What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst position at SkySys?
Business Analyst
Hybrid in Lansing, MI
Long term contract - 18 months contract
Among other things, this project resource will work with the client Department of Corrections to review, analyze, evaluate, validate, organize, coordinate, and lead MDOC, Agency Services, and DTMB teams to cleanse, and migrate legacy system data to a new enterprise-level software solution replacing numerous aging legacy systems.
Among other things, this project resource will review, analyze, evaluate, validate, organize, coordinate, and lead the activities of MDOC, Agency Services, and DTMB teams to cleanse, and migrate legacy system data to vendor hosted SaaS sophisticated enterprise-level software suites. This resource must be experienced in coordinating and communicating the efforts of multiple groups of technical and business groups (e.g. enterprise architecture analysts, database administrators, data scientists, business analysts, ETL developers, business subject matter experts, quality assurance and testing resources, and end users) in conjunction with third-party software vendors. This project resource will also be responsible for using Azure DevOps to track all assigned tasks. This position will work within DTMB Agency Services and report to the manager leading the appropriate team.
Demonstrable leadership and communication skills will be a highly desired skill set. A special emphasis will be placed on leadership and communication skills required to ensure clear, concise, and correct data cleansing and migration requirements; and design, development, testing, and deployment activities are completed by the technical and business teams. Data cleansing and migration activities must be completed prior to the project's quality assurance team conducting large-scale testing efforts.
This position has a high probability of being extended past the end date listed above.
Additional Responsibilities : Preform additional business analyst duties as assigned. Please note : We are looking for a true business analyst as opposed to a data migration developer.
Top Skills & Years of Experience :
1) Experience in coordinating and leading multiple technical and business teams with data cleansing and migration efforts within the context of a large software implementation project.
2) Experience documenting data cleansing and migration plans, and explaining such plans to technical teams, business teams, and vendors.
3) Experience understanding and creating relational database schema, SQL, formal descriptions of data, data structures, and data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams, data dictionaries, data dependencies, and data relationships.
4) Experience in identifying data cleansing and migration risks and assisting in the resolution of project issues.
