Business Analyst 3

Job Title: Business Analyst 3
Location: Lansing, MI (hybrid)
Duration: 12 Months

Job Description:
The Business Analyst is responsible for gathering and documenting clear, unambiguous, and testable business requirements from the client, and understanding the business requirements thoroughly in order to communicate business needs and system functionality to technical and non-technical stakeholders, project team members, and the user community. The Business Analyst serves as the ScrumMaster (heavy usage of Azure DevOps tool) on projects and coordinates with the PMOs Project Manager for artifacts/documentation needed on client projects.

The Business Analyst is 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.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for documenting business requirements that are clear, unambiguous, testable, and satisfy the business need in accordance with standard templates and adherence to DTMB and client policies, standards, and guidelines.
• Responsible for facilitating 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.
• Responsible for adhering to the project schedule by developing and maintaining the project backlog during Agile projects and working with the product owner to set priorities throughout the duration of the project.
• Responsible for understanding project Product and actively monitoring the requirements process to maintain adherence to the objectives set for the project.
• Responsible for understanding high-level information governance objectives and ensuring appropriate Stakeholder inclusion and/or awareness regarding data requirements.
• Responsible for the appropriate resolution of critical IT issues as it pertains to the BA role.
• Responsible for providing information and analysis for Build vs. Buy project decisions.
• Responsible for understanding project-specific benefits and the related impact of changes to project Product or business requirements.
• Ensures SEM (system engineering methodology) deliverables for the project that are a responsibility of the BA are completed, reviewed, and approved in alignment with area processes.
• Works directly with project team including user interface/user experience (UI/UX) solution architects, database administrators, developers, QA testers, and others to ensure understanding of the requirements, functionality, size, and scalability of the IT solution.

Skill Matrix: Skill Required Amount of Experience Experience Business Analyst Required 3 Years Quality Assurance Knowledge Required 3 Years Azure DevOps Knowledge or similar tool like JIRA (comfortable with creating epics/features/user stories for projects as well as moving cards through project lifecycle) Required 3 Years Understanding of BA, QA, DEV roles/responsibilities Required 3 Years Experienced with as-is/to-be processes and content creation Required 3 Years Experience with creating product roadmap Required 3 Years Familiarity with Project Management Methodologies/Agile Required 3 Years Adept with using BA tools (e.g., FIGMA, Visio) Required 3 Years