Sr. Business Analyst - onsite (In-Person Interview at Atlanta, GA)

Title: Sr. Business Analyst - onsite (In-Person Interview at Atlanta, GA)

Location: Atlanta, GA, USA

Length: Long term

Restriction: w2 or 1099 or c2c

Description:

Interview Type: Either Web Cam or In Person*** Very long term project; expect to go for 4+ years ***w2 or 1099 or c2c ***Onsite***

Job Description:

Acts as a liaison between the IT organization and the business partner. Analyzes business issues, defines requirements, and explains complex data flows to a wide range of audiences.

The purpose of the project is to build a Case Management System that will be a modern statewide, secure, digital, cloud based, case management system that interfaces across multiple courts, with a variety of existing databases, and reporting systems.

• Acts as a liaison between the IT organization and the business partner.
• Analyze business issues, define requirements, create screen designs, and recommend automated system controls and protocols to solve organizational information issues.
• Determine operational objectives, gather information, and evaluate output requirements and formats.
• Work closely with end users to analyze, define, model, and document systems requirements.
• Identify project milestones, phases, and elements, and keep the team within timeline and budget.
• Construct workflow charts and diagrams, study system capabilities, and write specifications.
• Develop organizational change management framework and conduct user acceptance testing.
• Creates and maintains end-user documentation (e.g., user guides, process flow charts, training materials) and delivers training.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Works on multiple projects/applications as a project team member.
• Considered a subject matter expert for several projects/applications.
• Works on projects of moderate to high complexity within one or more development environments.
• The Senior BA works with both software developers and business customers to ensure that the business needs are being met by the systems being built, changed, enhanced or purchased.
• Responsible for identifying and communicating business needs for multiple/complex software solutions by translating these needs into functional and non-functional requirements used by software developers, usually in the form of a formal requirements document.
• Responsible for the elicitation, analysis and documentation of multiple customers business requirements for assigned projects/applications.
• Responsibilities include, but may not be limited to, the following:
• Participates in and facilitates customer meetings as well as project team meetings.
• Participates in project team meetings during all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Serves as a liaison between the business partners and the development team to provide technical solutions to meet user needs.
• Utilizes requirements elicitation techniques, such as facilitated sessions, workshops, interviews and shadowing to elicit requirements from customers, users and stakeholders.
• Develops, writes and communicates business and functional requirements and produces requirements documentation, which includes use case narratives, use case diagrams, functional and non-functional requirements. Ensures that resulting business requirements are thorough and accurate.
• Articulates data flow concepts, explains the purpose and impact of data movement, and answers questions from both technical experts and business users, ensuring a shared understanding of the data landscape.
• Creates and maintains Screen Designs, User Story Maps and Process Flow diagrams in Lucidchart
• Creates and maintains User Stories in JIRA
• Ability to work in the office 5 days each week. (This is not a telework position).
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Oral and written communication skills
• Interpersonal, consultative and facilitation skills
• Critical Analysis Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Technical Awareness
• Management and Leadership Skills
• Knowledge of the business area that they support, including a solid understanding of the customer s existing business processes and how new technology might support, change or enhance those processes.

Minimum Education/Experience:

• Bachelors degree in computer science or information systems or proven equivalent work experience,
• Minimum of three (3) years of demonstrated, hands-on experience working on diverse data integration projects,
• Two (2) or more years experience in: advanced level use, evaluation and implementation of appropriate tools for requirements elicitation and documentation, integration, and user acceptance testing,
• Advanced knowledge of requirements elicitation techniques, business modeling and use case design concepts, information systems and software development life cycles,
• Experience defining API service calls which includes the ability to define the format and content of both incoming requests and outgoing responses for API endpoints
• Ability to explain complex data flows to a wide range of audiences using diagramming tools to visually represent data movement, transformations, and storage across various systems

Preferred Qualifications:

(Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate some or all of the following skills/experience):

• Project management certification (PMP) through the Project Management Institute/ITIL foundational certification
• Experience with LucidChart
• Experience with JIRA

Required Skills:

• IT Business Analyst Experience5Years
• Experience in software development methodologies, like Agile, Scrum and Waterfall5Years
• Experience collaborating closely with API developers to ensure the defined APIs meet functional and non-functional requirements3Years
• Experience creating clear, concise, and comprehensive data flow diagrams3Years
• Identifying and gathering business and functional requirements for complex software solutions5Years
• Experience working as a liaison between the business partners and development teams to ensure that technical solutions meet the business needs5Years
• Experience working with Lucidchart to create process flows, screen designs and user story maps3Years
• Ability to travel 10% to meet with stakeholders and gather requirements.

Highly Desired Skills:

• Experience working in state or local government, specifically in roles dealing with the Georgia Criminal Justice System