Sr. Business Analyst

Job Description

The Executive Office of Education is seeking a Sr. Business Analyst to work on a few critical projects. The successful candidate will be an independent and inquisitive self-starter, who is a quick learner, connect dots and understand with the big picture, is attentive to detail and possess the ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Essential Job Requirements :

• Business Analysis - Partner with stakeholders and development teams to help elicit, analyze, and document business requirements and facilitate translation into technical requirements.
• Support the Program Managers with implementation projects in collaboration with vendor partner teams and business stakeholders.
• Effectively communicate requirements conflicts to project leads, assist with conflict resolution.
• Ensure that requirements are understood and approved by all stakeholders. Manage requirement traceability and changes throughout the project lifecycle.

Ensure the test strategy and test plans adequately cover the requirements. Assist in defect resolution.

Qualifications :

1. Minimum of 5 years of Business Analysis experience

2. Required experience :

o Implementing and working with Salesforce Solutions

o Utilizing a SAFe Agile framework and

o Managing vendor consultants

3. Good experience in implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI / CD),

preferably Worked in a Salesforce implementation project.

4. Experience in creating documents, such as Business Requirement Documents, Software

Requirement Documents, Process workflows, RAIDQs, Project Plans, User guides / Training

materials among others.

5. Work with stakeholders to prioritize requirements effectively based on business value, risks

and constraints.

6. Solid understanding of Project Management methodologies and practices to be able to work

closely with a Program Manager and seamlessly move into the PM role on occasion.

7. Experience with evaluating project risks and issues and assisting Program Manager / Portfolio

Manager with prioritization and development of mitigation or resolution strategies.

8. Ability to develop strong client / vendor relationships and develop strategies and solutions of

high business value.

9. Ability to apply business analysis experience and project management knowledge to real

world scenarios. Agile Project Methodology and JIRA knowledge preferred.

10. Experience in facilitating requirement analysis sessions with large and diverse stakeholder

groups through requirements meetings, workshops, JAD sessions etc.

11. Possess the ability to read, analyze and interpret general business documents and

governmental regulations; to write clear and legible documents, business correspondence

and meeting notes; create presentations to effectively convey information and respond to

questions from managers, employees, vendors, and governmental agencies.

12. Experience with analyzing inefficient business processes (manual entry, old technology,

migrations, and working with business stakeholders and IT partners to create

requirements for effective automated solutions.

13. Experience in creating visual diagrams of the system by UML (Use case, Activity, Business

Process Diagrams), and creating web page mock-ups.

14. Proficient with MS Office; including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Visio.

15. Possess Bachelor's Degree or at least 3 years related experience in a technical environment.

16. Maintain confidentiality and able to work with all levels of employees in the organization.

17. Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information

Technology, or similar preferred

18. Business Analyst Certification Preferred