IT Business Analyst - Project Initiation

Job Title: IT Business Analyst/Project Manager
Location: Atlanta, GA
Duration: 6 Months

Short Description:
Under general supervision, the IT Business Analyst (BA) analyzes enterprise-wide customer business needs & participates in the planning, design & implementation of new or enhanced systems or reporting/analysis on multiple IT development projects.

Complete Description:
Client is seeks a Business Analyst (BA) who will primarily assigned to compiling and documenting scope/statement of work and other documentation to facilitate new IT procurements/contracts.

**Only candidates with proven working experience with the following will be considered:**

A scope/statement of work defines the applicable boundaries, requirements, activities/tasks, deliverables/milestones, terms and conditions, etc. for purchasing goods/services.
The BA will incorporate or gather requirements and related exhibits/appendices.
BA will collaborate with business, IT, IT Security, Legal, and Procurement/Legal stakeholders.
BA will obtain and assess vendor provided agreements and related materials.
BA will prepare any additional documents as needed to facilitate procurements.
BA will facilitate reconciling any conflicting items between parties.
BA will assist in gathering and documenting selection criteria for proposal evaluations.
Candidate shall represent GDOT interests and comply with Ethics/Code of Conduct rules of the ***.
Candidate will be preparing materials to support procurements but will not be participating in the actual GDOT evaluation, selection, or contracting processes.

As time permits, BA may be assigned to GDOT IT Project teams to gather and translate business needs into in-house custom developed product/solution requirements.
The BA will work hand-in-hand with business, project, and management teams.
BA will solicit, understand, and analyze business needs, data, objectives, and processes.
BA will translate user need into materials for successful IT initiation, design, and development.
BA will conduct user interviews and joint-application-development (JAD) sessions.
BA will identify business "pain points" and rank user stories/use cases potential to improve business effectiveness/performance.
BA will clarify and document IT project scope, current/future state, business/application workflows, functional/system requirements, system interaction diagrams, reporting and training requirements, data mapping, logical data models, metadata, screen mock-ups, and test cases.
BA will actively participate in the software development life cycle (SLDC) and transfer information to IT Project teams.
BA will be responsible for demonstrating requirement traceability within work products.
BA will validate requirements were met within developed products and facilitate completion of user acceptance testing.
BA will assist project manager in getting dates from business units to complete reviews.

Responsibilities:
- Participates in the demand management process to assist the business in establishing business cases, scope, and requirements relating to requests for new systems or existing system changes
- Primarily support IT acquisition of products or services by developing scope/statements of work, compliance documents, and procurement documents
- Consults with project teams and architects to identify currently know solutions or performs market research
- Gathers information/documentation from vendors or contractors
- Translates business needs into requirements and functional/non-functional specifications
- Gather, clarify/define, and document scope, business scenarios, workflows, requirements, etc.
- Conduct interviews, workshops, and JAD sessions
- Analyzes and validates business requirements and processes, identifies opportunities for process enhancement to benefit the Customer, identifies gaps in information
- Uses a structured process to define priorities and opportunities and/or works with stakeholders to define the minimum viable product (MVP) and options for improvements via subsequent phases
- Produces required work artifacts
- Communicates and presents client's business requirements to implementation teams
- Creates systems models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and system architects
- Works with the team to define acceptance criteria or other metrics/performance goals for the system
- Provides status updates, completes weekly work time logs, updates work tickets weekly
- Provide estimates and target dates for task completion for incorporation into project schedules or work tickets