What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst position at Palmer Group?
A downtown Des Moines-based company is seeking a Business Analyst to join its team ASAP for a long-term contract position. The ideal candidate will have experience across all phases of the project lifecycle, proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, and the ability to manage deadlines.
Work Model:
- Hybrid
What You Will Do:
- Collaborate with leadership, technical partners, and SMEs to obtain and record requirements for Iowa applications and systems
- Create and maintain user stories, acceptance criteria, and design documents within DoIT systems for team-wide use
- Manage prioritizing, tracing, maintaining, documenting, and assessing changes to workflows, system processes, and business practices
- Serve as project manager or quality assurance analyst for smaller projects
- Research and analyze data to identify problems and recommend solutions, including process changes, method updates, or product/service redesigns
- Maintain up-to-date project information, timelines, statuses, issues, and risks for accurate reporting
- Use an agile methodology framework to focus on delivering value while maintaining flexibility to create the most effective outcome
- Participate in forms and database analysis
What You Will Need to Be Successful:
- Process mapping, data gathering and analysis, group facilitation, and full project life cycle experience
- Experience contributing to software delivery within an Agile team environment
- Ability to perform while managing deadlines and shifting priorities
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, and Project)
- Proficiency with using requirement gathering tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, RTC, or TFS
- Ability to analyze user needs and business strategies to document and translate them into clear system requirements
- Ability to lead stakeholders in developing business cases for new functionality, covering costbenefit, risk, and impact assessments