IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This position requires the candidate to be engaged exclusively on Maxpath Technologies’ W-2 payroll. Engagements via 1099 or third-party/sub-vendor arrangements are not accepted.
Candidate Location: Candidate MUST be a resident in the Eastern Time Zone AND be willing to relocate to SC prior to starting the role at their own expense.
Recruiters: Strictly W-2 only. We will not consider C2C or third-party submissions.
The State of South Carolina is looking for a Business Analyst - Project Lead
- Why is this position open: This is a new position to focus on Public Health Financial and Administrative systems.
- Interview Process: 1 round, Virtual/Online
- Duration of the Contract: 12 months
- Possibility for Extension: Yes
- Work Location: Hybrid (4 days in office, 1 day remote). Candidate is expected to be fully onsite during the training period.
Candidate Location: Candidate MUST be a resident in the Eastern Time Zone AND be willing to relocate to SC prior to starting the role at their own expense.
Candidates should be self-motivated, team-oriented, work under limited supervision, and respond to priority tasks as needed. Candidates must also be able to form productive working relationships with individuals from diverse backgrounds and at all organizational levels.
SCOPE OF THE PROJECT:
Due to the volume of agency financial and administrative systems that need to be migrated to agency standard platforms, upgrade and streamline upgrade aged components, and modernization efforts, additional staff is needed to support these efforts and system implementation. The team will work to align business needs with current and future state to ensure systems are set up and supported following industry best practices to ensure strategic initiatives and compliance with federal and state regulatory laws and ensure business continuity. This position will be a part of the team responsible for supporting these efforts and transition to operational support.
DAILY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:
Emphases for the System Business Analyst (BA) candidate will be part of a team focusing on agency efforts to understand current and future state associated with agency financial and administrative systems. The BA will need to learn system capabilities, analysis data and reports, work with system owner and SME to define business and technical requirements, future state workflows, and work breakdown. This role supports project team by performing administrative and project tasks such as developing, and reviewing draft project documents, task tracking, develop test plans, conduct testing, communicating with stakeholders and general assistance for assigned managers. The candidate will work in a team environment with other Information Technology staff and Program Area system Owners and Subject Matter Experts (SME).
Specific duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
• Study and learn system capabilities assigned associated with Financial and administrative systems
• Work with Program Area System Owners to learn their business requirements and needs
• Prepare and manage project documents.
• Scheduling stakeholder meetings and facilitating communication between the project team and stakeholders throughout the project life cycle.
• Support project team to help them complete project tasks.
• Monitoring project progress and creating project status reports for Finance and Operations and Office of Information Technology.
• Create supporting work requests in ticketing system when needed to support a project task or other approved solution like DevOps
• Assist with creating future state workflow and digagrams to streamline processes to meet business needs
• Maintain system protocols by writing and updating procedures.
• Problem solving to resolve minor issues without assistance and escalation.
• Develop of test plans and work with program areas to develop their test plans
• Assist with testing and tracking outcomes to include successful results, issues and/or bugs that require remediation
• Assist with ensuring customer and technical needs are met as the project advances.
• Create a positive project outlook to keep the team motivated.
• Managing project management documents such as, without limitation, the project plan, schedule, work breakdown, lessons learned, or scope statement, as assigned.
• Support team members when implementing risk management strategies.
• Develop reporting and dashboard capabilities using excel and Power Bi.
• Adheres to Information Technology application development standards and security requirements.
• Assist with gap analysis of current state to future state to ensure business and process requirements are meet
• Work with Finance Program Area System Owners and Subject Matter experts to learn their business functions, processes, and needs
• Update SharePoint content associated with system collaboration sites
• Assist with system validation to ensure technical requirements are met.
• Assist with production rollout to ensure minimal disruption of services.
• Assist with the system software life cycle process
• Work with Finance Program Area and IT to present key information for improvements.
• Maintain system protocols by writing and updating procedures
• Assist with development of policies and procedures to conform and comply with agency standard cyber security policy design related to information risk management, designation of data as to criticality, confidentiality, and protection. (NIST 800-53, FISMA, SC InfoSec Requirements , etc.)
The position will be utilized for 40 hours per week for the duration of this project. The selected candidate should be able to work flexible hours where it may be necessary for work to be completed outside traditional business hours.
The candidate will work closely with the Assigned Manager to identify, prioritize, and schedule workload and implementation to IT standards and procedures. The candidate will work closely with Finance and Operations staff and subject matter experts for the system design and testing.
This will also include compliance to DPH security policy/procedures as well as integrating systems when possible to streamline staff workflows, user security, and data correction.
Module support of the project.
• DPH will require that selected personnel sign the DPH confidentially agreement and/or Business Associate (BA) agreement if applicable. All web services must be secure.
• DPH will not accept any offers including an “up-lift” charge. The rate paid per consultant must not exceed the maximum rate established for this position described in the State contract terms.
• Contractors must be onsite during each week throughout the term of the contract.
• Follow agency IT Standards, policies, and procedures to include documentation.
• All source code (compiled and un-compiled) will become the sole property of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. Any source code, data, product, or functionality resulting from this SOW or previously owned/developed by DPH will remain the sole property of DPH and is not to be incorporated into the core product of any vendor's application. Any modifications and interfaces developed under said contract will be not be used by the contractor for any independent project of the contractor or published or publicized by the contractor without written permission of DPH.
• DPH has the final say on all programming choices.
REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
- 5+ Years of Experience with Data Analysis & Data Mining using Excel and SQL
- 5+ Years of Experience with Workflow and Process modeling
- 5+ Years of Experience with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), MS SharePoint
- 5+ years of experience in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), driving and supporting modernization initiatives.
PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
- Experience with security and data classification related to CDC, HIPAA, and CJIS.
- EXPERIENCE WITH NIST INDUSTRY STANDARD INFORMATION SECURITY PRACTICES MS PROJECT, MS PLANNER, MS DEVOPS
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