In the analyst role, the Programmer Analyst is responsible for gathering and documenting clear, unambiguous, and testable business requirements from the client, understanding the business requirements thoroughly to communicate business need and system functionality to technical and non-technical stakeholders, project team members, and the user community. The resource will be responsible for working with the project team and stakeholders to examine existing and future-state business processes, data, and systems. This information is used to guide the gathering of business requirements as they relate to the desired system functionality.
In the programmer role, the Programmer Analyst is responsible for planning, developing, testing, and documenting computer programs, applying knowledge of programming techniques and computer systems.
Analyst Responsibilities
- Document business requirements that are clear, unambiguous, testable, and satisfy the business need in accordance with standard templates and adherence to DTMB and Treasury policies, standards, and guidelines.
- Facilitate requirement gathering meetings to identify impacted business processes and document the project business requirements. Attendees include relevant project team members and stakeholders as identified in the Communication Plan.
- Adhere to the project schedule by developing and maintaining the project backlog during Agile projects and working with the product owner to set priority throughout the duration of project.
- Understand project scope and actively monitoring requirements process to maintain adherence to the objectives set for the project.
- Understand high-level information governance objectives and ensuring appropriate Stakeholder inclusion and/or awareness regarding data requirements.
- Resolution of critical IT issues as it pertains to the BA role.
- Understand project specific benefits and related impact of changes to project scope or business requirements.
- Ensure SEM deliverables for the project that are a responsibility of the BA are completed, reviewed, and approved in alignment with area processes.
- Work directly with project team including user interface/user experience (UI/UX) designers, tech leads, solution architects, database administrators, developers, QA testers, and technical writers to ensure understanding of the requirements, functionality, size, and scalability of the IT solution.
- Work with security team to develop system security plans (SSPs).