Senior Business Analyst

Project: M&O Services for DSS Application Systems Position Numbers: 66, 67, 68, and 69 Job Titles: Senior Business Analyst 1, Senior Business Analyst 2, Senior Business Analyst 3, and Senior Business Analyst 4

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Position Summary

The Senior Business Analyst will support the analysis, enhancement, maintenance, and modernization of enterprise application systems for the M&O Services for DSS Application Systems project. This position is responsible for analyzing business and data requirements, documenting functional and technical requirements, supporting solution design, and facilitating communication between business stakeholders and technical teams.

The Senior Business Analyst will work closely with project managers, developers, solution architects, quality assurance teams, database professionals, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable requirements and support the successful delivery of application and technology solutions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive business, functional, technical, and data analysis to support application development and maintenance initiatives.

• Gather, analyze, document, validate, and manage business and system requirements.

• Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions, stakeholder interviews, workshops, and technical discussions.

• Translate business needs into detailed functional requirements, technical requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and system specifications.

• Analyze current-state business processes and systems and assist with defining future-state processes and solutions.

• Develop business process flows, system diagrams, data models, mockups, and other requirements documentation.

• Analyze business data to identify trends, requirements, dependencies, gaps, and potential system impacts.

• Serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and application development, architecture, database, infrastructure, and quality assurance teams.

• Work with technical teams to evaluate proposed application designs and confirm alignment with documented business requirements.

• Support application development, enhancement, integration, maintenance, and modernization activities.

• Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, requirements reviews, demonstrations, and other Agile project activities.

• Develop and maintain requirements and project documentation using tools such as Atlassian JIRA and Confluence.

• Create process flows, system diagrams, wireframes, and mockups using tools such as Microsoft Visio and Balsamiq.

• Support data analysis, data mapping, data validation, and database-related requirements.

• Collaborate with Quality Assurance teams to develop test scenarios, validate acceptance criteria, and support functional and regression testing.

• Support quality assurance and test automation initiatives.

• Assist with identifying, documenting, tracking, and resolving project risks, issues, defects, dependencies, and requirements gaps.

• Participate in technical discussions involving application architecture, databases, integrations, cloud environments, and enterprise systems.

• Maintain requirements traceability throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Support user acceptance testing and verify that implemented solutions meet approved business and functional requirements.

• Develop and maintain business, functional, technical, and project documentation.

• Support continuous improvement of business analysis, requirements management, and application delivery processes.

Required Qualifications

Candidates must have demonstrated professional experience in applicable areas such as:

• Business analysis

• Functional business analysis

• Data analysis

• Requirements gathering and documentation

• Business process analysis and process mapping

• Functional and technical requirements development

• User stories and acceptance criteria

• Data mapping and validation

• Application development and maintenance environments

• Agile software development methodologies

• Quality Assurance and testing processes

• Microsoft technologies

• Atlassian JIRA

• Confluence

• Microsoft Visio

• Balsamiq

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Cross-functional collaboration between business and technical teams

Minimum Experience

Minimum experience requirements vary by position:

• Position 66 – Senior Business Analyst 1: Minimum of six (6) years of relevant experience.

• Position 67 – Senior Business Analyst 2: Minimum of six (6) years of relevant experience.

• Position 68 – Senior Business Analyst 3: Minimum of four (4) years of relevant experience.

• Position 69 – Senior Business Analyst 4: Minimum of four (4) years of relevant experience.

Additional Technical Experience

Depending on project assignment, candidates may be required to demonstrate experience with one or more of the following technical environments and technologies:

Microsoft & Application Development

• Angular 8

• AngularJS

• ASP.NET Core

• C#

• Entity Framework Core

• Microsoft SQL Server

• TypeScript

• React and/or comparable component-based architecture

• .NET and Angular development utilizing SOLID design principles

• AWS

• DevOps tools, including Octopus Deploy and Jenkins

Cúram & Enterprise Application Technologies

• Cúram V7

• Cúram Enterprise Framework Components

• Cúram Intelligent Evidence Gathering (IEG2)

• Cúram Express Rules for Triage (CERT)

• Cúram development and technical architecture

• HTML and DHTML

• JavaScript

• Java frameworks, including Struts and Spring

• Ajax, jQuery, and Dojo

• SOA and Web Services

• Attunity/Qlik

• WebSphere

• ESB or Message Broker

• Eclipse

• Oracle

Database, Data & Reporting Technologies

• Oracle 9i, 10g, and 11g

• Sybase 12.5

• SQL Server 2000/2012

• DB2 UDB

• SQL

• PL/SQL

• UNIX Shell Scripting

• Star Schema modeling

• Snowflake Schema modeling

• SQL*Loader

• SQL Developer

• TOAD

• SQL*Plus

• DBArtisan

• SSMA

• SSIS

• SSRS

• Informatica

• BusinessObjects

• Oracle Reports

• IBM Cognos

Development & Operating Environment Tools

• Perforce

• PVCS

• RGS

• Linux

• UNIX

• Windows environments

• JIRA

• Confluence

• Microsoft Visio

• Balsamiq

Preferred Qualifications

• Cúram V7 Certified Developer certification or comparable Cúram development and technical architecture experience.

• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise application development and maintenance projects.

• Experience working with both business stakeholders and highly technical development teams.

• Experience supporting application modernization and cloud-based environments.

• Experience with database and data warehouse concepts, including relational and dimensional data modeling.

• Experience with quality assurance, test planning, and automated testing processes.

• Experience supporting enterprise integrations, APIs, web services, and data exchanges.

• Demonstrated experience delivering technology solutions in production environments.

Core Competencies

• Strong business and data analysis skills.

• Strong requirements elicitation and documentation skills.

• Ability to understand and communicate complex technical concepts to business stakeholders.

• Ability to translate business requirements into clear and actionable technical requirements.

• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.

• Strong facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.

• Ability to manage multiple requirements, priorities, and project deliverables.

• Strong attention to detail and documentation quality.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to collaborate effectively across business, development, architecture, database, infrastructure, and quality assurance teams.