Business Analyst

Scope of Services

The advanced business analyst is a member of a full lifecycle agile development team. The candidate will work directly with subject matter experts (SME) and other stakeholders to translate strategic and operational needs into actionable requirements, conducting thorough user needs assessments, and documenting results in accordance with departmental methodologies and standards. The candidate must have experience in developing working relationships with business office staff and maintaining those relationships through collaboration and teamwork. They will partner with stakeholders to assess feasibility, conduct impact analyses, and prioritize demands based on business value, strategic alignment, and resource constraints. The candidate will be responsible for working with the customer on high level requirements gathering, obtaining project cost estimates, business, cases, use cases, test cases, and other documentation as needed. The candidate will conduct comprehensive business needs assessments and guide solution design processes that meet organizational objectives. They will participate in the analysis of business and technology demands from ideation through project approval. Additionally, the role includes preparing comprehensive documentation to support funding decisions, developing specifications, and ensuring a shared understanding among technical and customer-facing staff.

Education

Bachelor's degree or master's degree in Business Administration, Communication, Information Systems, or other related field is required. Equivalent work experience may substitute for the educational requirement.

Certification in any of the following desired but not required: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Owner (CSO), CBAP, PMI-PBA, PMI-ACP, PMP, ITIL.

Experience

1. A minimum of five years of business process analysis and systems analysis is required.

2. Proficiency in process mapping/modeling with tools such as Visio is required.

3. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, required.

4. Experience working with Microsoft DevOps is highly desired.

5. Knowledge of Rules 60GG-1 - 60GG-5, Florida Administrative Code, is desired.

6. Knowledge of data migration is required.

7. Knowledge of change and release management is desired.

8. Knowledge of testing and quality assurance tools and techniques is desired.

9. Preference will be given to candidates with agile project experience and use of Azure DevOps to manage user requirements and backlogs.

Primary Job Duties/ Tasks

The activities the candidate will be tasked with include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Research and understand business processes and their inter-relationships. Document and diagram business and system processes and dependencies between them.

2. Collaborate with technical and functional teams to develop technical specifications, use cases, and business rules.

3. Plan and implement testing (e.g., regression, functional, data validation, system integration, load, or performance tests) for new and existing functionality.

4. Gather and document goals and objectives related to business strategy and help document them as requirements for the application, infrastructure, and development plans.

5. Assist in the business process redesign and documentation as needed to support ongoing remediation, modernization, and migration efforts in the enterprise environment.

6. Understand technical problems and solutions in relation to the current, as well as the future business environment. Must be able to suggest plans to integrate new and existing processes.

7. Identify processes for improvement, document existing processes, identify and analyze gaps between current processes and the desired state, design new processes, develop process performance measures and plan the transition to a new process.

8. Document business cases and feasibility studies. Facilitate work sessions to elicit and prioritize remediation, modernization, and migration requirements.

9. Evaluate critical information gathered from multiple resources. Summarize detailed data into executive level formats as well as breaking down aggregate information into meaningful pieces.

10. Assess and analyze demand patterns to identify trends, recurring requests, and evaluate feasibility against technical capabilities and constraints

11. Categorize and prioritize demands by type, urgency, complexity, business impact, and strategic alignment using established scoring criteria

12. Prepare comprehensive documentation to support funding decisions, including business cases, cost-benefit analyses, risk assessments, and presentation materials.

Scope of Services

The advanced business analyst is a member of a full lifecycle agile development team. The candidate will work directly with subject matter experts (SME) and other stakeholders to translate strategic and operational needs into actionable requirements, conducting thorough user needs assessments, and documenting results in accordance with departmental methodologies and standards. The candidate must have experience in developing working relationships with business office staff and maintaining those relationships through collaboration and teamwork. They will partner with stakeholders to assess feasibility, conduct impact analyses, and prioritize demands based on business value, strategic alignment, and resource constraints. The candidate will be responsible for working with the customer on high level requirements gathering, obtaining project cost estimates, business, cases, use cases, test cases, and other documentation as needed. The candidate will conduct comprehensive business needs assessments and guide solution design processes that meet organizational objectives. They will participate in the analysis of business and technology demands from ideation through project approval. Additionally, the role includes preparing comprehensive documentation to support funding decisions, developing specifications, and ensuring a shared understanding among technical and customer-facing staff.

Primary Job Duties/ Tasks

The activities the candidate will be tasked with include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Research and understand business processes and their inter-relationships. Document and diagram business and system processes and dependencies between them.

2. Collaborate with technical and functional teams to develop technical specifications, use cases, and business rules.

3. Plan and implement testing (e.g., regression, functional, data validation, system integration, load, or performance tests) for new and existing functionality.

4. Gather and document goals and objectives related to business strategy and help document them as requirements for the application, infrastructure, and development plans.

5. Assist in the business process redesign and documentation as needed to support ongoing remediation, modernization, and migration efforts in the enterprise environment.

6. Understand technical problems and solutions in relation to the current, as well as the future business environment. Must be able to suggest plans to integrate new and existing processes.

7. Identify processes for improvement, document existing processes, identify and analyze gaps between current processes and the desired state, design new processes, develop process performance measures and plan the transition to a new process.

8. Document business cases and feasibility studies. Facilitate work sessions to elicit and prioritize remediation, modernization, and migration requirements.

9. Evaluate critical information gathered from multiple resources. Summarize detailed data into executive level formats as well as breaking down aggregate information into meaningful pieces.

10. Assess and analyze demand patterns to identify trends, recurring requests, and evaluate feasibility against technical capabilities and constraints

11. Categorize and prioritize demands by type, urgency, complexity, business impact, and strategic alignment using established scoring criteria

12. Prepare comprehensive documentation to support funding decisions, including business cases, cost-benefit analyses, risk assessments, and presentation materials.

Education

Bachelor's degree or master's degree in Business Administration, Communication, Information Systems, or other related field is required. Equivalent work experience may substitute for the educational requirement.

Certification in any of the following desired but not required: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Owner (CSO), CBAP, PMI-PBA, PMI-ACP, PMP, ITIL.

Experience

1. A minimum of five years of business process analysis and systems analysis is required.

2. Proficiency in process mapping/modeling with tools such as Visio is required.

3. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, required.

4. Experience working with Microsoft DevOps is highly desired.

5. Knowledge of Rules 60GG-1 - 60GG-5, Florida Adm