Job Description :
Business Analyst (Part Time 35hrs
Brooklyn, NY
24 Months
Job Description:
The NYC Schools Account (NYCSA) is an application that engages parents in every aspect of school life. The NYCSA Program team delivers functions, features and data to parents about their children and their schools, within the NYCSA application. The Expert-Level Business Analyst will direct and lead the preparation and analysis the project and define, document, and validate processes and business rules to identify business and system functional requirements that meet key business objectives
Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language, for medium to enterprise level systems.
Document current and future process flows, as well as business architecture documents using industry standards and various modeling techniques.
Create and implement Requirements Management Plan including identification of stakeholders, decomposition of the project scope into manageable units, identification of requirement attributes for traceability, requirements prioritization & reporting.
Elicit requirements using interviews, customer documents, workshops, surveys, site visits, and business process descriptions, analysis of business rules, scenarios, tasks and workflow analysis, and any other business analysis techniques for both new and existing processes and procedures.
Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, decompose high-level information into details, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
Serve as the liaison between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow.
Proactively plan and facilitate the successful implementation of the product, service, or end result of the program or project
Work with project management staff members to raise and resolve issues, set project deadlines, and mitigate project risks.
Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
Works independently with users and various stakeholders to define concepts, processes, and requirements and under direction of project managers
Candidates should have at least 84 months experience and a majority of the following should apply:
Each candidate should fill out the months of experience they have for each item in the table:
1. 84+ months of Analytical and process re-engineering skills required, must include experience solving customer problems and translating business needs into business, functional, application and operational requirements. #of months
2. Candidate requires a minimum of 84+ months of Business Requirements elicitation and definition #of months
3. Candidate requires a minimum of 84+ months of Business modeling techniques and standards such as UML #of months
4. Candidate requires a minimum of 84+ months of Use Case/User Story development #of months
5. Candidate requires a minimum of 84+ months of experience conducting requirement management, planning, presentation and JAD facilitation. #of months
6. Candidate requires a minimum of 84+ months of Working with project stakeholders to define and develop business processes and procedures. #of months
7. Candidate requires minimum 84+ months of experience utilizing either Waterfall or Iterative/Incremental methodologies for Business Requirements management. #of months
8. IIBA CBAP or CAPM Certification #of months