Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst Location: Atlanta, GA (100% Onsite) Type: W2 Contract
Duration: 13 months

Required Education:
Bachelor's degree in computer science or information systems

Preferred Certification:
Project management certification (PMP) through the Project Management Institute
ITIL foundational certification

Required Experience, Knowledge, and Skills:
Nine (9) years of relevant business analysis/information systems experience
IT Business Analyst Experience (5 Years)
Meeting Facilitation (5 Years)
Identifying and gathering business and functional requirements for complex software solutions (5 Years)
Experience working as a liaison between the business partners and development teams to ensure that technical solutions meet the business needs (5 Years)
Experience working with Lucidchart to create process flows, screen designs and user story maps (5 Years)
Experience writing and maintaining user stories in JIRA (3 Years)
Experience working in state or local government, specifically in roles dealing with the Client Criminal Justice System
Experience in software development methodologies, like Agile, Scrum and Waterfall (5 Years)
Ability to travel 10% to meet with stakeholders and gather requirements

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 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 deliver training.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

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  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
  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 in order 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 the resulting business requirements are thorough and accurate
  Creates and maintains Screen Designs, User Story Maps, and Process Flow diagrams in Lucidchart
  Creates and maintains User Stories in JIRA