Business Analyst - w/Reporting and Analytics

Role Description

GovCIO is currently hiring for Business Analyst with a strong background in analytical and reporting requirements. This position will be a fully remote position located within the Continental United States.

• The analyst will apply their business analysis, requirements gathering, elicitation, elaboration and refinement techniques to gather functional requirements from the client.
• They will try to learn the legacy systems and interact with various stakeholders to understand the business requirements of the future system.
• They will translate functional area requirements into technical requirements, and support design and implementation of Appian Business Process Model for the client.
• Analyze business user needs and document them as epics and decompose epics into user stories and tasks as needed by the agile scrum teams.
• Analyze information system baseline and perform gap analysis between the baseline, user operational requirements, and the operating capability of products.
• Analyzes user needs to determine functional and cross-functional requirements.
• Performs functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships.
• Elicit and document requirements and specifications from functional users and subject matter experts.
• Translates customer requirements into a best fit within the application, and supports configuration and development Appian BPM product, processes and documentation.
• Develop and maintain standard systems requirement documents including but not limited to business process workflows, Functional Requirements Documents; Requirement Traceability Matrix, and use cases.
• Support application configuration and security setup as needed.
• Implement complex enterprise system configurations and end to end development design.
• Create business process models and identify business process improvements.
• Review and comment on proposed functional/capability configuration for each of the product modules.
• Evaluation and feedback on system and functional design documents, test plans and scenarios, and other associated artifacts.
• Define test scenarios based on requirements; create test scripts to prove each scenario through system and user acceptance testing.
• Ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple, dynamic priorities.
• Effective communication skills and demonstrated experience working in a team-oriented environment.
• Apply HCM knowledge and industry best practices in developing the to-be business processes and procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related discipline with 5+ years (or commensurate experience).
• Functional experience of products in the landscape of BPM, Case management, process automation, workflow management.
• Five (5) years' experience of which at least three (3) must be specialized. Specialized experience includes superior functional knowledge of task order requirements.
• 5 – 7 years of business analysis and requirements gathering skills in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• 3+ years of functional experience in the requirements analysis, design, implementation, test and deployment of Appian or a similar product.
• Experience gathering requirements for reporting and analytics.
• Experience supporting visualization of reports through the business system.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and written with ability to tailor the communication of complex information for different audiences balancing internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner and success working in agile teams.
• Great understanding of technical requirements in alignment with the business needs.
• Experience in creating user stories, use case diagrams, mockups, process flow charts for gathering requirements from customers/external stakeholders.
• Facilitate workshops, conduct interviews and JAD sessions for requirements gathering.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence for requirements documentation.
• Must be a team player and be able to adjust to a dynamic working environment that supports a government agency.
• Must have strong written, verbal, and listening skills.
• Must have strong analytical skills and can demonstrate strong problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• 2+ years of recent work experience on a software development project in a federal government setting.
• Previous expertise in the role of a functional analyst for product implementation.
• 3+ years of experience with Agile Framework.

Clearance Required

• The ability to obtain and maintain a Suitability/Public Trust clearance.

Posted Salary Range

USD $81,850.00 - USD $105,000.00 /Yr.