Business Analyst III (Contract Contingent)

Business Analyst III (Contract Contingent)

ProSidian seeks a Business Analyst III 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 III leads the effort for highly complex projects and moderate to highly complex programs.

Formulates and defines strategy, business process, and systems scope and objectives for programs and projects through research and factfinding activities combined with an expert understanding of business process analysis, requirements management, business modeling, and business architecture practices and principles. Recommends and applies strategic thinking, 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 and technology solutions to streamline processes. Leads/Provides group facilitation, interviewing, training, and provides additional knowledge transfer to appropriate stakeholders. Provides direction and strategic vision to business analysis framework improvement programs by assessing and providing recommendations to all business analysis related disciplines. Conducts the elicitation and management of business and systems level requirements for projects and employs industry standard tools to manage and test requirements, CM, and modeling to support requirements management and/or business modeling activities. Conducts the knowledge transfer of strategic plans, 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 moderately to highly complex projects. Develop cost estimates for highly complex project/programs. Validate solution(s) delivered meet business needs for programs, projects, and sub-projects as assigned. Possesses analytical skills through educational background and work experience and has the ability to apply those skills to client engagements. Demonstrated mastery in independently applying business analysis on moderately to highly complex projects; strategic thinking, scoping, requirements elicitation, business modeling, requirements management, and feasibility and cost benefit analysis. Ability leading highly complex business analysis efforts. Ability to mature business analysis disciplines as a whole. Exhibits strong communication skills; facilitation, interview, formal documentwriting 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).