Please reply to:- Sophia Menezes,Abigail / [email protected] / 609-606-9010 Ext.# 1421
Job Details:-
| Job Title : | Business Analyst/Consultant |
| Location : | Lansing, MI |
| Expected Duration of Project : | 0 Months |
| Start Date : | 09/30/2014 |
| Interview Type : | Telephonic |
| Duties & Responsibilites : | -IT Staff Augmentation for the DTMB Customer Services/Business Planning Section supporting the Quality of Life (QOL) agencies; DEQ, DNR, and MDARD. -Request two Business Analyst/Consultant Senior positions for maximum 1 year duration to supplement the current Business Planning section business analyst staff. Skills Required: • Design and document bureau or department wide IT solutions or when new technology is involved • Provide professional technical expertise in IT project estimating and budgeting. • Assist technical architect or data base administrator to draft technical database model that captures requirements of data elements and designs data elements to best meet application needs • Develop and manage defect tracking logs and facilitate problem resolution. • Define requirements for disaster recover planning and implementation. • Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task, and workflow analysis. • Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs. • Proactively communicate and collaborate with customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: (Functional requirements (Business Requirements Document), iii. Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs) • Work independently with clients to define project concepts and business cases, under direction of project manager • Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans. Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements. • Communicate and interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts. • Serves as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow. • Develop requirements specifications according to standard system development methodology templates, using natural language. • Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs. • Liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams. • Directs the activities necessary to develop and maintain software documentation of Customer Applications • Liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams. • Develops and manages the relationship and expectations of the Client agency managers through project management and change management methods. • Directs projects team consisting of DTMB staff, contractors/vendors, and consultants by enforcing DTMB Project Management Methodology and System Development Methodologies (Waterfall and Agile). • Directs the activities necessary to develop and maintain software documentation of Customer Applications • Derives options and estimates for the design, development, testing and implementation of software projects. • Determines the need for and coordinates the involvement of other internal DTMB divisions • Facilitates sessions with business partners to schedule and implement various application development projects. • Provides proactive communication between the DTMB managers and the Client agency managers • Develops an approach to accomplish special assignments as requested by the DTMB manager or the Client Agency. • Advises DTMB manager and Client Agency managers of significant changes in projects impacting timing of implementation, budget overruns or dramatic increases in staffing. • Serve as the focal point, and the technical project advisor, for projects to ensure project completion. • Oversee and coordinate the project team, DTMB Agency Services, the Project Management Office, and commercial vendors for ongoing and new technology projects. • Perform first-line decision-making efforts on basic project task direction by assessing the economic, political, operational, and organization implications of the project decision. • Develop project requirements, project goals, project plans, maintenance plans, resource plans; and project budgets • Manage project scope; including team’s creation of timelines, milestone achievements, GANTT charts and other mechanisms for planning and assuring projects are completed on schedule. • Monitor progress and ensure deliverables are made to assure adherence to plan and minimize risks. • Identify project risks and issues and develop mitigation plans. Develop and utilize escalation process for project risks and issues. • Transition completed project to applicable business owner/ business analyst/developer for future maintenance/system support. • Organize testing of projects. Incorporate all levels of security into test plans, which were identified as system requirements. Review and approve test plans developed by experienced-level ITPAs or/and Vendors. • Assure all stakeholders of projects are satisfied and oversee signoffs of the performance acceptance documentation with client concurs in accordance with SOM Project Management and SEM Guidelines. • Monitor projects to be sure departmental standards and applicable state and federal laws are being followed; and if not, develop recommendation criteria in consultation with state, local and federal partners as appropriate. • Implement and monitor a Quality Assurance Program including processes, procedures, metrics, and best practices for the project. • Provide project methodology, mentoring, tools, and training to the project team and DTMB Agency Services staff. • Maintain records and prepare any office correspondence related to the project tasks. • Prepare status reports for the project Stakeholders in accordance with the communication plan. • Develop purchasing and contractual documentation as needed and assure submission in a timely manner. • Adhere to Project communication structure as identified in the Project plan. • Give presentations to management and large groups on various aspects of the project. Experience Required:5 years Senior BA. Experience Preferred:10 years Senior BA Education Required: Bachelors degree. Additional Information: -Risk Our Customer Services area supports more than 300 systems for QOL which impact the environment, natural resources, public health/safety, and agriculture and agritourist economy. -Business analyst staff fills essential roles in design and quality assurance for mission critical projects in QOL project portfolio. -The business analyst staff will lead business process design, re-engineering, and requirements that deliver more effective IT projects for our clients. -These senior business analyst staff augmentations are essential to the design of business processes and requirements for IT projects to support critical QOL systems. |
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