What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst position at ePATHUSA?
Seeking a Business Analyst who will be responsible for documenting home-grown systems in IFA/IEDA/TG for future modernization. The resource will be expected to:
- Working directly with business leaderships, SMEs, and technical partners on system-aligned teams, to gather and document requirements for various Iowa applications and systems.
- Creating, presenting, and maintaining user stories, acceptance criteria and designing documents in DoIT defined systems to be used by team members at all levels.
- Directly responsible for documenting, tracing, maintaining, prioritizing, and assessing changes to business practices, workflows, and associated system processes.
- May act in the role of project manager / quality assurance analyst for smaller efforts.
- Conducting research to query data, analyze problems, and determine solutions, such as the installation of alternate methods and procedures, implementing changes in processing methods, or the redesign of products or services.
- Consistently updating project information, statuses, risks, issues, and timelines for reporting purposes.
- Working within an agile methodology framework with a focus on delivering value while adjusting rapidly to produce the most effective outcome.
May be called upon to participate in database and forms analysis. -
Requirements
Skills
Required/Preferred
Years
Candidate Experience
Experience working on large, complex IT systems
Required
8
Experience eliciting requirements, writing user stories and design documents, defining acceptance criteria, testing outcomes, and facilitating communication between business stakeholders, developers, and project teams.
Required
8
Experience with SDLC procedures and system development methodologies.
Required
8
Experience managing stakeholder expectations and priorities.
Required
8
Experience working within a project governance structure (methodology, required templates, and reporting).
Required
8
Excellent task management skills. Ability to balance and manage multiple tasks, with changing priorities, in a cross-functional environment.
Required
8
Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects, and project activities, simultaneously, while meeting established deadlines.
Required
8
Experience with Microsoft development platforms and software.
Required
8
Experience in an Agile environment.
Required
6
Experience with Application Lifecycle Management [ALM] tools; Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Azure DevOps (ADO), Atlassian’s Jira, IBM’s Rational Team Suite (RTC).
Required
5
Working experience with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio or other relational database software.
Required
5
Familiarity with advanced information management practices, data modeling standards, and/or architecture design and analysis.
Required
3
Bachelor’s degree in management information systems, Business, or related field, and/or relevant experience
Required
8
Benefits
Benefit Package includes:
- Paid Sick Time
- Insurance for Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Available
- 401(k) including Employer Match
- HSA, Short-term & Long-term Disability Available
- We are an EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer