GIS Analyst

Position: GIS Analyst

Duration: 10 months with Extension Possible

Location: Tumwater WA 98501

(Remotely from the candidates home office (up to 100% depending on the phase of the project/ occasional travel to other WSDOT locations around the state may be required)

Required Experience:

• Expert level of experience (minimum of 8 years) as an Information Technology GIS Analyst working with internal customers and agency staff in the planning design development testing and implementation of enterprise scale GIS datasets and applications.
• University level or equivalent education and training in GIS surveying engineering or similar discipline.
• Expert level of experience (minimum of 8 years) that includes process mapping workflow modeling conceptual and logical data modeling business rules modeling use case modeling scope management and requirements elicitation and management for GIS data and applications.
• Technical background/experience (minimum 8 years) that includes configuring highly customized map based interfaces and other products writing programs using GIS development tools and languages data base administration or data modeling in activities such as the design development testing and implementation of a wide variety of GIS applications and systems.
• Technical background/experience (minimum 5 years) with implementing projects centered around ESRI based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies for managing linear referencing systems (LRS) and other transportation roadway or civil engineering data.
• Demonstrated understanding of requirements elicitation and interview techniques with a wide range of audiences including from front line workers to executive staff.
• Demonstrated understanding of requirements management techniques such as traceability matrices.
• Expert level of experience in Microsoft Office applications including Visio.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Prior experience using requirments management softare such as SPARX Enterprise Architect or Jama.

Preferred Experience:

• A bachelors degree or higher in geographic information systems or related field of study.
• Experience in implementing Cloudhosted GIS mapping and analysis Software as a Service (SaaS)
• implementations utilizing Google Amazon or Microsoft cloud hosting technologies.
• Advanced knowledge (minimum of 3 years) and demonstrated experience in the creation and
• maintenance of International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) framework deliverables.
• Experience in the creation of business requirements for Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) solicitations.

Scope of Work:

This position will serve as an expert GIS Analyst assigned to the HPMSLRS Modernization project using expert specialized knowledge experience and expertise in GIS analysis to:

Meet with departmental staff to identify and analyze user requirements for GISbased LRS data and applications.

Elicit and document business requirements using techniques such as:

• Process mapping
• Workflow modeling
• Conceptual and logical data modeling
• Business rules modeling
• Use case modeling
• Scope management
• Requirements management
• Create highly customized mapcentered interfaces and other products such as complex queries to filter data and simple scripts
• Create and configure web services data processing procedures and quality control routines
• Create customized tools and menus for new and existing data compilation maintenance quality assurance quality control and reporting solutions
• Identify and design system interface requirements for LRS and other roadway data needed by other agency data systems
• Write programs using development tools and programming languages

Elicit analyze and document business and GIS requirements and business rules from business stakeholders and business subject matter experts:

• Facilitate meetings with internal customers and agency staff in the planning design development testing and implementation of enterprise scale GIS data and applications.
• Facilitate meetings with business management and staff elicit and analyze business needs from business customers and Subject Matter Experts and translate those needs into business approved product scope (not project scope) and product requirements (not project requirements).
• Facilitate meetings with business management and staff elicit and document current and proposed business process and business rules/logic.
• Elicit and create IT PreProject Scoping Statements (PPSS) for consumption by TSD management in their resource planning activities.
• Identify and apply the applicable Federal and State laws and regulations WaTech Policies Standards & Guidelines and ETPMO Standards & Practices in product scoping efforts with customers.
• Utilize national guidance prepared for state transportation agencies regarding data model configuration data maintenance procedures enterprise systems integrations and reporting needs in LRS and other roadway data product scoping efforts.

Elicit analyze and create business process and needs documentation at a level of detail defined by the project manager and the projects software development or acquisition methodology:

• Analyze business processes business rules and workflows and document using requirements management software such as Sparx Enterprise Architect or Jama to produce business process maps asis and tobe business workflow diagrams IT capability assessments business rules business glossaries for consumption by IT Project teams.
• Analyze business processes and create system context diagrams use case diagrams system use cases domain models and other required IT specification documentation.
• Correlate business and project requirements with sprint tasks in the project DevOps site(s) and actively contribute to biweekly live demonstrations showcasing delivered functionality ensuring compliance with Section 701 requirements.
• Monitor and control product scope (not project scope) and product requirements (not project requirements) for assigned IT project:
• Trace requirements to stakeholder needs and stakeholder needs to business objectives.
• Prioritize requirements with the business.
• Document Baseline requirements for the business.
• Facilitate Business approval of product requirements.
• Facilitate IT project team approval for product requirements.
• Track delivery of product requirements.

Work Requirements:

All work products byproducts and services such as analysis documents requirements documents project charters work plans schedules presentations emails and other project related documentation are the property of WSDOT will be turned over to the WSDOT TSD ETPMO Manager upon demand.

The contractor working as an expertlevel GIS Analyst is responsible for eliciting analyzing and defining LRS and roadway data related business requirements that are vital to WSDOT program delivery and affect various business units throughout the state.

• Contractor will produce Business and GIS Analysis deliverables that are acceptable to the assigned Project Management team Project Manager the WSDOT TSD ETPMO Manager the WSDOT TSD Enterprise Implementation Assistant Director the Washington Technology Solutions office (WaTech) and customers. Deliverables must comply with all Technology Services Division standards for quality.
• Contractor will be responsible to provide the WSDOT TSD ETPMO Manager with weekly status reports and participate in team meetings as required.
• Contractor will be responsible to create and maintain project documentation as specified by the Project Manager Project Management team and the WSDOT TSD ETPMO Manager.
• Contractor will be responsible to provide Business and GIS Analysis deliverables needed to support the project oversight deliverables and reporting required by WaTech under the Section 701 gated funding oversight that this project is operating under.
• Contractor will be responsible to ensure that the data reporting requirements of the Federal Highway Administrations (FHWA) Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) will be met using the data and solutions addressed by this project and that the project results in automation of HPMS data compilation formatting and validation to the extent possible.
• Contractor will be responsible to ensure that the Fundamental Data Elements defined in the FHWAs Model Inventory of Roadway Elements (MIRE) v 2.0 will be included in the data model(s) and will be reportable in coordination with HPMS reporting using the solutions addressed by this project.

Deliverables

Working with the WSDOT TSD ETPMO Manager Subject Matter Experts and Project Teams the Contractor will be responsible for the creation maintenance and submission of such deliverables as:

• Creation and maintenance of System Use Cases
• Creation and maintenance of Logical Data Models
• Creation and maintenance of Business Layer Software Functions
• Creation and maintenance of Business Rules
• Creation and maintenance of the Business Requirements Document (BRD)
• Creation and maintenance of Stakeholder Requirements
• Creation and maintenance of AsIs/ToBe Workflow Analyses
• Creation and maintenance of Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM)
• Creation and maintenance of project meeting agendas minutes and action items
• Creation and maintenance of weekly monthly and quarterly project status reports
• Creation and execution of any required Request for Information (RFI) under TSD ETPMO supervision
• Creation and execution of any required Request for Proposal (RFP) under TSD ETPMO supervision
• Other project related documentation as required by the ETPMO Manager Project Management team and Project Director.
• Creation and maintenance of spatial and tabular data maintenance workflow processes and documentation for those processes.
• Creation and maintenance of business rules for creating and maintaining LRS features including divided and undivided roadways intersections and interchanges and their related characteristics.
• Creation and maintenance of spatial queries to extract information from databases based on location based criteria.
• Creation and maintenance of documentation of data transformations and transfers required for data interfaces or web services consumption to / from other systems or sources.