Business Analyst 4 - Hybrid Richmond, VA ( 3 hour drive)

Job Description

Job Description

On-site is preferred hiring manager is requesting the candidate be within a three-hour drive (not flight) of the DBHDS office for occasional in case an onsite meeting is required. Any parking costs will be incurred by the candidate.

This project will replace/modernize core functionality of the DBHDS Incident Management System.

• We are seeking a Sr Business Analyst with a technical background to support software development IT Projects at DBHDS using a mix of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid Methodologies.

Requirements

• Perform all tasks related to business analysis, including problem/opportunity identification, elicitation of requirements, and management of stakeholders to meet business and project objectives.

• Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.

• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.

• Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.

• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.

• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.

• Facilitate collaboration and knowledge transfer between stakeholders and the development team

• Work with other BSAs, Data Analysts, Business Architect, Development, and Data Governance teams to ensure the needs of these partners are incorporated into project requirements.

• Develop user acceptance tests and facilitate their execution and business validation discussions and meetings.

Qualifications

• Exceptional interpersonal skills for leading, collaborating, and building strong team relationships with diverse teams on large projects

• Extensive experience leading business and IT resources through the discovery and documentation of business and technical requirements

• Ability to lead others to implement new approaches, systems, structures, and methods

• Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing cloud hosted SaaS implementation projects.

• Experience with automated requirements/development management tools

• Ability to analyze and document system processes.

• Strong analytical, organizational, problem solving and decision-making skills.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to simplify and communicate complex issues and technical concepts to multiple audiences.

• Knowledge of both Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid project management practices and when to apply each according to organizational and project needs

• Ability to build & provide meaningful project health information and insights to business & IT Leadership.

• Ability accurately and effectively represent the project team in multipleforums and to all levels of leadership.

• Ability to exercise and act on independent judgment

• Ability to quickly learn and adapt

• Highly motivated and self-directed

• Skilled in the use of the Microsoft Office Professional Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Visio

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Technical background.

• Experience in healthcare projects.

• Experience with Data Modernization & Enterprise Data Warehouse.

• PMP Certification through PMI or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards

• Experience with VITA’s Commonwealth Technology Portfolio (CTP) system and ECOS process

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Location

On-site is preferred but not mandatory. However, hiring manager is requesting the candidate be within a three-hour drive of the DBHDS office in case an onsite meeting is required. Parking costs will be incurred by the candidate.

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount

of Experience

Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing cloud hosted SaaS implementation projects.
Required
4
Years

Knowledge of both Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid project management practices and when to apply each according to organizational and project needs
Required
5
Years

Skilled in the use of the Microsoft Office Professional Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Visio
Required
5
Years

Experience with automated requirements/development management tools
Required
4
Years

Technical background.
Desired
3
Years

Experience in healthcare projects
Desired
3
Years

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Desired
2
Years

Proficient in writing user stories
Required
4
Years

Knowledge of JIRA or Azure Dev Ops Tools
Desired
3
Years