Agency: ODRC
Job Title/Classification: Business Analyst 2/BA2
NFP Rate: 51.74
Will Close to Submissions on: Tues Jan 19 @ 10 am EST
Interviews: TEAMS- video required
Duration: end of fiscal year- 6/30/21
Position location: 4545 Fisher Road, Suite D, Columbus, OH 43228; Currently working from home
Personal Laptop required
Right To Represent Must Be Included on Submission
Take note of close date on submissions- Withdrawn candidates will not be permitted to be replaced.
Role: One (1) Business Analyst 2 (BA2). The BA2 is requested from February 1, 2021 to June 30, 2021
MBE/Open Market: MBE
Requirement Description:
This position will function as a highly skilled BA2 for Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction’s Project Management Office with specific responsibilities that include:
1. Work with business units and other stakeholders to gather information. Using techniques like interviews, work sessions, storyboarding, and prototyping.
2. Elicit, analyze, document, and communicate business requirements.
3. Analyze high-level business requirements and translate them into more detailed user stories, use cases, and other functional requirements documents such as process flows, screen mock-ups, gap analysis, etc.
4. Create documents and other artifacts to promote sustainable knowledge management within the organization.
5. Work closely with the program manager, project manager and senior business analyst.
6. Collaborate with Quality Assurance to support testing efforts.
7. Create and maintain business process workflows and flowcharts.
8. Analyze current business processes for improvement and lean approach.
9. Perform validation of solutions by analyzing the end product and the requirements specifications.
10. Assist in developing project task plans, leading meetings and other related tasks to gather and coordinate activities for requirements gathering.
11. Change management implementation.
• Experience conducting Facilitated Workshops for requirements analysis.
• Experience creating workflows.
• Knowledge of formal requirements gathering methodologies.
• Experience developing Business Requirements - project initiation document, what the needed achievements will be, and the quality measures.
• Experience developing Functional requirements - describe what the system, process, or product/service must do in order to fulfill the business requirements.
• Experience developing User (stakeholder) requirements - are a very important part of the deliverables, the needs of the stakeholders will have to be correctly interpreted. This deliverable can also reflect how the product will be designed, developed, and define how test cases must be formulated.
• Experience developing Report Specifications - define the purpose of a report, its justification, attributes and columns, owners and runtime parameters.
• Experience developing Requirements Traceability Matrix - a cross matrix for recording the requirements through each stage of the requirements gathering process.
• Experience with change management processes.
• Strong communication/ leadership skills.
• Ability to collaborate with supporting resources across business and/or functional lines.
• Have excellent oral and written skills/possess strong meeting and work session facilitation skills.
• Have the ability to work independently and as part of a team, the ability to manage time and resources to meet assigned deadlines.
• Have excellent organizational skills, proven analytical, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
• Experience utilizing agile tool sets including GIT and Azure
Mandatory Requirements/Time
• 3 years’ experience in the analysis, documentation of business requirements functional and non-functional
• 3 years’ experience creating application prototypes and screen mockups
• 3 years’ experience creating graphical representations of complex business processes
• 3 years’ experience in using Microsoft products; SQL, PowerPoint, Excel and Word
• 3 years’ experience facilitating workshops for requirements gathering
• 3 years’ experience in analyzing data elements of enterprise applications; determining how the data elements relate to each other
• 2 years’ experience with business process modeling methods and techniques
• 3 years’ experience performing Gap analysis As-Is/To-Be for large applications
• 3 years’ experience with Agile projects
Desired Skills/Time:
Azure
GIT
SQL
Microsoft Office Suite
Agile
