require a qualified Technical Business Analyst to take the lead in the following tasks:
- Ability to create and document detailed business requirements, perform analysis,
- outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for the stakeholders
- Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and
- deliver requirements and documentation
- A strong understanding of the documentation development process, the software
- development process, and product lifecycles
- Determine operational objectives by studying and documenting business functions;
- gathering information; evaluating output and formats
- Improve systems by studying and documenting current state and business rules
- Ability to partner with other team members and stakeholder across multiple business
- units to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way,
- communicating effectively and efficiently with executive teams
- Ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience and business
- information to a technical audience
- Ability to successfully apply complex knowledge of fundamental concepts practices, and
- procedures of technical writing.
- Construct workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing
- specifications
- Translating stakeholder requests into formal requirements
- Deliver high-quality business requirement documentation for business manuals, new
- development, training manuals, user guide, and system guide
REQUIRED DEGREE -Bachelor's degree
Skills Matrix:
| Skills Required | Required | Years of experience + Comment |
| Must be able to effectively communicate (verbal and written) requirements with stakeholders as well as development team |
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| Must be able to collaborate with Project Manager, Architect, and developers to ensure business requirements are communicated, accepted, and meet expectations | 7 |
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| Must be able to translate and simplify requirements from stakeholders into written requirement documents for development team. Documents include: Formal Business Requirements Document, Functional Design Document Technical Design Document, Technical Use Cases, User stories, Business Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test cases. | 7 years |
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| Must be able to create diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of business processes | 7 |
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| Must be able to create diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of data flow through system | 7 |
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| Must be able to create and manage test cases for Quality Assurance. | 7 |
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| Must be familiar with software and database development concepts | 7 |
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| Technical Business Analyst work on a software development team | 7 |
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| Must have experience developing technical documentation for enterprise software users, system administrators, and other technical audiences | 7 |
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| Strong experience in requirements management and creating all documents listed above | 7 |
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| Strong experience in mapping business processes into technical documentation | 7 |
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| Strong experience in user acceptance testing7 | 7 |
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| Ability to analyze business functions | 7 |
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| Practical experience generating process documentation and reports | 7 |
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| Strong working knowledge of relevant Microsoft applications, including Visio | 7 |
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| Extensive experience with data visualization | 7 |
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| Excellent communication with the ability to translate data into actionable insights | 7 |
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| Scrum | 7 |
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| Agile | 7 |
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| Education- Bachelor's degree
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| Preference given to candidates with the below skills/experience. Must also meet minimum requirements. |
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| MS Visio or similar product |
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| Database Entity Design |
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| Figma |
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| Education data systems |
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| SQL |
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| Common Education Data Standards |
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| Scrum / Agile |
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| Three (3) references of submitted candidates required. Please provide the following. Must submit with resume. |
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