Business Analyst 5

Business Analyst 5 DTMB Agency Services Supporting EGLE

DTMB Agency Services is in need of a senior Business Analyst 5 to provide excellent customer service supporting both project and work request needs for the Environment Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) Agency. This person will have the opportunity to work on a new IT solution for issuing analyzing and monitoring energy rebates. These IT solutions leverage current technologies and include working with EGLE subject matter experts vendors and the public. Key responsibilities include being the liaison between DTMB and the project stakeholders as well as providing expert facilitation and elicitation and process modeling to help develop strategy and requirements for future enhancements and related work projects. In addition as part of the overall support for EGLE this person will be a critical member of the DTMB Agency Services Business Analyst team participating in various related work requests for EGLE and contributing to the operational activities of the BA team. The ideal candidate will possess SOM DTMB process experience; strong facilitator experienced using facilitation for requirements elicitation/testing and system configuration.

Customer service and being a champion to ease Agency compliance with DTMB policies and practices are key performance expectations for this person. They must be able to quickly gain a working understanding of applicable constraints and enablers and help EGLE navigate those for the success for their projects and work requests. A common day would include attendance in various standing meetings for each of the projects as well as those that include the BA team being able to confidently speak to current activities in each listening to understand needs and helping to provide input that assists in meeting the objectives of the respective meetings. In addition related work will include ongoing analysis of original requirements/user stories in comparison to needs identified in discovery sessions and/or UAT cycles and helping to define potential changes to include impact analysis.

DTMB Agency Services and EGLE welcomes candidates that are selfdirected well organized confident in their ability to build relationships quick to come up to speed on new assignments and able to be flexible and adaptable to changing needs and/or direction.

Candidates must have a minimum of 12 years of general BA experience.

At the discretion of the resource manager this position may include remote work but candidate should plan to be available to report to a Lansing MI job location in accordance with State of Michigan return to office guidelines.

Business Analyst Position General Description:

• Facilitation of requirements elicitation meetings; experience with gap fit analysis and requirements refinement.
• 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 (including Legacy Core and Emerging technologies) 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.
• Prepare and document Functional and Technical Specifications for reporting and data warehouse work. Assist with business warehouse/intelligence support and enhancements. Develops RFPs. Assist in deployment and management of enduser reporting tools and platforms. Work with IT and business project teams to understand reporting and data warehousing requirements and propose solutions. Document and provide knowledge transfer to the rest of the Enterprise Reporting Team for all solutions.
• Reviews analyzes and evaluates business systems and user needs. Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies. Has knowledge of commonly used concepts practices and procedures within a particular field. Familiar with relational database concepts and clientserver concepts. Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. Works under general supervision; typically reports to a project manager. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required.