Business Analyst
Business Analyst
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Position: Business Analyst
Location: Jackson MS (Hybrid)
Duration: Long Term
Client: State of MS
Job Description:
Description of Duties
Coach and mentor the development and business teams including the product owner(s) in understanding and adopting Scrum and Agile practices and principles. Mentor team members and stakeholders to foster growth and improve their scrum knowledge. The vendor must provide experienced Agile Business Analysts with a proven track record in coaching and mentoring state development and business teams in Agile practices ensuring effective adoption and implementation. Duties include the following:
Facilitation of Scrum Meetings Facilitate weekly and daily scrum meetings related to upcoming development releases coordinating between multiple legacy systems support teams. The vendor resource must have one or more experienced Scrum Masters capable of efficiently facilitating meetings and ensuring seamless coordination among the different legacy teams.
Requirements Elicitation and Analysis Perform requirements elicitation and analysis from stakeholders to understand and help translate programmatic business needs into user stories or product backlog items that are clear concise and actionable for legacy COBOL Natural .NET and ESB development teams. The vendor must have skilled Business Analysts who can effectively gather and translate complex business needs into detailed and actionable requirements for diverse development teams.
Backlog Management and Prioritization Support backlog management and prioritization with the team and product owner(s) refining and adjusting the backlog as new information emerges and priorities shift. The vendor must provide resources experienced in backlog management and capable of adapting to shifting priorities to ensure the most critical tasks are addressed promptly.
Support for PowerBI Development Remove impediments and assist the development team in analyzing legacy reports and translating findings into requirements for SQL development in PowerBI. The vendor must have expertise in PowerBI and SQL development with the ability to analyze legacy reports and translate them into actionable requirements for the development team.
Maintenance and Operations Support Support ongoing Maintenance and Operations for MDHS legacy systems and their related subsystems. The vendor must have resources with experience in maintaining and operating complex systems including but not limited to modules focused on fraud abuse and MPI integration.
Promotion of Productivity and Process Improvement Work with the development and business teams to promote and support changes that increase the productivity of the team and agency. Serve the team by empowering them to selforganize make decisions and continuously improve processes supporting MDHS legacy systems subsystems and their related ESB services. The vendor must provide experts in process improvement to drive increased productivity and support the selforganization of teams.
Provide Subject Matter Expert Support on SNAP/TANF Programs Proposed resources will be responsible for support and guidance to the MDHS program and technical staff related to defining the vision managing the backlog setting the priority of needs overseeing development stages related to planning designing testing approval and implementation of new systems or programmatic initiatives. The vendor should have extensive experience with SNAP/TANF Eligibility standard operating policies and procedures along with advanced experience with the federal and state requirements necessary for compliance with USDA FNS standards and regulations.
Issue Resolution and Guidance Work with program areas to provide advanced support experience training and complex systems issue resolution expertise. The vendor must provide experts in issue resolution and provide guidance and support to program leads and help desk staff.
Project Management Office Support Proposed resources must adapt to changing project or agency needs and may be required to perform additional duties as assigned by the MDHS Project Management Office to support agency initiatives goals or objectives.
Required Skills and Experience:
The proposed staff must have a minimum of seven (7) years experience with statelevel SNAP/TANF Policies Practices and Standard Operating Procedures.
The proposed staff must have a minimum of three (3) years experience in working with SNAP or TANF programmatic initiatives.
10 years experience working with stakeholders to build and formulate business requirements. Ability to define and implement new system functionality participate in issue resolution and drive process refinement.
Proposed Staff must possess advanced knowledge of USDA FNS Requirements regarding the administration of the SNAP and TANF Programs.
Working knowledge of Information Systems supporting SNAP TANF Child Support and Childcare
Working knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management Processes (SDLC).
Experience working within an Agile Team Environment.
Experience with effectively communicating with departmental program managers and executives.
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