Direct Client: Business Analyst @ Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Remote

Business Analyst

Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Remote

4 years Contract

Looking for the candidates who can work without any visa sponsorship.

The Office of Technology Services (OTS) was established as a means of recognizing cost savings through the consolidation of State IT assets and resources. The creation of OTS consolidated a wide variety of existing hardware platforms, operating systems, database management systems, networks, third party software, and custom applications.

OTS leads the State’s technology procurement process in order to standardize technology over the entire organization, seek efficiencies of operations, maintenance, and scalability of new products introduced to the OTS suite of services which can eventually be offered to all in-scope agencies.

The State intends to secure temporary IT personnel for job title(s) listed below:

The scope of the proposed services will include the following:

• Compile and complete a business requirements document
• Using Agile methods to analyze and document business functions and requirements
• Consult with management and personnel to identify, define and document business functions, needs and objectives, operational procedures, problems, input and output requirements
• Analyze the integration of business functions with technology
• Perform and/or facilitate business and technical analysis in support of project design and implementation for a team of application programmers
• Identify and document relevant business processes contained in legacy application data systems
• Build out and support the management and prioritization of the product backlog
• Create user stories based on requirements and capture technical requirements as needed
• Participates in all necessary team meetings and design sessions in accordance with Scrum ceremonies

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are mandatory:

• Three (3) years of experience as a Business Analysis including eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business functions, processes, and requirements
• Two (2) years of experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.), writing user stories, and maintaining a healthy product backlog
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Creating requirements documentation for complex projects

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are desirable but not mandatory:

• Experience with government modernization projects, including replacement of legacy regulatory or licensing systems used for permitting, compliance tracking, and financial/reporting functions
• Business Analysis certifications such as PMI-PBA or CBAP
• Quality assurance testing of application software
• Creating operating procedures, user guides, and/or training material
• Creating wireframe/mockups using applications such as Figma