IT Business Analyst

LOCALS TO GA, HYBRID USC, GC OR EAD
The scopes of work define 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. Consultant shall represent interests and comply with Ethics/Code of Conduct rules of the State of Georgia. Consultant will be preparing materials to support procurements but will not be participating in the actual evaluation, selection, or contracting processes

As time permits, BA may be assigned to 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 scopes of work

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 Department, 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

Work Terms and Conditions

8AM - 5PM 40 hrs. per week