Business Systems Analyst

DataStaff is in need of a Business Systems Analyst for one of our direct clients in the Richmond, VA area for a long-term contract opportunity.
*This position is hybrid, 2-3 days per week will be onsite
Responsibilities:

• Work as a key member of Design and Investment planning Team for IT projects.
• Support teams working in Agile (Sprint) as well as traditional Waterfall methodologies for Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Analyzing problems; documenting business processes; developing requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria; and managing requirements traceability and testing.
• Handle multiple projects, and remain flexible and productive, despite changing priorities and processes.
• Ongoing improvement and efficiency are a part of our culture and each team member is expected to proactively contribute to process improvements.
• Expected to handle small-scale projects or workstreams as a project coordinator.
• Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and pain points.
• Develop expertise in the customers business applications
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis to identify system gaps and deficiencies that require a business, technical or blended approach for resolution
• Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows, context diagrams and data flow diagrams
• Discover and document requirements and user stories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing.
• Translate business needs into detailed user stories, use cases, process flows, and other artifacts.
• Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff
• Strong Sense of ownership and accountability
• Utilize progressive elaboration; map stories to technical design specifications to be used by internal staff to develop the system modifications
• Identify and group related user stories into Themes, document the dependencies and associated business processes
• Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
• Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog
• Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups
• Create wireframes and prototypes.
• Propose alternative solutions that balance cost and benefit and adequately test a solution s feasibility for business and technical compatibility.
• Collaborate with staff, vendors, consultants, and contractors as they are engaged on tasks to formulate, detail and test potential and implemented solutions.
• Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives, test plans and test cases, and executing test cases (including regression testing)
• Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress
• Assist in validating system changes align with business requirements.
• Schedule, facilitate, and document meetings with cross-functional teams.
• Prepare agendas, capture key decisions and action items, and distribute meeting notes.
• Serve as the liaison between business users, project managers, developers, and other stakeholders.
• Provide regular updates on progress, risks, and issues.

Knowledge and Experience:

• The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts.
• Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs
• Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories
• Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development
• Experience with large, multi-module systems
• Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM)
• The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers
• Experience in managing projects or workstreams independently.
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• MS Visio
• Microsoft Project
• Power BI / Tableau
• Oracle SQL/ SQL Server

• Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking.

• Ability to create low and high-fidelity wireframes to visually represent user flows and functionality
• Experience running sprints & ceremonies.
• Ability to manage small-scale projects or workstreams independently.
• Experience using tools such as MS Project, JIRA, Confluence or equivalent.

Required Skills:

• 10 Years - Extensive experience extracting requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, use cases
• 5 Years - Agile Business Analyst, strong understanding of scrum concepts and methodology
• 10 Years - Experience translating business and product requirements into application requirements and user stories
• 10 Years - Strong capability in documenting and maintain acceptance standards to guide testing and ensure deliverable quality
• 10 Years - Exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and users
• 5 Years - Experience creating wire frames and prototypes (using Balsamiq or Figma)
• 10 Years - Expertise with Microsoft office products Visio, word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project Server
• 5 Years - Strong experience in writing complex SQL queries for data extraction, transformation and reporting
• 5 Years - Experience building interactive dashboards and reports using Power BI Desktop.
• 5 Years - Experience in managing projects & Sprints as a Project Coordinator

Desired Skills:

• 5 Years - Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
• 5 Years - Certified Scrum Master
• 5 Years - Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt or above)

This opportunity is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.