Senior Business System Analyst (BSA)

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Job description

Bring your BSA talents to Compass Computing Group, twice recognized as one of Portland's Fastest Growing Private 100 companies. Be an integral part of a team that provides outstanding professional I.T. staffing assistance and superb project management services to diverse clients. We have an opportunity for a Senior Business Intelligence Business System Analyst. The client is in Portland, OR, the position will last 12 months, and the project is to start at the end of February 2021. This position is 100% remote during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The successful candidate will provide analysis of business processes and assess business needs to design, develop, and modify client's Software Applications. This is a permanent position which will be posted and client will encourage people who are interested in a long term engagement to apply as Sr Business System Analyst, so client is looking for candidates in Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA metro areas only.

Scope of Work:

• Provide consultation, technical and analytical duties relating to the operation, maintenance and enhancement of systems
• Provide expertise in the business functions and processes of specific functional areas; work with process owners, super users and end-users in identifying, analyzing and resolving business process or configuration problems.
• Perform systems analysis duties; provide expertise in the design, development and implementation of system modifications, process improvements and enhancements; communicate changes and new processes
• Pprovide technical expertise to clients to ensure design requirements reflect the business process needs; monitor continuing effectiveness of solutions
• Develop business cases, project plans, requirement definitions, business process analysis, user acceptance test plans and execute implementation
• Configure, test and manage systems; include performing periodic system upgrades; coordinate with IT staff, consultants, vendors, business process owners, end-users and management
• Collaborate with customers to coordinate and review business process fixes and determine the impact on production processes
• In addition to the above duties, the senior level will: provide project management duties on complex, multi-faceted system projects; may lead the work of staff, consultants, vendors and others
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Preferred: experience or background in a criminal justice field

Nice to have: experience in creating and managing projects in Azure Boards and/or other tools that support Agile processes

Must be able to pass a criminal background check

Minimum Number of Years Experience: 5

Required Skills and Abilities:

Project Management

• Advanced skill managing concurrent projects of varying sizes (5+ years) and demonstrated knowledge of Agile project management tools and methodologies.
• Intermediate knowledge and skill (2 - 3 years) sizing and prioritizing requests for programming changes or for development of new systems.

Research and Data Analysis

• Advanced knowledge and skill (3 - 5 years) analyzing and creating design and programming specifications for custom extracts based on business needs.
• Advanced knowledge and skill (4 - 7 years) creating custom data extracts in support of internal and/or public information requests.
• Intermediate (2 - 3 years) skill facilitating analysis of Federal, State and Municipal mandates and statutes to determine business impacts and determining needed system modifications.
• Intermediate knowledge of SQL (2 - 3 years) to write and execute queries for data extraction and test data loads.

Systems, Tools and Methodologies

• Intermediate knowledge and skill (2 - 3 years) using the most effective project management methodologies as needed to fit the circumstances e.g., Agile, more traditional methodologies. Knowledge of SDLC towards delivering custom developed business systems.
• Intermediate knowledge and skill (2 - 3 years) of data modeling to transform business data and processes into their appropriate logical application system representation.

Customer Support

• Advanced knowledge and skill (3 - 5 years) analyzing customer business processes and recommending simplified or more efficient processes (process improvement).
• Advanced skill (3 - 5 years) troubleshooting customer issues to determine cause, workarounds, and analysis to develop requests for programming changes when appropriate.
• Advanced knowledge and skill (3 - 5 years) providing consulting support to system owners and users requesting technology solutions.
• Advanced knowledge and skill (3-5 years) providing consulting support to system owners and users requesting technology solutions.

In addition to an excellent hourly rate, we offer:

- employer paid long term disability and life insurance

- immediate participation in SIMPLE IRA with employer match

- Costco Membership

- Appreciation for being yourself

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