Business Analysts

POSITION TITLE: BUSINESS ANALYSTS

LOCATION: ST PAUL, MN 55101

WORK TYPE: W-2, CORP TO CORP, 1099

CONTRACT DURATION: 12MONTHS + (STRONG POSSIBILITY OF EXTENSION)

ENGAGEMENT DESCRIPTION:

RESPONSIBILITIES EXPECTED OF THE SELECTED VENDOR

Responsibilities include:

Analyze and synthesize information provided by a large number of people who interact with the business (customers, staff, IT, executives, etc.). Responsible for eliciting the actual needs of stakeholders (not just desires) and successfully documenting, managing, translating and communicating these needs between the various groups.

Provide Requirements Management and Communication to ensure project teams and stakeholders stay aligned and in agreement on project scope and communication. This covers: communicating requirements; conflict resolution; gaining formal approval; and baselining and tracking requirements through implementation.

Provide Enterprise Analysis to identify a business need, gaps in fulfilling that need, refinement and definition of the need, proposed approach scope to meeting the need, and building the case to justify the work. This covers: assessing business architecture; undertaking gap analysis; feasibility studies; defining the solution scope; and developing business cases.

Provide Requirements Analysis to progressively prioritize and elaborate requirements to enable the project team to implement a solution that fulfills the needs of the organization and stakeholders. This involves: analysing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs; functional and non-functional requirements; modelling the business domain using process diagrams, flowcharts, data models, etc.; exploring behavior models using use case, user experience design, storyboards, wireframes, user profiles and user stories; and verifying and validating final requirements.

Provide knowledge transfer as needed.

REQUIRED SKILLS (TO BE SCORED AS PASS/FAIL)

ONLY CANDIDATES WITH THE REQUIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS WILL BE SCORED.

Required minimum qualifications:

B.S. or BA Degree

6 years' experience in a Business Analyst role

2 engagements of at least 12 months duration where responsibilities included performing business process reengineering

5 engagements of at least 12 months where responsibilities included gathering, analysing, managing and tracing requirements

3 engagements of at least 12 months where responsibilities included conducting Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions or facilitating business requirement gathering sessions for IT projects over $300,000

3 engagements of at least 12 months where responsibilities included developing Gap Analysis determinations for IT projects over $300,000

3 engagements of at least 12 months where responsibilities included determining and controlling scope

2 engagements of at least 12 months where responsibilities included researching and evaluating solution alternatives

6 years' experience developing and maintaining deliverables such as: business cases, scoping documents, charters, Requirements Specifications, use cases, user stories, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, process models

3 engagements of at least 12 months where responsibilities included developing project cost and duration estimates

3 engagements of at least 12 months where responsibilities included developing risk assessments and risk plans

3 years of Business Analyst experience working in a state governmental organization on complex IT projects of over $2 million

3 engagements of at least 12 months where responsibilities included Quality Assurance activities such as developing test plans, test scripts and test cases

1 engagement of at least 12 months duration where responsibilities included ensuring the usability of the solution

DESIRED SKILLS

3 years' experience using the Agile Software Development Life Cycle;

Lean Six Sigma Certification

2 years' experience using Agile Development Software such as Rally or JIRA.

3 years' of Business Analyst experience working on Financial Systems IT projects.

Experience preparing and delivering presentations and demonstrations to Senior Management.

2 engagements of at least 12 months in duration where responsibilities included creating and maintaining SharePoint sites.