Position Details
Business Analyst Sme Level Apply
This position will require a qualified Technical Business Analyst to take the lead in the following tasks:
- Ability to create and document detailed business requirements, perform analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for the stakeholders
- Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation
- A strong understanding of the documentation development process, the software development process, and product lifecycles
- Determine operational objectives by studying and documenting business functions; gathering information; evaluating output and formats
- Improve systems by studying and documenting current state and business rules
- Ability to partner with other team members and stakeholder across multiple business units to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with executive teams
- Ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience and business information to a technical audience
- Ability to successfully apply complex knowledge of fundamental concepts practices, and procedures of technical writing.
- Construct workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications
- Translating stakeholder requests into formal requirements
| Must be able to effectively communicate (verbal and written) requirements with stakeholders as well as development team |
| Must be able to collaborate with Project Manager, Architect, and developers to ensure business requirements are communicated, accepted, and meet expectations |
| Must be able to translate and simplify requirements from stakeholders into written requirement documents for development team. Documents include: Formal Business Requirements Document, Functional Design Document, Technical Design Document, Technical Use Cases, User stories, Business Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test cases. |
| Must be able to create diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of business processes |
| Must be able to create diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of data flow through system |
| Must be able to create and manage test cases for Quality Assurance. |
| Must be familiar with software and database development concepts |
| Technical Business Analyst work on a software development team |
| Must have experience developing technical documentation for enterprise software users, system administrators, and other technical audiences |
| Strong experience in requirements management and creating all documents listed above |
| Strong experience in mapping business processes into technical documentation |
| Strong experience in user acceptance testing |
| Ability to analyze business functions |
| Practical experience generating process documentation and reports |
| Strong working knowledge of relevant Microsoft applications, including Visio |
| Extensive experience with data visualization |
| Excellent communication with the ability to translate data into actionable insights |
| Scrum |
| Agile |
Three (3) references of submitted candidates required. Please provide the following. Must submit with resume.
- First/last name of reference
- Title
- Company Name
- Job title of contractor while reporting to this supervisor/manager
- Telephone number
| Preference given to candidates with the below skills/experience. Must also meet minimum requirements. |
| MS Visio or similar product |
| Database Entity Design |
| Figma |
| Education data systems |
| SQL |
| Common Education Data Standards |
| Scrum / Agile |
