Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst

Job Location: Austin TX 78751

Onsite Requirements:

• JIRA, HP ALM, Tableau, and Cognos


• Texas Vital Statistics laws and procedures


• Process flows, data mappings, swim lanes, and use case documentation

Job Description:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining business solution recommendations and translating business objectives into detailed requirements to support the solution.


• Adept at assimilating, integrating, and interfacing technical knowledge with business/systems requirements.


• Produces functional requirements, use cases, data mappings, data dictionaries, software specifications, and systems scope documentation.


• May be responsible for writing test plans, test cases, and UAT quality assurance work.


• Leads teams of analysts to facilitate, document, analyze data, integrate, and train business users throughout the project development life cycle.


• Conducts various types of work in varied client environments with multiple teams, including business and technical teams, and produces results.


• Develops frameworks to address client problems, identifies issues and dependencies, and develops problem-solving approaches to minimize pitfalls.


• Leverages business and data skills and knowledge, performs thorough, accurate analysis, and guides the team in developing recommendations.


• Structures client documents and manages the writing process; writes key sections of client documents.


• Partners with technical leads to facilitate systems development; understands the development process (requirements gathering, design, code, test, deploy).


• Works with the development team to define a best practice model from beginning to end for the development effort.


• Comfortable with ambiguity; flexible and able to be effective while managing multiple tasks and priorities.


• Responsible for user facilitation, business process analysis, data analysis, requirements documentation, and testing.


• Facilitates users or program staff to reach alignment; designs, conducts, and documents meetings effectively.


• Analyzes and documents current business processes; translates business requirements into functional specs, defines and recommends new processes using process flows, activity diagrams, swim lanes, use cases as needed, and acts as a liaison between business users and technical developers.


• Capable of documenting data dictionaries, data requirements for input forms, developing test data, and tracing functional data items back to originating data sources.


• Analyzes data and trends, defines reporting KPIs and metrics, and works with technical teams to develop reports in tools such as Tableau and Cognos.


• Develops test plans and assists or leads system and user acceptance testing with tools such as JIRA or HP ALM.


• Capable of effectively presenting and communicating ideas to clients and leading teams to meet project goals.


• Presents ideas and outcomes successfully with clients; develops effective presentation materials; can present to senior business leaders and users.


• Clearly communicates with all team members; provides ongoing feedback to team members and clients.


• Generates viable new ideas for business solutions; shows creative thinking, reviews the entire process for improvements.


• Builds consensus and trust among team members; committed to meeting client goals; mentors others, including clients or junior staff.


• Attends work on a regular and predictable schedule in accordance with agency leave policy and performs other duties as assigned.


• Actively participates and/or serves in a supporting role to meet the agency's obligations for disaster response and/or recovery or Continuity of Operations (COOP) activation. Such participation may require an alternate shift pattern assignment and/or location.

Experience Requirements:

• 8 years Required: Knowledge of and ability to interpret Texas Vital Statistics laws, policies, procedures, and regulations.


• 8 years Required: Knowledge of MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio).


• 8 years Required: Skill in project planning and organization.


• 8 years Required: Skill in business analysis methodologies.


• 8 years Required: Skill in analyzing and evaluating complex information technology applications, policies, and issues.


• 8 years Required: Skill in developing creative and workable solutions to complex problems and issues.


• 8 years Required: Skill in communicating effectively both verbally and in writing with individuals and groups.


• 8 years Required: Skill in using initiative and independent judgment and managing time effectively to establish priorities, organize tasks, and assign and direct the work of others.


• 8 years Required: Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships, including the ability to work with people under pressure, negotiating with multiple parties, and resolving conflicts.


• 8 years Required: Skill in reading, interpreting, and understanding material to prepare concise reports or appropriate responses for the review and/or signature of section managers and/or directors.


• 8 years Required: Skill in gathering, organizing, and analyzing facts, recommending solutions, and resolving work-related problems.


• 8 years Required: Skill in maintaining statistical and accounting records and producing data summaries.


• 8 years Required: Ability to manage small to medium-sized projects when needed.


• 8 years Required: Ability to create project work plans.


• 8 years Required: Ability to produce accurate work estimates and monitor progress.
  
  ** 3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3rd party subcontractors need not apply.


• This position requires candidates to be eligible to work in the United States, directly for an employer, without sponsorship now or anytime in the future.**