Job Title: Business Analyst 3
Location: Lansing, MI
Duration: 6 Months
Job Description:
This Business Analyst position is a staff augmentation to serve the IT needs of our Quality of Life agencies. It is for the RIDE project.
Reviews, analyzes, evaluates, and documents business systems and user needs. Formulates systems and/or solutions to parallel overall business strategies. Experienced with business process reengineering and identifying new applications of technology to address business problems and make business more effective and efficient.
Familiar with industry standards (including Legacy, Core, and Emerging technologies), business process mapping, and reengineering. Prepares solution options, risk identification, and financial analyses such as cost/benefit, ROI, buy/build, etc. Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs.
Prepare and document Functional and Technical Specifications for solutions including reporting and data warehouse work. Assist with business intelligence support and enhancements. Develops and/or provides language for Request for Proposals (RFPs). Assist in deployment and management of end-user reporting tools and platforms. Work with IT and business project teams to understand reporting and data requirements and propose solutions. Document and provide knowledge transfer to the rest of the Team for all solutions.
Requires knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within the Business Analyst field. Familiar with relational database concepts and client-server concepts. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. Works under general supervision; reports to a manager and typically works with a project manager. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required.
Required/Desired Skills
Skill Matrix
| Skill Matrix |
| Technology | Years of Experience |
| Overall IT Experience | |
| Communication (1 - 10) | |
| Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions and use cases. | |
| Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and decompose high-level information into details. | |
| Effective written and oral communication | |
| Experienced with projects using the Agile philosophy and Scrum methodology | |
| Familiar with industry standards (including Legacy, Core, and Emerging technologies), business process mapping, and reengineering. | |
| Experience assisting in deployment and management of end-user reporting tools and platforms. | |
| Develops and/or provides language for Request for Proposals (RFPs). | |
| Experience with projects with custom applications. | |
| Experience with Microsoft Azure Dev Ops or Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) | |