BSASPEC
UNIVERSAL is seeking a Business Analyst with experience in business process improvement and creating all analyses deliverables for a three-year project in Brooklyn, NY.
Mandatory In-person interview required at client site.
Scope of Services:
- Serves as a liaison between the business programs community and the IT organization to provide technical solutions to meet user needs.
- Analyzes business partner's operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions.
- Assists in the business process redesign and documentation as needed for new technology.
- Conducts efficient requirement gathering sessions with multiple stakeholders to capture business requirements.
- Translates high-level business requirements into functional specifications for the IT organization and manages changes to such specifications. Educates the IT organization on the direction of the business.
- Negotiates agreements and commitments by facilitating communication between business unit(s) and IT from initial requirements to final implementation.
- Requirements development execution, including the elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation.
- Documents and analyzes agency business processes and recommends improvements.
- Documents and analyzes data requirements and relationships.
- Participates in the requirements management processes, including change control, version control, tracking and status reporting, and traceability.
- Proactively identifies risks, issues, and action items leading to possible solutions.
- Interacts with internal and external organizations (i.e., vendors, State and Federal government agencies, State providers and beneficiaries, and other stakeholders).
- May make recommendations for buy versus build decisions.
- Researches business rules, requirements, and models.
- Maintains business rules, requirements, and models in a repository.
Mandatory requirements:
- 6 years’ experience in government IT projects as a business analyst or related duties
- 6 years’ experience eliciting, mining, and documenting business rules, processes
- 5 years’ experience in Waterfall design methods
- 5 years’ experience in Agile methods
- Experience using JIRA, Confluence, SLACK, Bitbucket, and ServiceNow
- Experience in SNAP, TANF, Medicaid Eligibility or other social services programs
- Superb written and oral communications skills, including the ability to write requirements and Use Cases.
- Strong SQL experience
- Possesses expertise in the business unit(s) they support, as well as an understanding of the IT organization's systems and capabilities.
- Possesses an understanding of technological trends and uses this knowledge to bring solutions to business units supported to enhance the enterprise's competitive edge.
- Experience and ability to obtain business processes and requirements information by interviewing business personnel and extracting requirements from regulations and/or policy documents.
- Knowledge of formal business process documentation.
- Understanding of business modeling techniques, including the use of graphical process flow software.