Business Analyst

Job: Business Analyst

Location: Columbia, SC ( Onsite)

• Lead discovery sessions, interviews, and workshops with IT teams and County stakeholders.
• Inventory existing technical, operational, security, system, application, infrastructure, and recovery documentation.
• Analyze and document current-state business and IT processes, workflows, roles, dependencies, handoffs, and pain points.
• Create process maps, workflow diagrams, data/process flows, inventories, matrices, and other analysis artifacts using Microsoft Visio and Microsoft 365.
• Identify documentation gaps, single points of knowledge, process risks, inconsistencies, and opportunities for standardization.
• Gather, organize, validate, and prioritize requirements for SOPs, runbooks, knowledge articles, system documentation, and recovery documentation.
• Translate SME knowledge into clear, structured source material and collaborate closely with the Technical Writer.
• Facilitate review and validation sessions to ensure documented processes accurately reflect County operations.
• Maintain a documentation backlog, status tracking, priorities, ownership, and dependencies.
• Support development of documentation standards, templates, governance, ownership, review cycles, and repository organization.

REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):

• 10+ years of demonstrated business analysis experience in complex IT or technology environments.
• Strong requirements elicitation, interviewing, facilitation, and stakeholder- management skills.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft 365, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and related collaboration tools.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Visio for process mapping, workflow documentation, and technical/business diagrams.
• Experience working with technical SMEs across infrastructure, applications, service delivery, cybersecurity, or similar IT disciplines.