Senior IT Business Analyst (681977)
About the Opportunity
- We are only considering US Citizens and Green Card holders for this position. We are unable to sponsor for this role.
- We are only considering local candidates who currently reside within 45 minutes of postal code 20002
- No Third Party Agencies
- $73 per hour 1099, C2C, $62 per hour W2 + benefits
- Location: 100% On-site, downtown NE DC (Red Line: NOMA Gallaudet U - New York Ave)
- Job Id: CAI-681977
- Must be able to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination plus booster shot
- Contract Term: Till end of the 2022 fiscal year with yearly extension based upon performance
Short Description
The District of Columbia’s Department of Human Services (DHS) is seeking a Senior IT Business Analyst to capture, verify and manage requirements and perform requirements traceability in support of product development, test and delivery. The ideal candidate will possess 12+ years of IT business or data analyst experience, 11+ years of SDLC, 11+ years of MS Powerpoint, and 10+ years of documenting processes, use cases, workflows, and complex logic.
Required Skills/Years of Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience
- 12+ years of experience applying strong analytical and time management skills
- 12+ years of experience utilizing detail-oriented, excellent written and verbal communication
- 12+ years of experience as a Business Analyst/ Business Data Analyst
- 11+ years of experience with SDLC
- 11+ years of experience with requirements gathering and documentation
- 11+ years of experience with MS Office/PowerPoint
- 11+ years of experience with requirements identification, use case and scenario capture
- 10+ years of experience with gathering and documenting system and business requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on experience with business process analysis, redesign, workflows, and complex logic
- 5+ years of experience supporting web-based case management, user portal, or data capture application for human services
- 5+ years of experience with Agile and SCRUM SDLC methodologies
- 5+ years of experience presenting to with senior management
- 5+ years of experience with Visio and requirements tools (Contour or Jira)
- 5+ years of experience collaborating with other teams and managers
Complete Description
The District of Columbia’s Department of Human Services (DHS) is seeking a Senior IT Business Analyst to capture, verify and manage requirements and perform requirements traceability in support of product development, test and delivery. The ideal candidate will possess 12+ years of IT business or data analyst experience, 11+ years of SDLC, 11+ years of MS Powerpoint, and 10+ years of documenting processes, use cases, workflows, and complex logic.
This position is housed under Application Support Division (ASD) of the Office of Information Systems (OIS) in direct support of application stabilization, enhancements and operations and maintenance redesign and other related projects.
The Senior IT Business Analyst will be tasked to:
- Become an integral part of the ASD I Team, making every problem associated with the platform a problem of their own and will demonstrate the required initiative and critical thinking abilities necessary to resolve all problems and challenges accordingly
- Work with business stakeholders and users to develop software requirements and specifications for current system enhancements, new system functionality and new projects for use by customers
- Analyze, design and evaluate computer systems to address and satisfy business requirements
- Establish functional, non-functional and performance specifications
- Develop effective guidelines and ensure all project documentation meets established guidelines
- Conduct business and technical presentations for the customer
- Provide innovation solutions to complex technical problems
- Understand and communicate government policies and regulations, operational mission and goals for assigned programs
- Collaborate with developers and QA to ensure business and system requirements are met, and to enhance functionality
- Attend required training. Perform backup support outside of the primary position function as assigned
- Interview and collaborate with stakeholders at multiple management levels to obtain requirements
- Document and manage software requirements
- Provide support for Developers, Test Team and client stakeholders in the creation and implementation of requirements
- Develop and update software Documentation
- Develop and update User Guides
- Design Document/RTM drafts
- Develop software Release Notes
- Develop Process Analysis and Standard Operating Procedures
- Provide Process and system diagrams using available tools
- Provide strategic advice to the lead, management and customers of the OIS
- Capable of implementing programming standards that support a secure and defect free application
- Interacts daily with government clients in order to meet the technical requirements for new initiatives
- Works with Quality Assurance / Quality Control teams to ensure the application remains secure and defect free
- Evaluate, design, and implement accepted programming standards as they relate to application and infrastructure
- Define and document processes to be used by all application developers on the team
- Plan, research, and recommend new equipment, software tools, and related technologies
- Use monitoring and performance analysis tools to troubleshoot and isolate application performance issues
- Update system and process documentation, produces user guides, ER diagrams, and SOPs as needed - Including Visio Network design drawings
- Perform other duties as assigned
Hiring Expectations
- We are only considering US Citizens and Green Card holders for this position. We are unable to sponsor for this role.
- No Third Parties
- Right to Represent authorization is required
- Expect technical interview screening
- Expect F2F interview
- Background check and/or credit check will be required