Job Opportunities - Enterprise Business Analyst with CWIS/SACWIS experience in Austin - Hybrid

Role: Enterprise Business Analyst with CWIS/SACWIS experience

Location: Austin Hybrid

** This position is a hybrid position. The worker will be required to come into the office for team meetings and other meetings as directed by the agency leadership. **

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES:

The Enterprise Business Analyst will lead the large portions of analysis, design, and requirements management for a full system replacement initiative. This role evaluates the modules of current legacy environment, defines future-state processes and system capabilities, and ensures the new solution aligns with business needs, technical standards, and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

·      Collaborate with senior leaders to understand enterprise business goals and translate them into a strategic roadmaps and requirements

·      Lead discovery and documentation of current-state processes, data flows, and system dependencies.

·      Define future-state workflows, business process improvements, business architecture models, and modernization requirements.

·      Develop clear business, functional, and technical requirements, including user stories and process maps.

·      Conduct fit/gap analysis for COTS/SaaS or custom system options.

·      Collaborate with architects, developers, QA, and vendors to validate solution design and alignment with requirements.

·      Facilitate workshops and meetings with agency leadership, SMEs, and technical teams.

·      Support RFP development, vendor evaluations, and contract documentation.

·      Ensure requirements traceability and support testing and UAT activities.

·      Maintain compliance with state/federal regulations, security standards, and accessibility guidelines.

Required Qualifications

·      8+ years of Business Analysis experience supporting large IT modernization projects.

·      CWIS/SACWIS experience strongly preferred

·      Expertise operating at a strategic, organizational-wide level, focusing on high-level business goals and strategy

·      Ability to collaborate with senior leaders to understand business goals and translate them into a strategic roadmap

·      Conduct high-level cost/benefit analysis and business case development for proposed initiatives

·      Plan and lead a BA team working on large-scale, complex projects that span multiple business units

·      Proven experience with full system replacement or major legacy modernization.

·      Ability to lead BAs through SDLC requirements ensuring the business enterprise strategic goals are being met

·      Strong skills in requirements elicitation, documentation, and business process modeling.

·      Experience working with state government or regulated environments.

·      Proficiency with tools like Visio, Lucidchart, Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar.

·      Solid understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

·      Experience with large legacy replacements, system integrations, and cross-agency workflows.

·      Participation in RFP, procurement, or vendor management processes.