Business analyst (W2, Must be local to MS - Remote)

Client: State of MS
Job ID: 155286
Job Title: Business Analyst - Business Analyst - MS - MDEK12
Job Location: 3771 Eastwood Dr, Jackson, MS
Projected Start Date: 03/01/2026
Projected End Date/Duration: At least 5 Years from projected start date
Remote

Scoring Method - Must equal 100%

• Cost - 30
• Required Skills/Experience - 35
• Candidate Interview - 35

Position Description and Job Skill Set

• This position will require a qualified technical Business Analyst with at least 7 years of experience in the following areas:
• 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 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 specification
• Translate stakeholder requests into formal requirements
• Deliver high-quality business requirement documentation for business manuals, new development, training manuals, user guide, and system guide

Required Skills/Experience

• Must be able to effectively communicate (verbal and written) requirements with stakeholders as well as development team
• Must be able to collaborate with Project Manager, Architect, and developers to ensure business requirements are communicated, accepted, and meet expectations
• 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.
• Must be able to create diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of business processes Must be able to create and manage test cases for Quality Assurance.
• Must be familiar with software and database development concepts. Technical Business Analyst work on a software development team
• Must have experience developing technical documentation for enterprise software users, system administrators, and other technical audiences.
• Strong experience in requirements management and creating all documents listed above Strong experience in mapping business processes into technical documentation

Preferred/Not Required

• MS Visio or similar product Experience in the Educational Domain

Cleo Consulting is an equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled)