Sr. Business Analyst

Sr. Business AnalystLocation: Richmond, VirginiaDuration: 24 months contractComplete Description: To perform the duties above, the Senior Business Systems Analyst will:Lead the review, analysis and evaluation of current business systems, processes and helps client to identify opportunities for improvement.Elicit requirements using various elicitation techniques such as brainstorming, data mining, document analysis and interviews with users.Produce requirement artifacts such as field definition matrix, business rules, interface requirements and activity diagrams.Perform gap analyses to assess the ability of the supplier's solution to meet client requirements and business needs.Contribute to and drive a collaborative effort to support organizational change management.Identify, document and help client manage project risks.Develop a requirements traceability matrix, business rules, interface requirements, test cases, activity diagrams, exception based error validations, user role based system profiles, security accesses and user profile management.Work collaboratively with various groups within the IT department, business units and prospective vendors to ensure functional requirement definitions are vetted and documented.Re-engineer and clearly define business processes for the new application.Identify how the new application and business processes will integrate with or replace existing business processes.Participate in the creation and subsequent reviews of project test plans with team members and business owners.Lead all final user acceptance efforts with business stakeholders.Define roles and access rights needed for the new application.Represent client interests with prospective vendors and collaborate with them in order to meet the needs of the project and client business representatives.Provide training in the new solution.Require/Desire Skills:Proven ability to lead the overall review, analysis and evaluation of current business systems, processes and evaluates new user requirements.Proven ability to review, analyze and evaluate user/system needs.Proven ability to perform gap analysis on existing state of requirements in conjunction with current business needs.Proficient in Organizational Change Management.Elicit requirements using various elicitation techniques such as Brainstorming, Data Mining, Document Analysis, and Interviews with users.Facilitate risk analysis to produce requirement artifacts such as Field Definition Matrix, Business Rules, Interface requirements, and Use Cases.Facilitate risk analysis to produce requirement artifacts such as activity diagrams and Wireframes.Experience implementing Commercial-Off-The-Shelf packages as a stand-alone on premise application group or as a full/hybrid Cloud based implementation.Produce requirement related artifacts such as test cases, requirements traceability matrix, business rules, interface requirements, use cases.Produce requirement related artifacts such as activity diagrams, exception based error validation and role based system profiles.Produce requirement related artifacts such as security access and user profile management.Ability to work collaboratively with various groups within the IT, business units and vendors to produce fully functional requirement definitions.Ability to analyze functional/nonfunctional system requirements.Ability to re-engineer and clearly define business processes for the new application.Ability to identify how the new application and business processes will integrate with or replace existing business processes.Ability to lead all final user acceptance efforts with business stakeholders in partnership with the quality assurance resources.Ability to define roles and access rights needed for the new application.Ability to provide training in the new solution.Possess strong organization, administrative, analytical, problem solving, and interpersonal skills.Self-motivated and able to develop rapport and positive working relationships with coworkers and the agency at large.Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate with internal customers in nontechnical terms.Proficient with Microsoft Products (Word, Excel, TEAMS, Visio, PowerPoint).Proficient in creating business and system requirements for on premise and Web/Cloud based systems.