Business Systems Analyst (797079)

Title: Business Systems Analyst (797079) Duration: 8 months Location: Richmond, VA 23219 Client: Virginia Information Technology Agency

Note: Hybrid role

• Job Description:
  The Business System Analyst reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs. Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies. Leads analysis and solution definition. Understands the business issues and data challenges of the organization. Identifies organization's strengths and weaknesses and suggests areas of improvement. Reviews and edits requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution. Develops functional and non-functional specifications, uses cases and system design specifications for systems. Conducts effective joint applications development and brainstorming sessions. Interviews and surveys subject matter experts and stakeholders together requirements. Understands the agile development and the universal modeling language.
• In addition to the above, the Business Systems Analyst specializes in analyzing, designing and implementing information systems. Systems analysts assess the suitability of information systems in terms of their intended outcomes and liaise with end users, software vendors and programmers to achieve these outcomes. Plans system data flow from the ground up. Writes technical requirements from acritical phase, interacts with software architect to understand software limitations. Helps programmers during system development, e.g., providing use cases, flowcharts, UML and BPMN diagrams. Documents requirements or contributes to user manuals. Knowledge of the limitations and capabilities of computer systems, of applicable programming languages, of computer hardware and software, of computer operating systems, of writing program code, and of automated mapping. Ability to analyze systems and procedures, to write and revise standards and procedures, to communicate effectively, and to train others. Identify, understand and plan for organizational and human impacts of planned systems, and ensure that new technical requirements are properly integrated with existing processes and skill sets.