BA with MS Dynamics/Power Apps

Title: BA with MS Dynamics/Power Apps
Location: Remote
Length: Long term
Restriction: W2 or C2C

Description:

Interview Type: Skype *** Very long term project initial PO for 1 year, expect to go for 4+ years *** Remote

Overview

The Business Analyst (BA) is a key member of the Permitting Transformation project team with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). DEQ is the lead stewardship agency for the protection of North Carolinas environmental resources. DEQs Permitting Transformation Program is an exciting, department wide initiative to update and improve the permit process and provide better access to permit information.

The top three PTP goals are:

Streamlining permitting processes to ensure a consistent, transparent, and efficient permitting process across DEQ.
Modernize the permitting system online Create a web based solution for applying, tracking and paying for applications.
Create publicly accessible data dashboards.
As the BA, you will bridge the gap between the business and IT and work closely with PTP project managers, developers, process engineers, specialists in DEQ divisions, and other DEQ and IT professionals to help guide the permit transformation process.

What You Will Do

Be the lead BA that coordinates other PTP BAs while they collaborate with key teams and individuals to identify and produce business, user, solution, and functional requirements.
Facilitate requirements elicitation working sessions
Work closely with data specialists and architects to identify common data elements and attributes for various current state systems.
Produce user stories, story maps, simple user manuals, and related user focused artifacts.
Help conduct user acceptance testing (UAT) sessions.
Create weekly status updates that include recent accomplishments, status of milestones, and risks, and other key activities.
Requirements

Understanding of general IT architectural principles, technical designs and specifications.
Understanding business requirements and translating them into specific software requirements.
Experience with evaluating information harvested through surveys and workshops, task analysis and business process description.
Excellent interpersonal skills
Team player and collaborator with a great attitude
Analytical thinker and problem solver
Bachelors or Masters degree in IT, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
5+ years of demonstrable experience in business analysis work
Commitment to a 40 hour work week.
Willingness to learn about the DEQ organizational structure

Nice to Have

BA experience with MS Power Apps Dynamics CRM in particular.
Wireframing and UX experience
Familiarity and experience with both waterfall and agile project management methodologies

Required Skills:

Understanding of general IT architectural principles, technical designs and specifications 10 Years
Understanding business requirements and translating them into specific software requirements 5 Years
Experience with evaluating information harvested through surveys and workshops, task analysis and business process description. 5 Years
Demonstrable experience in business analysis work 5 Years
Experience with speaking before large groups and in front of executive management 5 Years
BSc in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or commensurate experience 3 Years

Highly Desired:

BA experience with MS Power Apps Dynamics CRM in particular. 5 Years
Wireframing and UX experience 5 Years
Familiarity and experience with both waterfall and agile project management methodologies 5 Years

Desired Skills:

experience serving as the Lead Business Analyst on combined team of analysts and developers (desired) 5 Years