HBITS-07-14452-Business Analyst-Expert

Job Description Job Description

Expert Business Analyst working for NYS Information Technology Services on behalf of the NYS Department of Transportation to fulfill the duties as described below.

Day To Day

• Work with Agency/Business Users to develop/document new business strategies and models.
• Demonstrate up-to-date expertise in Information Systems and apply this to the development, execution and improvement of action plans by providing advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices
• Support and align efforts to meet customer and business needs
• Manage customer relationships and expectations by developing a communication process to keep others up-to-date on project results
• Stay current with customer needs and strategies; utilizing formal and informal written communication methods (for example, emails, newsletters, PowerPoint presentations, executive updates, task lists, updates) to communicate updates and findings; and facilitating project meetings and presentations to all types of diverse audiences (for example, senior management, Customers, technical staff)
• Participate in multiple projects by completing and updating project business and technical documentation; determining daily priorities; ensuring efficient and ontime delivery of project tasks and milestones; following proper escalation paths; and customer and vendor relationships
• Collaborate with team members and peers by articulating ideas and viewpoints driving the resolution of issues.
• Identify, create and facilitate process design changes by conducting business and systems process analysis and design at a complex level; focusing on quality improvement and data management; ensuring data is reliable and valid; developing process improvements or re-engineering and recommending elimination; integrating new systems and processes with existing ones; and partnering with internal and external teams and peers to ensure systems provided meet the long-term business strategies
• Provide and support the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders; identifying business needs; determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes and new responsibilities
• Provide project level analysis – producing required project analysis documentation (business requirements, scope matrix, use cases, sequence diagrams, future state proposals, UAT plan)
• Collaborate closely with developers to implement the requirements, provide necessary guidance to testers during QA/QC process
• Identify improvement opportunities (proactive and reactive)
• Elicit and clearly document business and systems requirements
• Assess business process and system inefficiencies
• Identify ways to increase adoption and customer satisfaction
• Participate fluency in business processes and process differentiation
• Analyze and synthesize business requirements, including recognizing patterns and conceptualizing processes
• Understand and negotiate needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders
• Serve as a liaison between Business, Vendors and ITS to assist or gather business requirements needed for system modifications, enhancement and implementations
• Assist with development and execution of test plans
• Support system conversions, upgrades, enhancements
• Develop Business Cases: gather, document and obtain sign-off on business requirements; work with ITS technical team resources to identify proposed technical solutions to meet the business requirements while aligning with ITS Technical and Security Policies; and, organize the analysis of information about costs/benefits, advantages/ disadvantages, and technical feasibility of designing and implementing proposed solutions.
  
  

Mandatory Qualifications

Business Analyst: Analyzes an organization or business domain (real or hypothetical) and documents its business or processes or systems, assessing the business model or its integration with technology with distinct deliverables to a solution.

Expert: 84 months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field

Requested Qualifications

• 36 months Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) proven experience implementing and managing enterprise asset management systems for largescale infrastructure projects.
• 36 months experience with New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) or any other state. Minimum 2 years working directly with NYSDOT systems and process.
• 36 months Tableau Analytics experience – Advance proficiency in Tableau for creating dashboards, reports, and data visualizations for transportation analytics
• 36 months Data Migration Expertise – Experience migrating legacy Microsoft access databases to modern data warehouse repositories and enterprise data platforms.
• 24 months Geospatial Information System (GIS) experience. Gather requirements for various data components to generate comprehensive reports, map point-to-location data, and compile documentation on conditions within the geospatial information system framework.
• 24 months experience with Document Management systems, platforms, and services, including implementation, administration, and governance.
• Experience in Tableau for data visualization, dashboard creation, and business intelligence reporting.
• 36 months experience with OBIEE Requirement Analysis. Experience gathering and documenting business intelligence requirements for OBIEE implementations, translating business needs into technical specification.
• 84 months working as a Business Analyst with agencies/business areas to understand business requirements to produce functional and non-functional specifications according to Project Management Industry standards and Secure System Development Lifecyle (SSDLC).
• Gather, organize, analyze, and quantify data about customer needs and requirements, costs/benefits, advantages/disadvantages, technical feasibility of implementing new or changed business solutions, and comparisons of technical solutions.
• Translate customer input into information that can be used to make decisions and support the technical solution.
• Experience with process modeling for improving business and systems operations in turn identifying innovative ways to increase customer satisfaction. This includes the ability to analyze and synthesize business requirements, including recognizing patterns and conceptualizing processes.
• Experience data analysis and modeling for on-line transactional processing systems, data warehouses, and/or data transformation using tools such as Oracle Data Modeler.
• Experience writting technical information into clear, readable documents to be used by technical and non-technical personal.
• Proficient experience with MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) as well as MS Visio
• Bachelor’s Degree in business, accounting, IT or any related field