ABC - Business Systems Analyst

Engagement Type

Contract

Short Description

ABC Senior BSA

ON SITE REQUIRED: 3 days/week (NO Exceptions). Parking IS provided on site for contractors

Complete Description

3 days/week ON SITE required from Day 1. No Exceptions! Pls make sure they understand they will be required to come to the office. This is not (and will never be) a 100% remote role.

Parking IS PROVIDED (at no cost) to contractors at their new facility in Mechanicsville.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a BSA role which is NOT the same as a BA role and calls for a seasoned Senior Business Analyst ALONG WITH Systems Analyst experience.

Suitable candidates must be comfortable working in a highly dynamic collaborative work environment to meet the needs of multiple business lines and supporting a portfolio comprised of a wide variety of custom applications and thirdparty platforms and integrations.

As a Senior Business Systems Analyst on the team you will be responsible for ensuring that business needs are well understood documented and communicated to the technical resources responsible. Assignments may include analysis and design of new features and platform implementation as well as partnering with both business stakeholders and technical resources to prioritize manage troubleshoot and implement small to mediumsize enhancement. Problemsolving and triage support for urgent production break fix resolution is also required.

The applicant will perform a variety of tasks simultaneously working in a matrixed environment. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. The applicant must rely on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. In addition the analyst will be responsible for mentoring and assisting junior members of the team as they work to grow their BSA skillset.

Candidates will be expected to:

Workplace Fundamentals
Demonstrate excellent meeting facilitation and time management during the course of assignments
Demonstrate flexibility in dealing with shifting priorities and the ability to manage and balance multiple assignments at the same time
Competently and professionally interact with set expectations and resolve requirements & prioritization conflicts with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
Have excellent level appropriate and concise communication skills

BSA Skills

Perform & appropriately scale BSArelated tasks & activities for work efforts of various sizes (from small maintenance items and defects to large projects)
Ensure SDLC processes are being followed
Product thorough User Stories with sufficient Acceptance Criteria Development and Specification necessary to support the product owner SME development and quality assurance stakeholders
Acquire full understanding of business vision for project enhancements and defect remediation
Make recommendations to business on best practices
Provide business analysis support for project requests making sure to examine build vs. buy options that may be available and align with business strategic goals including cost / benefit analysis for new efforts.
Effectively use various elicitation techniques (JAD sessions interviews surveys shadowing etc.) to ensure that the true business need and intent is understood and well documented. (RFPs SOWs business requirements business processes flows etc)
Formulate and document wellformed user stories with detailed acceptance criteria
Understand how change to a component/application impacts the whole system and make recommendations for the logical design of system enhancements
Provide design support for technical teams in planning and execution of project design sessions prior to development iterations to identify and specify logical system design
Work with Development Lead / System Engineer as liaison to communicate business requirements through elicitation of additional technical requirements
Gather integration requirements for data to include identification and assessment of data sources and creation of source/target mappings
Adapt current integration processes to accommodate changes in source systems and new business user requirements
Partner with technical and quality assurance resources to ensure that requirements are implemented and tested per the acceptance criteria
Assist Product Owners with UAT planning and execution integrated with QA test planning (as needed)

Additional Skills:
Proficiency with Microsoft 365 Applications for Enterprise (Word Excel PowerPoint Visio)
Proven knowledge of Web Application Concepts
Proven knowledge of Client / Server Application Concepts
Effective Meeting Facilitation Conflict Resolution and Negotiation skills
Mentor & provide guidance to junior members of the team
Experience with HR systems and eCommerce implementation

Required/Desired Skills

Skill Required/Desired Amount of Experience Writes clear accurate and measurable requirements in the format of user stories with acceptance criteria Required 5 Years Creates and maintains documentation used to communicate business process information system functionality and other materials needed for support Required 5 Years Experience writing interface requirements and related documentation such as source to target mapping Required 3 Years Facilitates leads and participates in effective meetings to understand the problem/opportunity gather requirements and faciliate UAT Required 5 Years Writes basic SQL queries (select statements only) to find analyze and summarize data findings Required 2 Years Experience learning new systems processes and procedures Required 5 Years Balances multiple complex assignments with minimal assistance Required 5 Years Tracks down the source & details surrounding a problem/opportunity accurately analyzes it and clearly identifies the activities needed to address it. Required 5 Years Full SDLC experience on agile waterfall and hybrid methodologies Required 5 Years Ability to read and interpret vendor API information Highly desired 2 Years Experience working with and partnering with vendor support Highly desired 2 Years Experience using Atlassian JIRA to manage requirements Highly desired 2 Years

Questions

Description Question 1 Commonwealth of Virginia security policies prohibit the use of offshore IT contractors. Do you attest to the fact that your candidate will physically reside within the US for the duration of the assignment Question 2 Please list candidates email address. Question 3 In what city and state does your candidate CURRENTLY reside Pls note: if you put Richmond VA and phn# and resume entries do not support this then pls help your candidate by uploading a recent utility bill or Drivers license with their name and local RVA address AT TIME OF SUBMITTAL under the Reference Tab in Vector. This saves time and helps us to confirm they are truly local to RVA. Tks! Question 4 If selected role requires the candidate be ON SITE 3 days a week (no exceptions). Does your candidate agree to this arrangement Question 5 Does your candidates resume reflect details around their Business SYSTEMS Experience (team is looking for this exp vs that of a BA). This detail around systems MUST BE supported within the resume or they will be rejected.