Senior BSA

GovServicesHub
  • Mechanicsville, Virginia
    30+ days ago

    Job Description

    Senior BSA

    Location: Onsite - Mechanicsville, VA

    Summary

     

    This is a BSA role, NOT a BA role, and calls for a seasoned Senior Business Analyst with Systems Analyst experience. Suitable candidates must be comfortable working in a highly dynamic collaborative work environment to meet the needs of multiple business lines and supporting a portfolio comprised of a wide variety of custom applications and third-party platforms, and integrations.

    As a Senior Business Systems Analyst on the team, you will be responsible for ensuring that business needs are well understood, documented, and communicated to the technical resources responsible. Assignments may include analysis and design of new features and platform implementation as well as partnering with both business stakeholders and technical resources to prioritize, manage, troubleshoot, and implement small to medium-sized enhancements. Problem-solving and triage support for urgent production break fix resolution is also required.

    The applicant will perform a variety of tasks, simultaneously working in a matrixed environment. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. The applicant must rely on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. In addition, the analyst will be responsible for mentoring and assisting junior members of the team as they work to grow their BSA skillset.



    Requirements

    ·Workplace Fundamentals

    ·Demonstrate excellent meeting facilitation and time management during the course of assignments

    ·Demonstrate flexibility in dealing with shifting priorities and the ability to manage and balance multiple assignments at the same time

    ·Competently and professionally interact with, set expectations and resolve requirements & prioritization conflicts with stakeholders at all levels of the organization

    ·Have excellent level appropriate and concise communication skills

    BSA Skills

    ·Perform & appropriately scale BSA-related tasks & activities for work efforts of various sizes (from small maintenance items and defects to large projects)

    ·Ensure SDLC processes are being followed

    ·Product thorough User Stories with sufficient Acceptance Criteria Development and Specification necessary to support the product owner, SME, development and quality assurance stakeholders

    ·Acquire full understanding of business vision for project, enhancements, and defect remediation

    ·Make recommendations to business on best practices

    ·Provide business analysis support for project requests making sure to examine build vs. buy options that may be available and align with business strategic goals including cost / benefit analysis for new efforts.

    ·Effectively use various elicitation techniques (JAD sessions, interviews, surveys, shadowing, etc.) to ensure that the true business need and intent is understood and well documented. (RFPs, SOWs, business requirements, business processes, flows, etc)

    ·Formulate and document well-formed user stories with detailed acceptance criteria

    ·Understand how change to a component/application impacts the whole system and make recommendations for the logical design of system enhancements

    ·Provide design support for technical teams in planning and execution of project design sessions prior to development iterations to identify and specify logical system design

    ·Work with Development Lead / System Engineer as liaison to communicate business requirements through elicitation of additional technical requirements

    ·Gather integration requirements for data to include identification and assessment of data sources and creation of source/target mappings

    ·Adapt current integration processes to accommodate changes in source systems and new business user requirements

    ·Partner with technical and quality assurance resources to ensure that requirements are implemented and tested per the acceptance criteria

    ·Assist Product Owners with UAT planning and execution integrated with QA test planning (as needed)


    Additional Skills:

    ·Proficiency with Microsoft 365 Applications for Enterprise (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)

    ·Proven knowledge of Web Application Concepts

    ·Proven knowledge of Client / Server Application Concepts

    ·Effective Meeting Facilitation, Conflict Resolution and Negotiation skills

    ·Mentor & provide guidance to junior members of the team

    ·Experience with HR systems and eCommerce implementation

    Required/Desired Skills

    Skill

    Required /Desired

    Amount

    of Experience

    Writes clear, accurate and measurable requirements in the format of user stories with acceptance criteria


    3

    Years

    Creates and maintains documentation used to communicate business process information, system functionality and other materials needed for support


    3

    Years

    Experience writing interface requirements and related documentation such as source-to-target mapping


    3

    Years

    Facilitates, leads and participates in effective meetings to understand the problem/opportunity, gather requirements and faciliate UAT


    3

    Years

    Writes basic SQL queries (select statements only) to find, analyze and summarize data findings


    2

    Years

    Experience learning new systems, processes and procedures


    3

    Years

    Balances multiple complex assignments with minimal assistance


    3

    Years

    Tracks down the source & details surrounding a problem/opportunity, accurately analyzes it and clearly identifies the activities needed to address it.


    3

    Years

    Full SDLC experience on agile, waterfall and hybrid methodologies


    5

    Years

    Ability to read and interpret vendor API information

    Highly desired

    1

    Years

    Experience as a BSA supporting or implementing HR and/or eCommerce systems

    Highly desired

    1

    Years

    Experience working with and partnering with vendor support

    Highly desired

    1

    Years

    Experience using Atlassian JIRA to manage requirements

    Highly desired

    1

    Years

     

     



    Numbers & Facts

    LocationMechanicsville, Virginia
    Websitewww.govserviceshub.com

    Skills

    • Acceptance Testingunmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Atlassian JIRAunmatched
    • Best Practicesunmatched
    • Business Analysisunmatched
    • Business Practicesunmatched
    • Business Processesunmatched
    • Business Solutionsunmatched
    • Business Strategyunmatched
    • Business Supportunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Conflict Resolutionunmatched
    • Cost Benefit Analysisunmatched
    • Data Analysisunmatched
    • Documentationunmatched
    • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
    • HRIS/HRMSunmatched
    • Identify Issuesunmatched
    • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
    • Java Decompiler (JAD)unmatched
    • Lead Generationunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Microsoft Excelunmatched
    • Microsoft PowerPointunmatched
    • Microsoft Product Familyunmatched
    • Microsoft Visiounmatched
    • Microsoft Wordunmatched
    • Multitaskingunmatched
    • Negotiation Skillsunmatched
    • People Managementunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Product Supportunmatched
    • Production Supportunmatched
    • Project Designunmatched
    • Project Planningunmatched
    • Quality Assuranceunmatched
    • Requirements Managementunmatched
    • SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
    • Server Programming/Applicationsunmatched
    • Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
    • Strategic Planningunmatched
    • Systems Analysisunmatched
    • Systems Engineeringunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Technical Supportunmatched
    • Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
    • Testingunmatched
    • Time Managementunmatched
    • eCommerceunmatched

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