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Title: Business Analyst SME Level
Location: Remote
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PROJECT DETAILS:
The Mississippi Department of Education has a current goal for every community to effectively use a World-Class Data System to improve student outcomes. This goal has an outcome to increase the availability of quality data to drive decisions that improve student outcomes. We are planning to satisfy this goal in part by modernizing our current student information system along with improving the quality of data in connected systems. This will include web-based application development, and creation of dashboards and reports that will improve access, accuracy and ease of use for all stakeholders.
JOB DESCRIPTION
This position will require a qualified Technical Business Analyst to take the lead in the following tasks:
- 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 and documenting 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 specifications
- Translating stakeholder requests into formal requirements
- Deliver high-quality business requirement documentation for business manuals, new development, training manuals, user guide, and system guide.