Technical Business Analyst (Required Arizona Candidates)

The Technical Business Analyst's primary objective is helping business customers implement technology solutions in a cost-effective and technically feasible way by determining the requirements of a project or program, and communicating them clearly to stakeholders, facilitators, and partners.

Candidates submitted for technical business analysis roles at IT must have excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences and must have expertise working on SCRUM teams in Agile environments

Job Duties:

Understand what business units (internal customers) do, how goals are accomplished, and key process dependencies that may exist; participate in the QA process by understanding the implementation and helping to define test cases based on user requirements; support development teams in obtaining clarification of requirements/features from business units in a timely manner to avoid delays in the development cycle

Identify, document, and communicate complex requirements across systems and business domains using ADE IT specified formats to ensure continuity of requirement documents across projects

Prepare business process maps, high-level workflows, use cases, functional specifications, wireframes, process flow diagrams, identify/suggest feature requirements, develop user stories, and report mock-ups; identify business processes for redesign; determine how to improve existing business process; identify modifications to automated processes

Develop Agile Product Backlog items for presentation to development teams and business owners including appropriate assumptions, acceptance criteria, user/system details, and non-functional requirements, as well as facilitate backlog grooming and sprint planning

Understand the integration of processes across domains, scope, charter, and plans

Other duties as assigned as related to the position

Skills Required

Knowledge in:

Strong knowledge, skill, and experience associated with analysis of business processes of IT system applications, including system design and implementation in a full life cycle project development arena

Work with complex requirements across systems and business domains using specified formats to ensure continuity of requirement documents across projects

Proficiency in facilitating backlog grooming and sprint planning

Experience working on an Agile/Scrum team

Experience gathering requirements for API rules

How to read and / or write basic SQL statements

Relational databases and database structures

Develop Agile Product Backlog items for presentation to development teams and business owners including appropriate assumptions, acceptance criteria, user/system details, and non-functional requirements

Develop and maintain Agile Product Backlogs

Experience generating requirements from business units and using business requirement documents

Process improvement, workflow, benchmarking, and/or evaluation of business processes required

Strong experience in eliciting, detailing, documenting, and validating requirements

Strong understanding of lean methodologies like Agile, Scrum as well as Waterfall

Skills Preferred

Preference will be given to those applicants with:

Application development in IT departments in government or the private sector

Education industry and working knowledge of Microsoft Team Foundation Server

Knowledge of current Microsoft .NET technologies including SQL and SharePoint

Scrum certification and IIBA certification

Knowledge of current Microsoft .NET technologies including C#, VB.NET, ASP.Net, and SharePoint highly preferred

Working knowledge of Microsoft Team Foundation Services preferred

Experience Required

Minimum of 4 years' practical experience in technical business analysis required

Applicants must have a minimum of three years' experience in scrum/agile environments

How to read and / or write basic SQL statements

Required Skills

• 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst
• Basic SQL experience

Preferred Skills

• Power BI experience
• Knowledge of current Microsoft .NET technologies including C#, VB.NET, ASP.Net, and SharePoint
• Agile/Scrum environments
• LinkedIn Profile at the top of the resume