Peoplesoft Analyst

Veteran Firm Seeking a Senior PeopleSoft Business Analyst for Onsite Assignment in Washington, DC

My name is Stephen Hrutka, and I lead a Veteran-owned consulting firm in Washington, DC, focused on strategic sourcing, supply chain, and IT Staffing.

We are looking to fill a Senior PeopleSoft Business Analyst role for the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) in the DC Government.

The ideal candidate will have over 11 years of experience in business analysis, the software development lifecycle, requirements gathering, and documentation, as well as at least 5 years of experience supporting the development of ERP applications.

If you’re interested, I'll gladly provide more details about the role and further discuss your qualifications.

Thanks,

Stephen M Hrutka

Principal Consultant

www.hruckus.com

Executive Summary: HRUCKUS is seeking to hire a Senior PeopleSoft Business Analyst to integrate the PeopleSoft HCM Enterprise Application with the Oracle Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) application for the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) and the Office of Budget and Planning.

Position Description: The role will require you to analyze the existing system functionality, business solutions, and business processes in detail, conceptualize and experiment with alternative business approaches, and develop and create service-oriented components and interface specifications to enhance the capabilities of the current agency application.

This involves customer interaction with stakeholders to determine business requirements, documentation of existing modules and new enhancements with business rule changes, extensive unit, stress, regression testing, and quality assurance.

You will work to gain an understanding of the current system infrastructure, security needs, network considerations, and methodologies.

In this role, you will primarily focus on working with customers and team members to elicit requirements, validate and understand with customers, interpret and design business requirements into writing technical specifications, business re-engineering, high and low-level design, test the application, and implement with minimal coaching, perform technical analysis, technical design, unit testing, and deployment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Meet deadlines while effectively managing priorities and communicating progress.
• Participate in specification reviews throughout the software life cycle.
• Analyze dependencies between development projects.
• Work with QA by participating in test plan reviews and attending triage meetings.
• Collaborate with internal teams to produce requirements.
• Proactively monitor and report performance utilization across business requirements.
• Determine the best course of action for meeting business needs and provide consultative expertise to customers on how to best use systems.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
• May coordinate and work with application developers.
• Able to identify the best practices and standards for using the product.
• Deliver support and design for industry-specific applications that require integration with statewide systems or applications.
• Interact with executive-level business users or technical experts.

Position Responsibilities:

• The business system analyst position requires in-depth knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning and budget planning applications, data structures, and business process optimization of application programs.
• The business analyst will work with subject matter experts to elicit requirements, validate, interpret, and design business requirements into writing technical specifications, business re-engineering, developing and testing the application, implementing with minimal coaching, performing technical analysis, technical design, unit testing, and deployment.
• Meet deadlines while effectively managing priorities and communicating progress. Participate in specification reviews throughout the software life cycle. Analyze dependencies between development projects.
• Work with QA by participating in test plan reviews and attending triage meetings.
• Collaborate with internal teams to produce requirements.
• Proactively monitor and report performance utilization across business requirements.
• Determine the best course of action for meeting business needs and provide consultative expertise to customers on how to best use systems.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• May coordinate and work with application developers.
• Able to identify the best practices and standards for using the product.
• Delivers support and design for industry-specific applications that require integration with statewide systems or applications.
• Interacts with executive-level business users or technical experts.

Skills:

• 6 years of experience with analytical skills, critical thinking, problem-solving, and risk analysis.
• 5 years of experience in working with Finance, budget planning, and Business Intelligence Applications.
• 5 years of experience supporting and building ERP applications.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements: Bachelor’s degree or related field or equivalent experience

The target annual salary is $105,000 - $112,000.

Skills Matrix:

Skill | Required /Desired | Years of Experience

Experience supporting that builds ERP applications | Required | 5

Knowledge of Analytical skills, Critical thinking, problem solving, risk analysis | Required | 6

Data analysis Techniques for analyzing and interpreting data using tools like SQL and Excel | Required | 5

Business Process Modeling: Knowledge of process modeling techniques (e.g., BPMN, flowcharts, use cases) using MS Visio | Required | 5

5 years of experience in working with Finance, budget planning, and Business Intelligence Applications | Required | 5

11-15 yrs. BA experience | Required | 11

11-15 yrs. Software Development Lifecycle experience | Required | 11

11-15 yrs. requirements gathering and documentation | Required | 11

11-15 yrs. MS Office/PowerPoint experience | Required | 11