Business Analyst

Job description

Vector Consulting is seeking a Business Analyst on a long-term contract opportunity in Sacramento, CA.

Role: Business Analyst

Minimum Technical Qualification

1) At least seven (7) years of experience within the last ten (10) years working as a Business Analyst with large organizations, leading or participating in the technical implementation of software/systems/applications automating complex business processes, performing any of the following:

a. Assessment of analysis scope and tasks

b. Planning business analysis tasks

c. Facilitating joint application design (JAD) and/or collaborative design sessions

d. Elicitation, definitions and documentation of various business, user, and system requirements

e. Analysis for business process improvement, application design and workflow automation

f. Modeling and documenting functional designs

g. Leading and working within cross-functional teams that include business subject matter experts, application architects, developers, and testers

2) At least seven (7) years of experience within the last ten (10) years producing business analysis deliverables such as any of the following:

a. Business requirements and business rules

b. Functional requirements and/or functional specifications

c. Non-functional requirements

d. Stakeholder requests

e. Procurement documentation

f. Transition plans and/or implementation requirements

g. Traceability matrices

3) At least three (3) years of experience using Rational Requisite Pro, HP ALM, Jama, or other

requirement gathering tool to document functional and non-functional requirements, design

specifications and provide full traceability for projects.

Desirable Technical Qualifications

It is desirable for the proposed Business Analyst have the following listed experience, knowledge, skills and abilities

1) Experience as a Business Analyst at with the State or Federal government.

2) Experience as a Business Analyst leading or participating in the technical implementation of

pension/retirement-related software development projects - especially Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse solutions including the following areas of focus.

a. Pension administration and financial related data: annual or final compensation, service credit, contributions, interest, payables, receivables, various benefit factor types, benefit formula calculations, payroll deductions, district reported salary data on behalf of members, Medicare data, etc.

b. Investments related data: portfolio performance and management, investment exposure, private and real estate asset classes, risk exposure, rate of return, net asset value, benchmark, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), Sustainable Investments and Stewardship Strategies data.

c. Service Level Goals and Objective related data and pension administration related audit data.

d. A wide variety of dashboarding, forecasting, and modeling including existing pre-defined reports for various business areas.

3) IIBA Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP or CCBA).

4) Experience in agile methodology or Scaled Agile Framework.

5) Experience acting as a project manager for software development or implementation projects.

6) Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems or related fields from an accredited or government-sanctioned college/university.

About Vector:

Vector Consulting, Inc., (Headquartered in Atlanta) is an IT Talent Acquisition Solutions firm committed to delivering results. Since our founding in 1990, we have been partnering with our customers, understanding their business, and developing solutions with a commitment to quality, reliability and value. Our continuing growth has been and continues to be built around successful relationships that are based on our organization's operating philosophy and commitment to ** People, Partnerships, Purpose and Performance - THE VECTOR WAY

"Celebrating 30 years of service"