Advanced Business Analyst

Advanced Business Analyst

Location: Tallahassee, FL-onsite

 Key Responsibilities

·          Gather, analyze, and document business and technical requirements.

·          Work directly with business users, SMEs, technical teams, and leadership to understand goals, needs, and challenges.

·          Research and document current business processes, workflows, system interactions, dependencies, and cross-functional relationships.

·          Develop As-Is and To-Be process models, workflow diagrams, gap analyses, and process improvement recommendations.

·          Create business requirements, functional requirements, technical specifications, use cases, business rules, and other analysis documentation.

·          Translate complex business requirements into clear technical specifications for development teams.

·          Facilitate workshops, meetings, interviews, and requirements-gathering sessions with stakeholders at different levels.

·          Support solution design and evaluate potential technical and business solutions.

·          Identify opportunities to improve processes, eliminate duplicate functionality, and address gaps in existing applications.

·          Develop business cases, feasibility studies, executive summaries, and other decision-support materials.

·          Support application modernization, remediation, migration, and sunset initiatives.

·          Identify application dependencies, migration requirements, prerequisites, and readiness activities.

·          Track remediation and modernization activities and coordinate with business and technical teams.

·          Support testing activities, including functional, regression, system integration, data validation, load, and performance testing.

·          Develop and review test scenarios, test cases, and other testing documentation.

·          Ensure requirements and documentation remain complete, accurate, and up to date throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

·          Analyze information from multiple sources and present complex information in clear, concise, and executive-ready formats.

·          Support performance measurement, reporting, and continuous improvement activities.

·          Maintain effective working relationships across business units, technology teams, security teams, directors, and other stakeholders.

·          Communicate technical and business information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Required Education

·          Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Communication, Information Systems, or a related field.

·          Equivalent professional experience may be considered in place of the educational requirement.

Required Experience

·          Minimum 8 years of experience in business process analysis and requirements documentation.

·          Experience independently facilitating meetings and workshops with executives and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).

·          Strong experience with business process analysis, requirements gathering, and documentation.

·          Experience with process mapping and modeling, preferably using Microsoft Visio.

·          Strong experience with Microsoft Office, especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.

·          Experience translating business requirements into technical specifications.

·          Knowledge of data migration practices.

·          Experience with software testing and quality assurance methods and tools.

·          Knowledge of change and release management processes.

·          Experience with SharePoint and Microsoft Teams for collaboration and document management.

·          Experience working throughout the SDLC.

·          Experience working with both technical and business teams in complex environments.

Preferred Experience

·          Experience with Azure DevOps for managing user requirements, work items, and backlogs.

·          Experience with Power BI.

·          Knowledge of Florida Administrative Code Rules 60GG-1 through 60GG-5.

·          Experience with State of Florida IT standards, methodologies, governance, and project management practices.

·          Experience supporting large-scale modernization, remediation, migration, or application sunset initiatives.

Preferred Certifications

The following certifications are preferred but not required:

·          Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

·          Certified Scrum Owner (CSO)

·          Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)

·          PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)

·          PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

·          Project Management Professional (PMP)

·          ITIL

Required Knowledge and Skills

The successful candidate should have:

·          Strong business analysis and requirements management skills.

·          Strong understanding of business process modeling and workflow analysis.

·          Ability to perform detailed As-Is/To-Be analysis and gap analysis.

·          Knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices.

·          Understanding of application development, IT infrastructure, and data processing.

·          Knowledge of quality assurance and quality control practices.

·          Strong understanding of requirements management, testing, migration, and modernization activities.

·          Ability to create context diagrams, technical overviews, workflow diagrams, and functional documentation.

·          Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

·          Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

·          Strong presentation and facilitation skills.

·          Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

·          Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.

·          Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team.

·          Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing requirements.

Tools and Technologies

Strong proficiency with:

·          Microsoft Word

·          Microsoft Excel

·          Microsoft PowerPoint

·          Microsoft Visio

·          Microsoft SharePoint

·          Microsoft Teams

Preferred:

·          Azure DevOps

·          Power BI