Business Analyst

•  Provide opportunities and recommendations to stakeholders to improve business processes.
• Gather data requirements through sessions with stakeholders for inclusion in data structures.
• Identify and model attributes for inclusion in system requirements.
• Analyze data gathered to develop processes or product solutions.
•  Decompose business processes and/or data flows into lower-level processes so that the solution may be sufficiently described.
• Map data from existing systems to new data structures for conversion development.
• Serve as the liaison between business units and the IT division.
• Communicate requirements and opportunities to all levels of the organization.
• Collaborate with developers and stakeholders for requirements development, ensuring that stakeholders understand the design capabilities and/or limitations, engaging development staff in the transfer of functional requirements into system design.
• Validate resource requirements and develop cost estimate models to acquire project funding and approval.
• Create and validate the business analysis activity list estimates to develop a comprehensive list of project tasks to assist the project manager in developing a project schedule.
• Estimate project or product needs to determine resources, cost, and schedule.
•  Identify value by understanding business capabilities, how technology can (and cannot) be leveraged, and communicate the findings to stakeholders.
•   Evaluate proposals (RFI, RFQ, and RFP) for feasibility and alignment with agency objectives.
•  Build business cases to align with agency objectives.
•  Interact with project stakeholders to identify and resolve problems.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a relevant major.
• Equivalent combination of relevant education and constructive, varied development experience may be substituted when appropriate.

• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership techniques, production methods, and coordination of people and resources
• Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of business process improvement principles and techniques
• Computers and Electronics - Broad knowledge of state business processes, as well as regulatory compliance and governance frameworks
• Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of application development techniques; knowledge of database architecture; knowledge of data modeling
• Design - Advanced knowledge of design techniques and principles involved in the drawings and models of system architecture
• Development Methodologies - Advanced knowledge of the product/software/systems development life cycle used in the development of software solutions and systems
• Development Methodologies - Knowledge of project management principles

• Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making
• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively
•  Instructing - Teaching others how to do something
• Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people
• Troubleshooting - Determining the causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about them
• Systems Analysis - Identifies components for work breakdown structure and decomposes into an activity list for resource and time estimates

Salary : $75,000