Business Analyst 3

Roles/Responsibilities:

Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs. Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies. Experienced with business process reengineering and identifying new applications of technology to business problems to make business more effective. Familiar with industry standard business process mapping, and reengineering. Prepares solution options, risk identification, and financial analyses such as cost/benefit, ROI, buy/build, etc. Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs.

Strong experience as a Business/Data Analyst performing requirements elicitation, business process analysis, data profiling, source-to-target mapping, data validation, and complex SQL analysis in large enterprise or government environments. Proven ability to document BRDs, functional requirements, business rules, KPIs, data dictionaries, and data lineage while collaborating with business stakeholders, data engineers, architects, and reporting teams throughout the SDLC. Experience supporting data governance, gap analysis, UAT, and enterprise reporting/analytics initiatives with strong communication and facilitation skills

Mandatory Skills:

1. Strong written and verbal communication skills; Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent work experience) 8 years
2. Experience as a Business Analyst/Business Data Analyst gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements in an enterprise IT environment, including state government or large enterprise settings following formal SDLC processes 8 years
3. Experience analyzing and documenting business processes, including current-state (as-is) and future-state (to-be) process flows and data flow diagrams 8 years
4. Experience performing data analysis and documentation, including profiling, validation, and documentation of data elements, definitions, and business rules 8 years
5. Extensive hands-on experience writing and interpreting SQL (complex queries, joins, aggregations) to perform data analysis, validation, and ad hoc investigation directly against relational databases 8 years
6. Demonstrated experience extensively engaging with business stakeholders to elicit, clarify, and validate requirements through workshops, interviews, and facilitated sessions 8 years
7. Experience translating business requirements into functional/data requirements documents and business requirement documents (BRDs) for technical teams 8 years
8. Experience defining and documenting business measures, metrics, and KPIs, and working with reporting/analytics teams to define report specifications and data sourcing requirements 8 years
9. Experience performing gap analysis between current business processes/data and desired future-state outcomes 8 years
10. Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including development of test scenarios/test cases based on documented requirements 8 years