Business Analyst II (Contract Contingent)

Business Analyst II (Contract Contingent) ProSidian seeks a Business Analyst II located in Arlington, VA (or surrounding area) to support an engagement for Business Analysis and Management Support Services (BAMSS) on behalf of a Federal Government Agency. The ProSidian Engagement includes providing competent leadership, and highly specialized support and technical guidance for the planning, development and execution of the entire Technology development and Business Analysis and Management Support lifecycle. Serve as a technical expert for Business Analysis and Management Support Team related activities with specialized experience in current Business Analysis and Management Support benchmarks, practices and testing methods. The Business Analyst II leads the efforts for low and moderate complex projects and low complexity programs. Supports the effort for highly complex projects and all levels of programs. Formulates and defines business process and systems scope and objectives for programs and projects through research and fact-finding activities combined with a thorough understanding of business process analysis and requirements management practices and principles. Recommends and applies process improvement and re-engineering methodologies and principles to conduct process improvement programs and projects by proposing, completing, and analyzing business models, data models, and hybrid enterprise models, identifying best practices, documenting and assessing performance measurements, and identifying business process and technology solutions to streamline processes. Leads/Provides group facilitation, interviewing, training, and provides additional knowledge transfer to appropriate stakeholders. Provides expertise to business analysis framework improvement programs by assessing and providing recommendations to various disciplines. Conducts the elicitation and management of business and systems level requirements for projects and employs industry standard tools to manage requirements, CM, and modeling to support requirements management and/or business modeling activities. Conducts the knowledge transfer of scope, requirements, and other analysis information to program and project teams to ensure successful implementation of solutions to client areas. Applies portfolio management concepts including business-IT alignment, prioritization, business cases and market surveys, and project costing techniques for up to moderately complex projects. Develops cost estimates for moderately complex projects/programs. Validate solution(s) delivered meet business needs for programs, projects, and subprojects as assigned. Possesses analytical skills through educational background and work experience and has the ability to apply those skills to client engagements. Demonstrated ability in independently applying business analysis on moderately to highly complex projects; scoping, requirements elicitation, business modeling, requirements management, and feasibility and cost benefit analysis. Ability leading moderately complex business analysis efforts. Technical expertise in one or more business analysis related disciplines. Exhibits strong communication skills; facilitation, interview, formal document writing and presentation skills. Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office tools to support the development and maintenance of MS Excel spreadsheets, MS PowerPoint slide presentations and MS Word documents. Possesses the ability to assess and apply multiple organizational, and management improvement techniques in a government environment. Ensures all work products are complete, accurate and conform to The Federal Government Agency standard. Has the ability to create, assess performance measurements and maintains a comprehensive knowledge of the IT industry, business processes and procedures. Has extensive experience in project management and other disciplines as described in an actual TA proposal. Has the ability to conduct process mapping sessions and identify key control points to be tested. Must be a Certified Information Technology Professional (CTP) and/or a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and/or Certified Internal Auditor (CIA). ProSidian Consulting