Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst
Location: Tallahassee FL (Onsite)
Duration: 12+ Months
Type: Contract

Required Tasks to be performed:

• Understand business change needs, assessing the business impact of those changes, capturing, analyzing, and documenting requirements and supporting the communication and delivery of requirements with relevant stakeholders.

• Lead requirements definitions meetings with DEP customers.

• Analyze data gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.

• Gather, analyze, document & validate user requirements.

• Create Visio process maps, requirements traceability matrices, use cases and other business analysis documentation appropriate to the specifically assigned project needs.

• Facilitate the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders.

• Create, analyze, and validate detailed functional specifications.

• Facilitate design sessions with the implementation team to define the solution.

• Deliver elements of systems design, including data migration rules, business rules, wireframes, or other detailed deliverables.

• Identify any new type of data entry components required. For each new component identified, create and update analysis documentation to include wireframes, process maps, business data definitions and business rules.

• Support multiple moderately complex business processes.

• Assist in the business process redesign and documentation as needed.

• Translate high level business requirements into functional specifications and manage changes to such specifications.

• Work closely with customers, users, and team members to understand business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs):

• Ability to effectively communicate with both technical and business resources and translate business needs into effective technical specifications

• Ability to conduct research into application development issues and products.

• Ability to understand the needs of multiple stakeholders.

• Ability to prepare reports, correspondence, guidelines, and Power Point presentations.

• Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.

• Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

• Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, oral and written communication skills.

• Ability to write technical, business, and plain language documents and/or emails, with great attention to detail in all written communications.

• Ability to work on multiple projects as a project team member, occasionally as a project leader.