Business Analyst (On-site from Day One)

Join Our Team

Do you want to make an impact on the world around you? The work we do at Kyra Solutions directly impacts government entities and the citizens they serve. In Transportation, our solutions are designed to save lives on the roadways and in our Regulatory practice, we are designing solutions to make government digital for your accessibility. Kyra works hard to offer long-term growth potential, competitive wages, and continuous professional development for our employees.

If you are interested in furthering your career with Kyra and help us improve the way governments serve their citizens, please send your resume, and make sure to include salary expectation, availability, and contact information. You do not want to miss this opportunity!

Title

Business Analyst (On-site from Day One)

Required Skills and Experience

* Ability to effectively communicate with both technical and business resources and translate business needs into effective D&A specifications.
* Excellent relationship management skills, including building relationships and trust through active listening, demonstrated interest in business challenges, and time spent assisting colleagues.
* Ability to facilitate and host sessions to elicit ideas from business colleagues, understand their challenges, and encourage group participation.
* Ability to think creatively, frame new concepts that inspire new D&A use cases, and brainstorm with colleagues about future solutions and services.
* Ability to influence and engage others through storytelling, persuasive ideas, and thoughtful narratives that support the Client mission.
* Ability to navigate and understand the needs of multiple stakeholders.
* Excellent oral (presenting and public speaking) and written (documentation, briefing reports, correspondence, PowerPoint presentations, etc.) communication skills.
* Ability to conduct research into D&A issues and products.
* Ability to work on multiple projects as a project team member, occasionally as a project leader.

Preferred Skills and Experience

* Familiarity with environmental science, water quality, or related fields.
* Experience with D&A work, data governance, and data literacy.
* Certification in business analysis (e.g., CBAP, PMI-PBA).
* Experience with, or certification in, project management.
* Familiarity with business case development.
* Familiarity with design UX/design.

Primary Responsibilities

* During the inspiration phase, collaborate with business colleagues and D&A team members to understand data needs and identify the valuable D&A use cases. Translate high level requirements into functional specifications and manage changes to such specifications.
* During the ideation phase, brainstorm with business colleagues to identify costs and benefits of the use case. Brainstorm with the D&A team on developing the prototype and minimum viable product (MVP). Also, help identify and explore potential data sources for the solution.
* During the implementation phase, assist with the adoption of the D&A service or product by coordinating with business colleagues on documentation, training, data literacy, and change management.
* During the post-implementation phase, support and coordinate with business colleagues to track progress and adoption, document value added, and share success stories with the D&A team and the Client.
* Mentor the D&A team to improve their understanding of business practices and needs.
* Educate and coach business colleagues to improve their understanding of D&A practices.
* Build trust in Client data by assisting in the improvement of data quality.
* Understand business change needs, assessing the business impact of those changes, capturing, analyzing, and documenting requirements and supporting the communication and delivery of requirements with relevant stakeholders.
* Identify any requirements for new methods of data collection. For each new component identified, create and update analysis documentation to include wireframes, process maps, business data definitions and business rules.
* Lead requirements definitions meetings with business colleagues.
* Facilitate joint application design (JAD) sessions with the D&A team to define the solution.
* Facilitate the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders.
* Analyze information gathered about business needs and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding. Create Visio process maps, requirements traceability matrices, use cases and other business analysis documentation appropriate to the specifically assigned project needs.
* Create, analyze, and validate detailed functional and non-functional specifications.
* Support multiple complex business processes.
* Assist in the business process redesign and documentation as needed.
* Coordinate with D&A team members on delivery of elements of systems design, including data migration rules, business rules, wireframes, or other detailed deliverables.

Education

* Bachelor s degree in Data Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related studies, or equivalent work experience.

Location

Tallahassee, FL

Duration

Long-Term

Why Kyra?

Founded in 1997, Kyra Solutions is a national leader of transportation technology and regulatory solutions in government. We specialize in the art and science of digital transformation in government. Our commitment to providing the highest level of service and tailored solutions has supported our consistent double-digit growth for over a decade. We are headquartered in the greater Tampa Bay area with other offices across Florida and an innovation center in Silicon Valley, CA.

Because of our dedication to our employees, we have won one of the Best Companies to Work for in Florida 2 years in a row by Florida Trend magazine. Kyra has won other numerous awards including the coveted INC magazine s one of America s Fastest Growing Companies several years in a row. Kyra s commitment to our employees, to best practices in project management and business analysis, and to solution development has led to our achievement in becoming the first Project Management Institute certified company in Florida. Our proven successful track record has resulted in several prestigious awards including the State of Florida's Diversity Business of the Year Award. We are proud to be a sponsor for the TaxWatch Productivity Awards and partner to Florida TaxWatch. for more information.

Background & References

Verifiable professional references will be required along with the resume; however, references will be checked/contacted after the interview and before the project starts. Level two background check will be done on the selected candidate for employment, criminal (State & Federal), education, and others as mandated by the client. Please make sure your resume and all other information provided are accurate. Any misrepresentation will mean permanent disqualification by the client. Equal employment opportunity employer.