Business Systems Analyst

Job Description

Business Systems Analyst

*Local to Richmond, VA only please

*This is a hybrid position with 2-3 days/week onsite

Description:

The clients Information Technology Division (ITD) is seeking a Business Systems Analyst to work as a key member of Design and Investment planning Team for IT projects.

This analyst will support teams working in Agile Sprint as well as traditional Waterfall methodologies for Software Development Lifecycle SDLC.

Responsibilities include analyzing problems documenting business processes developing requirements user stories and acceptance criteria and managing requirements traceability and testing.

The client is a fast-paced organization with very high standards for work quality and efficiency.

This position is expected to handle multiple projects and remain flexible and productive despite changing priorities and processes.

Ongoing improvement and efficiency is a part of our culture and each team member is expected to proactively contribute to process improvements.

This position is also expected to handle small-scale projects or workstreams as a project coordinator.

Responsibilities:

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 solutions 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.

Skills/Knowledge/Experience:

The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts.

5 years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology

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

Expertise with Microsoft Office products Word Excel Access Outlook Visio PowerPoint Project Server

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.

Preferred Skills/Knowledge/Experience:

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 building interactive dashboards and reports using Power BI Desktop.

Strong experience in writing complex Sql queries for data extraction transformation and reporting.

Certified Scrum Master or Equivalent experience running sprints ceremonies.

Ability to manage small-scale projects or workstreams independently.

Experience using tools such as MS Project JIRA Confluence or equivalent.

Technical Tools Required:

Microsoft Office Suite Word Excel Access Outlook PowerPoint

MS Visio

Microsoft Project

Power BI / Tableau

Oracle SQL/ SQL Server

Figma or Balsamiq

Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience:

Extensive experience extracting requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, use cases, Required 10 Years

Agile Business Analyst, strong understanding of scrum concepts and methodology, Required 5 Years

Experience translating business and product requirements into application requirements and user stories, Required 10 Years

Strong capability in documenting and maintain acceptance standards to guide testing and ensure deliverable quality, Required 10 Years

Exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and users, Required 10 Years

Experience creating wire frames and prototypes (using Balsamiq or Figma), Required 5 Years

Expertise with Microsoft office products - Visio, word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project Server, Required 10 Years

Strong experience in writing complex Sql queries for data extraction, transformation and reporting, Required 5 Years

Experience building interactive dashboards and reports using Power BI Desktop., Required 5 Years

Experience in managing projects & Sprints as a Project Coordinator, Required 5 Years

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), Desired 5 Years

Certified Scrum Master, Desired 5 Years

Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt or above), Desired 5 Years

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