Business Analyst

Position: Business Analyst

Location: St. Paul Minnesota 55155 Onsite

Duration: Contract

US Citizen or Green Card only

Job Description:

Work Location: St. Paul Minnesota 55155

Mostly onsite position with flexibility to occasionally work from home.

Candidate has to be onsite from day 1.

US Citizen or Green Card only

Duration: March 11 June 30 (project extensions after June 30th) June 30th is the end of the Fiscal year but work is expected to be extended until at least Dec 31st.

Business hours are Monday through Friday 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM.

Description:

• The Strategic Planning Office is seeking one Business Analyst to support the State with problem identification requirements definition determination of alternative solutions and the analysis design development and implementation of solutions and processes.
• The Business Analyst will be filling a role on multiple projects and will be part of the Strategic Planning Office. The candidate will be responsible for:
• Working directly with the project team to ensure understanding of the IT solutions requirements functionality size and scalability.
• Facilitating meetings with business owners and subject matter experts to identify impacted business processes and document the business requirements.
• Analyzing identified problems/gaps to determine whether system changes are required.
• Documenting business process improvements for projects to develop a representation of functionality to be used by the business to understand itself better improve the business system or design future state business processes to meet the courts needs.
• Working with vendors on business and system analysis practices and project requirements.
• Performing detailed research when required and reports research findings to the project team.
• Creating and documents test cases to ensure the final product meets the business requirements and expectations.
• Working with stakeholders to gather and document functional and nonfunctional requirements to be included in a Request for Proposal (RFP).
• Establishing evaluation criteria and scoring methodology for vendor response to Request for Proposal (RFP) to determine the best solution.
• Participating in reviewing and scoring RFP responses against the established evaluation criteria.
• Consolidating scores and feedback from stakeholders and make recommendation to project team.

Minimum Qualifications Must meet all 3 bullets

• Possession of a bachelors degree in computer sciences management information systems or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of significant experience in business and systems analysis in an IT environment.
• Experience with Microsoft Visio.

Preferred Qualifications

• CBAP Certification is a plus.
• Work experience in a state agency criminal justice or other government settings (this is strongly preferred so if possible like to have this experience too).

Preferred skills

• Excellent analytical and problemsolving skills
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Strong interpersonal skills emphasizing customer service decisionmaking conflict management and teamwork
• Ability to plan organize and perform work with deadlines and minimal supervision
• Possession of a broad understanding of technology
• Ability to adapt quickly to change