The Chickasaw Nation is hiring: IT Business Analyst in Thackerville

We are currently looking for a Full Time IT Business Analyst to join our IT Business Analyst Team team located at the WinStar IT Data Center.

Summary:
Works with all levels of the organization to elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business needs and documents the capabilities needed to deliver desired business outcomes.

Responsibilities:
* Provides first class customer service - courteous and helpful to all internal and external customer types
- Answers questions in a courteous and professional manner
- Greets and engages with a smile
- Determines needs, seeks positive experience and outcomes
* Completes all training and development requirements and participates in continuing education opportunities
* Works in a collaborative and supportive manner to support the productivity and safety of the work area, team members and customers of all types
- Maintains general upkeep of work area and maintains a safe environment
- Maintains and promotes professionalism
- Punctual and consistent in meeting start time, work schedule, attendance and other assigned work time metrics
- Adheres to Chickasaw Nation dress code standards
* Maintains knowledge of and follows all laws, rules, regulations, policies and SOPs for assigned area, e.g. MICS, TICS, hospital standards, health codes, food sanitation, accounting principles, etc.
* Facilitate and participate in quality peer and stakeholder reviews of requirement artifacts to ensure requirements are complete, consistent, comprehensible, and are signed-off/approved
* Maintain and reconcile forward and backward traceability of requirements
* Serves as a liaison with stakeholders / internal customers of IT, for understanding and translating the business context, immediate needs, as well as their longer-term vision for the initiatives
* Develop and describe a sufficiently deep and comprehensive understanding of both, the business objectives/ outcomes and the detailed requirements of the stakeholder departments
* Proactively work with stakeholder department teams to improve business process efficiency between current and desired state
* Translate conceptual business and user requirements into functional or technical requirements in a comprehensible manner to the whole project team
* Assist with determination of a suitable solution and/or modification of an existing solution, to best serve the short-term and long-term needs of the stakeholders/internal customers
* Develop an understanding of cost and financial implications overall of the business problem and solution options
* Where applicable, assist the QA teams with preparing and executing test plans - Unit Testing/System testing
* Facilitate the business process level UAT with stakeholders/internal customers and securing sign-offs
* Utilize industry standard tools and methodologies to elicit business and user requirements
* Develop and utilize standard templates for requirements gathering and communication
* Performs all other duties as assigned

Competencies:
Essential:
* Able to follow instructions, both written and oral
* Able to adhere to all scheduling and attendance requirements
* Ability to work independently
* Honesty, truthfulness, reliability, accountability
* Able to read, understand, apply, and retain knowledge of Chickasaw Nation, departmental, divisional and all other rules, regulations, policies, procedures and guidelines
* Able to verbally communicate in a professional and positive manner with other team members, departments, guests and management

Skills:

Experience:

Nonessential:
* 3 years directly related experience

Education:

Nonessential:
* Bachelors Degree in directly related field

Credentials:
Essential:
* Pass general background check
* Standard Driver's License

Working Conditions:
Essential:
* Works in an office setting
* Pass pre-employment drug test
* Infrequent travel