ERS - Business Analyst 2

Hi All,

Role: Business Analyst 2

Location: Austin, TX(Hybrid Three days onsite)

Duration: 6+ Months

Client: State of TX

Functional Responsibilities:
Essential Functions:
Identify opportunities for improving business processes to be more efficient or effective and
assist in the business case vetting and preparation of proposals for information management
efforts.
Coordinate the analysis of program policies and procedures to determine their effect on
automated systems and system functional areas.
Focus on business value to develop ideas, including awareness of industry trends, risk
assessments, business continuity, and business capability requirements.
Coordinate and/or analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or
improve existing systems; and coordinate and/or analyze computer system capabilities,
workflow, and scheduling limitations.
Coordinate the service request life cycle through customer-related service request responses,
business requirements coordination, technical specifications and related artifacts review, and
monitors system integration and user acceptance testing prior to implementation.
Coordinate with outside vendors and contractors to complete projects and service requests;
and defines, may assign, and evaluate their work.
Identify potential project risks and difficulties, and designs strategies to mitigate or avoid them.
Review complex project deliverables such as design documentation, test plans, and risk
assessment plans, and provides comments and suggestions to document owners.
Leads and coordinates process change requests and manage a project's scope, acceptance,
installation, and deployment.
Correlate business value and priorities to planning activities and goal-setting.

Minimum Qualifications

Years

Skills / Experience

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Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in management information systems or business administration

4

Experience planning, eliciting, analyzing, and managing business requirements and monitoring throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including regression testing

4

Experience leading simple and complex business process reengineering and transformation efforts that deliver efficiency improvements in quality and customer experience

4

Experience performing a Business Relationship Manager (liaison) role between functional and technical teams

4

Experience leading project teams and/or operational and strategic organizational efforts involving managing changes and stakeholder relationships, tracking and communicating performance, ensuring resource availability and allocation, coordinating third parties/vendors, and delegating tasks

4

Experience with projects addressing some of the following fields: data management, data quality, data warehousing, data modeling, data migration and integration; secure file transfers; enterprise system analysis; enterprise architecture; information security principles

4

Experience working in a Scrum Master role or in an Agile Scrum environment

4

Experience with a variety of system implementations and enhancements supporting business areas that may include: building operations, finance, benefits processing, procurement, contract management, legal, audit, human resources, or communications

Preferred Qualifications

Years

Skills / Experience

4

Experience in a wide range of business environments, including business consulting

4

Experience managing and implementing IT Service Management processes, procedures, and software applications based on ITIL principles to improve delivery of IT services

4

Experience managing and implementing financial systems and/or other enterprise cloud applications and platforms

4

Technical expertise and experience in business systems analysis, system configuration, information security, and internal control frameworks

4

Technical expertise and experience with reporting databases, database design development, data modeling, and mapping

4

Technical expertise and experience conducting enterprise business analysis, such as problem/opportunity analysis, business case and business architecture development, feasibility studies, and comprehensive risk assessments supporting value-based decision-making

4

Technical expertise and experience creating comprehensive system-level documentation, system implementation standards, and training materials for users with varied levels of technical understanding

4

Experience with MS Azure DevOps for requirements management and project implementation

4

Experience with project management software

Master of Business Administration (MBA), CCBA, CBAP, CSM, CSPO, PMI-PBA, PMP, or ITIL certification