Business Analyst

Business Analyst

  Not Disclosed

  Tallahassee, FL (100% Remote)

  6.0 Months

  Not Disclosed

  Not Disclosed

  Government - State

  $-4/hour - $1/hour

Job Description

Business Analyst

Position General Summary:

The Business Analyst uses the tools described in the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) to act as an agent of change. The Business Analyst is an advocate for their business partners, ensures documentation around stakeholder goals are complete and thorough, facilitates communication between the project/development teams and business partners throughout the development life cycle, and ensures maximum value is reached by the solutions created.

Essential Position Functions:
Develop a plan to approach business analysis: include all the required information needed to successfully complete analysis on a given effort.
Define a list of stakeholders needed for collaboration on an upcoming analysis effort. This will include needed information and how to best communicate.
Prepare, conduct, and confirm the results of elicitation results: ensure that the project team understands what needs to document, documentation completed in a format understandable by different parties, and documentation validated by stakeholders.
Lead daily standup calls to collect team status updates and help drive accountability among team members
Manage stakeholder involvement: provide a general understanding of information needed, tasks to be completed, and outcomes required during the effort.
Requirements management throughout the analysis, design, and implementation lifecycles.
Prioritize Requirements: through collaboration with stakeholders, owners, by understanding changing policies and mandates, ensure that the value of each requirement is maintained and visible.
Evaluate and communicate the introduction of new requirements in an ongoing effort.
Obtain team agreement on requirements through collaboration.
Document the current client of a business process.
Document the desired or future client of a business process by understanding goals, impacts to the given system, and process changes that need to occur to facilitate change.
Account for, track, and communicate risks that might take place during a given effort. This also includes capturing risk mitigation strategies.
Monitor beta-release feedback to facilitate ongoing improvement.
Meet professional obligations through efficient work habits such as, meeting deadlines, honoring schedules, coordinating resources and meetings in an effective and timely manner, and demonstrate respect for others.
All work responsibilities are subject to having performance goals and/or targets established.

Education/Licensure/Skill/Expertise/Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree in an appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience. Preferred: Industry Certification in Business Analysis

1-5 years of experience collaborating with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements for IT and infrastructure projects

1-5 years of experience in business analysis or related experience

Work closely with IT teams to design and implement infrastructure solutions including networks, servers, cloud platforms, and security systems

Conduct gap analyses, feasibility studies, and impact assessments for proposed changes

Assist in the development of story requirements, acceptance criteria, technical design, and implementation strategy

Lead daily standup calls to collect team status updates and help drive accountability among team members

Proficient in SharePoint

Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications

Proficient in Visio, Lucid, or equivalent

Strong presentation skills

Experience in DevOps, Scrum, Agile, or Waterfall methodologies

Notes:

100% remote