Business Analyst

***Only qualified Business Analyst candidates located in the Des Moines, IA area to be considered due to the position requiring an onsite presence***

Required Education:
Bachelor s degree in management information systems, Business, or related field, and/or relevant experience

Required Skills:
Experience working on large, complex IT systems (8 Years)
Experience eliciting requirements, writing user stories and design documents, defining acceptance criteria, testing outcomes, and facilitating
communication between business stakeholders, developers, and project teams (8 Years)
Experience with SDLC procedures and system development methodologies (8 Years)
Experience managing stakeholder expectations and priorities (8 Years)
Experience working within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates, and reporting) (8 Years)
Excellent task management skills. Ability to balance and manage multiple tasks, with changing priorities, in a cross-functional environment (8 Years)
Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects, and project activities, simultaneously, while meeting established deadlines (8 Years)
Experience with Microsoft development platforms and software (8 Years)
Experience in an Agile environment (6 Years)
Experience with Application Lifecycle Management [ALM] tools; Microsoft s Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
Azure DevOps (ADO), Atlassian s Jira, IBM s Rational Team Suite (RTC) (5 Years)
Working experience with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio or other relational database software (5 Years)
Familiarity with advanced information management practices, data modeling standards, and/or architecture design and analysis (3 Years)
Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact with a diverse group of team members, including executives, managers, IT professionals, and subject matter experts
Experience in process mapping, group facilitation, data gathering and analysis, and all phases of a project life cycle (requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, training, and measuring effectiveness)
Experience delivering software as part of an Agile delivery team
Strong ability to work effectively and autonomously against deadlines and potential priority shifts
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio
Experience with requirement gathering software such as Azure DevOps, TFS, Jira, or RTC
Ability to analyze business strategies and user needs

Job Responsibilities:
Working directly with business leaderships, SMEs, and technical partners on system aligned teams, to gather and document requirements for various Iowa applications and systems
Creating, presenting and maintaining user stories, acceptance criteria and designing documents in client-defined systems to be used by team members at all levels
Directly responsible for documenting, tracing, maintaining, prioritizing, and assessing changes to business practices, workflows, and associated system processes
May act in the role of project manager / quality assurance analyst for smaller efforts
Conducting research to query data, analyze problems, and determine solutions, such as the installation of alternate methods and procedures, implementing changes in processing methods, or the redesign of products or services
Consistently updating project information, statuses, risks, issues, and timelines for reporting purposes
Working within an agile methodology framework with a focus on delivering value while adjusting rapidly to produce the most effective outcome
May be called upon to participate in database and forms analysis