What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Business Analyst position at Office of Enterprise Technology Services, State of Hawaii?
Submit resumes to: ETS.Apply@hawaii.gov
Include "Job Number: EX 124267" in your email.
The full job description is posted at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/hawaii/jobs/4556683/senior-business-analyst
Organization Description
The Office of Enterprise Technology Services (ETS - https://ets.hawaii.gov/) led by the chief information officer of the State of Hawaii, provides governance for state executive branch IT projects. ETS aims to identify, prioritize, and advance innovative initiatives to increase efficiency, reduce waste, and improve transparency and accountability. The office supports state agencies by providing cost-beneficial computer and telecommunication services to achieve state program objectives.
Role Description
This is a full-time hybrid role for a Senior Business Analyst located in Honolulu, HI with the option for some work from home. The Senior Business Analyst acts as a central resource and guide for each major project in implementing best practices for successful design, development and implementation of IT projects, including leadership and business engagement, staffing, technology selection, business process reengineering, procurement and contractor selection, security, data governance, organizational change management, risk management, quality assurance, testing, documentation, transition to operations, and other areas, as appropriate.
The Senior Business Analyst’s role is to elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users. This includes interviewing stakeholders and gathering and compiling user requirements to understand the technology solutions they need and to trace the requirements to vendor capabilities. The Senior Business Analyst will also apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help the business make good technology decisions. The Senior Business Analyst will also be proactive about working with the emerging technology to look for new technologies to optimize business processes. The Senior Business Analyst will play a pivotal role in ensuring IT’s understanding of business requirements and communicating those to the vendor.
The Senior Business Analyst will support the SPM Section under the direction of the Senior Project Manager. This position will also support the Senior Project Manager to work collaboratively with and provide guidance and support to the major information technology projects of the executive branch across multiple departments and agencies. The Analyst will collaborate with other project management offices and teams established within departments to leverage best practices and lessons learned across various state modernization projects and initiatives.
The Senior Business Analyst will assist and provide guidance to multi-year and multi-faceted modernization projects and will also further establish the required knowledge base to ensure operations and maintenance of enterprise systems is efficiently managed to effectively service the State and its citizens.
Minimum Qualification Requirements
LEGAL AUTHORIZATION TO WORK REQUIREMENT: The State of Hawaii requires all persons seeking employment with the government of the State shall be citizens, nationals, or permanent resident aliens of the United States, or eligible under federal law for unrestricted employment in the United States.
Knowledge: Possess a broad, enterprise view of the business lines to be able to recommend strategies for change or improvement within processes and capabilities, emerging technologies, and governance. Ability to recognize processes and functional interdependencies and redundancies across business lines and the enterprise. The individual is expected to know and apply pertinent laws relating to privacy, confidentiality, accessibility, and information security practices, rules and regulations, applicable policies and procedures, and other guidelines relating to the access and safeguarding of computer information assets.
PREFERRED LICENSES, CERTIFICATES: PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PBA), or IIBA Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), IIBA Certification in Business Data Analytics (CDBA), or other industry-recognized business analyst or analysis certification