Business Analyst (Local to VA)

Data-Core Systems, Inc. is a provider of information technology, consulting and business process services. We offer breakthrough tech solutions and have worked with companies, hospitals, universities and government organizations. A proven partner with a passion for client satisfaction, we combine technology innovation, business process expertise and a global, collaborative workforce that exemplifies the future of work. For more information about Data-Core Systems, Inc., please visit https://datacoresystems.com/.

Data-Core Systems Inc. is seeking Business Analyst to be a part of our Consulting team. You will participate and effectively contribute to the design, development, and implementation of complex applications, often using new technologies. You will provide technical expertise and systems design for individual initiatives. You will have the opportunity to work with other SME consultants from our existing team.

Responsibilities/ Required Skills:

• Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and pain points
• Develop expertise in source system datasets and data lifecycle
• Profile source data which may contain a spatial component; review source data and compare content and structure to dataset requirements; identify conflicts and determine recommendations for resolution
• Conduct entity resolution to identify matching and merging and semantic conflicts
• Elicit, record, and manage metadata
• 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
• Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff'
• Utilize progressive elaboration; map stories to data models and architectures to be used by internal staff to facilitate master data management
• Identify and group related user stories into themes, document dependencies and associated business processes
• Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog
• Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups
• 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
• Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress
  
• Experience Delivering Business and Systems Analyst Artifacts - Required
• Experience with Power BI - Required
• Experience with SharePoint - Required
• Experience with Microsoft Office - Required
• Agile Business Analyst; Strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodologies  - Required
• Well versed with Scrum and Agile, Scaled Agile and Kanban methodologies - Required
• Technical experience in organizing and maintaining sprint and product backlogs - Required
• Technical experience translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories. - Required
• Ability to analyze and document business and system processes. - Required

Education and Experience:

• The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business data analysis artifacts
• Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs
• Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process
• Experience with Azure Databricks
• Experience with enterprise data management
• Experience with reporting systems – operational data stores, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts
• 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
• Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)
  
• Experience with ESRI ArcGIS
  
• Exceptional experience writing complex sql queries for Sql Server and Oracle
  
• Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into dataset requirements and user stories
  
• 5 years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology

Preferred:

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) and/or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification
• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)
• Experience with Visio - Highly desired
• Experience with Creating Training Materials - Highly desired
• Experience with Ivanti Service Manager or Change Management tool(i.e. ServiceNow) - Highly desired
• Familiar with ITIL framework and processes - Highly desired

We are an equal opportunity employer.