Title: Business Analyst (Advanced)
Location: Tallahassee, FL (onsite)
An onsite interview is required.
Job Description:
The advanced business analyst is a member of a full-lifecycle agile/hybrid development team. The candidate will work directly with subject matter experts (SMEs), business offices, technical teams, and other stakeholders to translate strategic and operational needs into actionable business and technical requirements. Responsibilities include conducting user needs assessments, documenting results in accordance with departmental methodologies and standards, and ensuring clear communication across involved parties.
The candidate must have experience building and maintaining productive working relationships with business office staff through collaboration and teamwork. Core duties include supporting high-level requirements gathering, preparing analysis artifacts, validating workflows, participating in solution design discussions, coordinating testing readiness, and ensuring documentation remains complete and accurate throughout the development lifecycle.
This role will provide support for modernization initiatives including system remediation, migration planning, dependency identification, environment validation, and coordination with business offices regarding application readiness and testing activities. This includes tracking remediation progress, confirming prerequisites, assisting teams with documentation updates, and supporting communication needed to advance applications through modernization or sunset processes.
Responsibilities:
The activities the candidate will be tasked with include, but are not limited to the following:
- Research and analyze FDOT business processes and their inter?relationships, documenting and diagramming business and system workflows, process dependencies, and cross?functional interactions.
- Collaborate closely with technical and functional teams to develop technical specifications, use cases, business rules, and other analysis artifacts that accurately translate business needs into actionable requirements.
- Plan, prepare, and support testing activities, including regression, functional, data validation, system integration, load, or performance testing, ensuring readiness and coverage for both new and modernized functionality.
- Gather and document goals and objectives related to business strategy, translating them into clear and measurable requirements for application, infrastructure, and solution development efforts.
- Assist in business process redesign and documentation to support remediation, modernization, migration, and sunset activities across the enterprise environment.
- Assess technical problems and potential solution approaches, providing recommendations that support future?state alignment, modernization goals, and integration of new and existing processes.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement, document current?state workflows, perform gap analyses, design future?state processes, and develop performance measures that support continuous modernization and operational efficiency.
- Prepare business cases and feasibility studies and participate in work sessions to support remediation, modernization, and migration planning efforts.
- Evaluate critical information gathered from multiple sources, summarize detailed and complex data into clear, executive?ready formats, and break down aggregate information into meaningful and actionable insights.
- Prepare executive?ready materials summarizing value, risk, alignment, feasibility, and modernization considerations for leadership and review teams.