Business Analyst with Public Sector experience (Local Preferred)

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Job description

Candidates selected for this opportunity are required to physically attend meetings in Austin, TX, with possible minimal notice. Candidates currently residing outside of the Texas, will be required to relocate to Texas, if selected for this position and the offer is accepted.

Work involves the following:
Seeking, gathering and analyzing information and data from stakeholders and subject matter experts.
Converting findings into meaningful documentation for use by the development team.
Communicating with technical, non-technical, functional, management and executive staff.
Working within cross-functional teams.
Taking initiative to develop a foster a collaborative approach among teams before, during and after the requirements gathering process to achieve a common mission, vision, values and goals.
Tracking software development life cycle activity metrics as it relates to requirements and other established metrics.

The Worker must have a strong Business Analysis background with extensive experience in the following:
Experience as a Business Analyst within an Enterprise-level application development environment.
Experience working in a fast-paced information technology environment.
Experience as a Business Analyst within an Enterprise-level application development environment.
Experience developing solid requirements documents with a strong attention to detail to capture project need and scope.
Robust skills facilitating and leading groups to clarify and define project requests, needs, scope and priorities, as well as delivering presentations for meetings involving cross-functional teams and including stakeholders.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to provide clear and consistent status updates and inform stakeholders and agency leadership of project progress.
Solid experience with the Microsoft Suite of tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, MS Project, and Visio).
Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) methodologies.
Knowledge of Case Management applications a plus but not required.
Communicating and listening in a way that is focused on clear expression of, as well as understanding of ideas and concepts that ultimately lead to positive outcomes and results.
Prefer knowledge of Texas Project Delivery Framework.

II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
Years
Required/Preferred
Experience
5
Required
Experience as a Business Analyst in an enterprise level software development environment
5
Required
Functional and technical requirements gathering, analysis and documentation with a strong attention to detail
5
Required
Experience with the Microsoft Suite of tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project and SharePoint)
4
Required
Developing Use Case documentation and User Stories that lead to clearly defined and numbered project requirements.
3
Required
Facilitating meetings, requirements gathering sessions and conducting presentations
2
Required
Developing and presenting project status updates and reporting on key performance indicators for project success
2
Required
Communication skills, both verbal and written.
2
Preferred
Knowledge of the Texas Project Delivery Framework
2
Preferred
Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) methodologies

- provided by Dice