Senior Business Systems Analyst

Founded in 2001, Optima Global Solutions Inc., brings over 2 decades of experience and expertise in facilitating IT transformation within industries ranging from higher education and government to manufacturing and financial services. Sporting scalable and diverse business solutions expertise along with deep-domain based resourcing capabilities, Optima has a specialization in Automation and AI, Strategic Staffing and Custom Solutions Development, focusing on the core pillars of process, people, strategy and transformation.

Currently, we are hiring for the following position;

Senior Business Systems Analyst

OBJECTIVE
Provide services for one of the County of Santa Clara's Public Safety and Justice modernization projects of the new Integrated Justice System.

TYPICAL DELIVERABLES
● Research and understand the scope and business requirements of the Integrated Justice System (IJS) project.
● Document requirements in a business requirements document.
● Ensure the development of interfaces for the Integrated Justice System is complete by working with stakeholders and developers to help create specifications, interface design documents, and complete data compliance reviews as needed to complete the interfaces.
● Provide support and complete tasks assigned with the IJS project operational readiness review.
● Aid in completing tasks assigned with training users for the IJS project.
● Complete validation of technical requirements for the IJS project.
● Complete business analysis documentation as need for the IJS project including application user interface needs and integration.
● Create data migration plan and data mapping documents.
● Create User Acceptance Test scripts.
● Support developers and complete testing tasks assigned for testing of both the application UI and interfaces.
● Support business analysts and the project team by consulting and providing hands-on support to ensure user acceptance testing is conducted.
● Provide support and complete disaster recovery tasks assigned for the IJS project.
● Provide knowledge transfer to County resources as needed to continue operations and support for the ITS and IRIS projects.

REQUIRED SKILLS & ABILITIES
● Must have five or more years of experience as a senior business system analyst working on large scale projects.
● Must have 10+ years' experience working in the Public, Safety, and Justice domain working as a senior business analyst.
● Must have strong business analysis skills, including understanding Waterfall and Agile principles.
● Must have strong project management ability to successfully manage multiple tasks at any given point,
● Must have data analysis experience, understanding of indices, fundamentals and analytical data, must have proficiency with MSSQL, extracting data, building queries, data validation, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerBI.
● Must have data migration experience.
● Must have excellent experience analyzing, gathering requirements for system integration of interfaces and data exchanges.
● Must have strong technical security knowledge; specifically, how to comply with criminal justice information system data.
● Must have a strong breath of technical understanding of operating systems, applications, databases, networking, and security systems.
● Must have excellent experience authoring, documenting, and diagramming experience.
● Must have a strong ability to provide mentoring to junior business analysts.
● Must have strong relationship building skills.
● Must have strong communication, and presentation skills.
● Must have strong problem-solving ability.
● Must have strong leadership ability to influence and guide business stakeholders.
● Must have strong teamwork and collaboration skills.

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
● Four (4) year college degree in Information Technology or (10+) years of relevant work experience in the area of business analysis with the Public, Safety, and Justice domain.
● Business Analysis certification such as CBAP, CBDA, CPRE, BPA, AAC.

CONTRACT TERM
9-10 months

Interested candidates, please apply online with a detailed resume and contact information.

Thank you.