Application Business Analyst or Senior Application Business Analyst

the South Dakota State Government•Sioux Falls, SD

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a Full-Time 40 Hours Weekly position with the Bureau of Information and Technology - Agency and Application Support, Public Health Pillar. The Bureau of Information and Technology has full-time permanent positions in the State of South Dakota for Application/Business Analysts. With us, you can have a rewarding career on every level. In addition to challenging work, you'll have the opportunity to provide meaningful services to the people of South Dakota, participate in a range of diverse initiatives, and receive the support, coaching, and training necessary to advance your career. The successful candidate will work as part of a team and with state agencies to elicit, analyze, and document their critical business requirements. The goal is to reduce overall costs and provide more efficient use of resources. Solutions often include a platform and software development component and may also consist of business process improvements or software acquisition. Business Analyst level assignment, payrate, and classification will depend on the experience and qualifications of the applicant. Note, remote work may be possible for the selected candidate.

Requirements

understanding of technical problems and solutions in relation to the current and future business environment
knowledge of business structures, processes and existing systems to use technology in process improvements
understanding of State IT Security standards
knowledge of industry standards, such as Project Management Institute and International Institute of Business Analysis
strong attention to detail and documentation tracking skills
strong project management, relationship building and communication skills
understanding and negotiating the needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders
knowledge of the regulatory and compliance requirements to ensure needs are addressed in the business requirements definition
A Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, information systems, or related field or equivalent experience related to the position's role is preferred.
Experience in Agile/Scrum Methodology, software development life cycle (SDLC) implementations, and executing the SDLC against large system implementations is beneficial.
Experience facilitating meetings and discussion groups of various sizes, with all levels of organizations as well as leadership and project management are also beneficial.
Successful applicants should have experience in Microsoft products (MS Visual Studio, Visio, .NET Framework, SQL, Power BI, Project).
Experience in Health and/or Child Support-related systems is optional but desired.

Responsibilities

assessing and documenting systems and business requirements, functions, and governance rules
communicating regularly to agency leadership, project management team members and stakeholders
coordinating plans for systems testing, quality assurance, and user acceptance testing
extracting data, designing and implementing data models, and interpreting results to identify patterns and apply business context
identifying and reporting issues to the attention of relevant stakeholders and project management
producing artifacts, including user stories and acceptance criteria, story maps, data flows, process flows, etc.
translating business requirements into software requirements
assisting and mentoring junior business analysts to understand and document requirements
testing for quality assurance (QA) in projects and applications and validating developed features against requirements
collaborating with developers to implement requirements, provides necessary guidance to testers during QA process
establishing standards for testing, user stories, use case and documentation standards for use in projects
leading the execution of documented test cases and ad-hoc analysis and testing of systems, coordinating testing results, and re-testing as required
operating across multiple projects simultaneously to address production issues and design new applications
partnering with and supporting the Operations, Security, and Development IT teams to ensure that overall strategic goals are achieved
serving as a liaison between users of applications and the developers of applications in the analysis, design, configuration, testing, and maintenance of case management systems to ensure optimal operational performance
supporting pre- and post-production release issues, including defect resolution, emergency enhancement requests, and data patching
translating conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team