Senior Business Analyst

Job Description : Position Summary

The Sr. Business Analyst will be part of a team of System Integration (SI) staff and product vendor and Program staff that will design and implement tasks necessary to transition existing interfaces or implement new datasharing strategies for the new cloud Financials solution. The team will be responsible for business alignment and transition assurance, activities in the areas of data integration, including developing integration transition support materials, requirements, and tasks to accomplish the Team's objectives as part of the overall implementation of the new Financials solution.

This position will be responsible for ensuring that each existing interface business team / organization understands their role during this transition and feels like they have the support necessary to ensure success.

This role works at the highest level of most phases of information systems analysis while considering the business implications of the application of technology to the current and future environment. Duties include developing technical standards and policies to meet the needs of the customers (interfacing agencies); ensure systems analysis procedures and practices are identified and implemented; provide leadership in the development of strategic plans; promote the utilization of technical services to resolve business problems; manage customer expectations; may lead re-engineering team and act as project manager to assist interfacing agencies in completing required tasks.

Specific Duties

• Confer with user community to conduct research and analysis to formulate and define data integration requirements, scope, timing, and objectives.
• In conjunction with the BEST Program systems integration (SI) vendor :
• Provide options for data integration other than the current interface landscape.
• Support detailed mapping specifications from which integration software will be written or programmed.
• Develop "integration materials" that allow business teams of the interfacing agencies to understand current and future interface solutions, such as process flows, support models, data, and testing approaches.
• Support agencies on their inbound interfaces that will be certified with the new solution.
• Review existing specifications for unique interfaces with the agency owning the interface to highlight modifications in the system specifications of the new solution.
• Provide complete documentation for new or modified integration protocols and processes, including operational procedures and manuals as needed.
• Support unit, system, integration, conversion, or other testing of integration deliverables.
• Support the SI and product vendors in building unique interfaces in partnership with the agency application owner

and in testing and certification of the interface for use with the new solution.

Required Skills

Preferred Qualifications

Minimum Entrance Requirements