Position: Business Analyst
Location: Baton Rouge, LA Remote
Duration: 19 months
Project Scope:
The client was established as a means of recognizing cost savings through the consolidation of State IT assets and resources. The creation of OTS consolidated a wide variety of existing hardware platforms, operating systems, database management systems, networks, third party software, and custom applications.
OTS leads the State’s technology procurement process in order to standardize technology over the entire organization, seek efficiencies of operations, maintenance, and scalability of new products introduced to the OTS suite of services which can eventually be offered to all in-scope agencies.
Responsibilities:
- Define and document business functions and processes;
- Analyze the integration of business functions with technology;
- Maintain a working knowledge of accounting, procurement, finance or contract management
- Assist with business case development and business process reengineering;
- Consult with management and personnel to identify, define and document business needs and objectives, current operational procedures, problems, input and output requirements;
- Recommend new processes that yield operational efficiencies;
- Conduct cost-benefit analysis;
- Develop or assist with project work plans, project timelines;
- Develop or assist with ITBs, RFIs, RFRs, RFPs and contracts. The Business Analyst should be familiar with State of Louisiana procurement laws and procedures, and also have experience in developing technical specifications and negotiating with vendors to acquire IT assets.
Mandatory Skills:
- Three (3) years of experience with Business Analytics processes including creating requirements and design documents and facilitating project related meetings with business partners.
Desirable Skills:
- Minimum (one) 1-year experience working as a Business Analyst in an Agile Environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
- Minimum (one) 1-year experience writing complete User Stories, including descriptions and acceptance criteria based on requirements gathering
- Familiarity with Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR)
- Familiarity with Jira
- Familiarity with Jama and/or Zephyr testing systems
- PMI-PBA or CBAP certification
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience managing Projects utilizing Software Development methodologies such as but not limited to: Waterfall, DevOps, Extreme Programming, Rapid Application Development, Agile Development, etc.
- Experience with Oil Spill Response, Natural Resource Damage Assessment, and Restoration Project tracking systems and programs.
