Job summary:

Job description:

**** W2 or 1099 Only - No c2c *** F2F Interview - reasonable expenses will be paid for F2F Interview ***

The IT Business Analyst (BA) will support the  effort to provide Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations (DR-COOP) critical systems. The successful candidate will be responsible for interfacing with agency technical and business staff to fully understand their critical systems and the business operations they support. The BA will work under the supervision of a Senior Technical Project Manager to perform business impact analyses for  agencies as part of assessing the overall impact to operations if agency critical systems are jeopardized. The Business Analyst will draft customer questionnaires, conduct integrated teaming sessions, perform systems analysis and draft associated documentation; perform general business analysis activities; and develop and/or assist in the development of documentation related to all project activities for the life of the project

Responsibilities and Expectations:

• Leads business impact analysis efforts by interviewing agency business and technical systems owners, to include senior executives. 
• Interfaces with internal agency technical staff to convey an understanding of customer business systems in technical terms.
• Applies fundamentals of business systems analysis to properly document both process and automated systems.
• Ensures that all deliverables are met on time against the project schedule while ensuring the highest standards of quality.
• Ultimately responsible for the quality and comprehensiveness of all project documentation artifacts, to include, but not limited to, customer questionnaires, business impact analysis, business systems’ technical architecture, application and disaster recovery/failover testing plans. 
• Gathers and documents business, functional, and technical requirements for the purposes of software application development as necessary. 
• Documents accurate use cases and user stories based on customer requirements as necessary.
• Will communicate timelines and statuses on all deliverables in a timely manner.
• Will provide direct support to the Senior Technical Project Manager and  Program Management staff.
• Prepares reports for management.
• Will have strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to interface with a wide audience ranging from senior executives and associated business personnel to software developers, testers, database architects, and systems engineers.
• Displays a high degree of adaptability, flexibility, and willingness to assist fellow team members.
• Extremely strong critical thinking skills

Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience
• 10 years Experience as an IT Business Analyst
• Experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Solid understanding of software quality assurance and processes
• Intermediate understanding of relational data models.
• Experience conducting Business Impact Analysis
• 3 years Experience assisting in the architecting and/or documenting of disaster recovery/COOP solutions.
• Skilled with MS Office tools (Visio, PowerPoint, Word & Excel)
• Experience developing use cases and user stories.
• Experience in business process mapping or operational redesign / improvement
• Experience as a technical writer in a software/application development environment
• Experience creating process flows and system architecture diagrams using Visio
• Experience conducting integrated team sessions
• Experience working with technical staff such as software developers and DBAs

Contact the recruiter working on this position:

The recruiter working on this position is Rohit Reddy
His/her contact number is +(1) (510) 4950568
His/her contact email is rohit.reddy@msysinc.com

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