Sr. Business Analyst

We are seeking the services of a Business Analyst staff augmentation consultant to assist the technical staff in gathering and documenting the system functional and system requirements for new development projects and enhancements to existing applications for users.

Specific Duties

• Collect, analyze, and document business rules, processes, and legislation.
• Lead business requirements gathering sessions with business and technical resources for complex system development projects.
• Analyze legislation or other business documentation (e.g., policies/procedures, RFPs) to determine necessary IT system changes or changes to business processes required to meet the objectives of an agency initiative.
• Work with business users to develop and implement improved business processes for their application to an IT system in support of agency program policy.
• Work with users to develop or enhance system requirements.
• Prepare or review detailed functional specifications for complex IT systems development or enhancement projects to be used by developers for system coding.
• Participate in the development of detailed functional specifications for highly complex system development and enhancement projects.
• Prepare use cases or other types of requirements documentation.
• Execute the above responsibilities independently, requiring minimal guidance or oversight.
• Assist with system testing.
• Assist with preparation of system change requests.
• Assist with the planning and prioritization of system changes.
• Assist with the creation of training materials.
• Troubleshoot system, data, or process problems.
• Work with development and database teams to identify opportunities for data migration and correspondingly document any necessary business rules.
• Work with development and database teams to identify opportunities for integration and correspondingly document any necessary business rules.
• Prepare mock-ups to provide visual aids for requirements gathering.
• Prepare process flows to document for As Is and To Be business processes.
• Perform basic SQL queries (as needed) for analysis purposes.
• Perform related work as required.

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience with SDLC, Waterfall, and/or Agile Methodology – 7 years
• Experience with writing use cases and requirements documents – 7 years
• Experience with developing business requirements – 7 years
• Experience with developing functional requirements – 7 years
• Experience in business process re-engineering – 7 years
• Highly Desired: Experience in business change management – 3 years
• Highly Desired: Experience with Team Foundation Server (TFS) – 3 years