VDOT Master Data Analyst

Engagement Type

Contract

Short Description

VDOT Master Data Analyst (HYBRID Required to be inperson 1 or 2 days a week at the Richmond VA location)

Complete Description

**local candidates strongly preferred due to onsite requirement
**candidate must be able to come to Richmond VA occasionally
**candidate must have experience working in data management as an analyst


The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) Business Integrated Solutions Division (BISD) is seeking a Master Data Analyst with demonstrated experience in data analytics to work as a key member of Business Analysis and Testing Support team. This analyst will support teams working in Agile (Sprint) as well as traditional Waterfall methodologies for Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

Responsibilities include analyzing problems; documenting business processes and data lifecycle; developing data requirements user stories and acceptance criteria; and testing. VDOT is a fastpaced organization with very high standards for work quality and efficiency. This position is expected to handle multiple projects and remain flexible and productive despite changing priorities and processes. Ongoing improvement and efficiency are a part of our culture and each team member is expected to proactively contribute to process improvements.

Responsibilities:

Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and pain points
Develop expertise in the customers datasets and data lifecycle
Profile source data; review source data and compare content and structure to dataset requirements; identify conflicts and determine recommendations for resolution
Conduct entity resolution to identify matching and merging and semantic conflicts
Elicit record and manage metadata
Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows context diagrams and data flow diagrams
Discover and document requirements and userstories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing
Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff
Utilize progressive elaboration; map stories to data models and architectures to be used by internal staff to facilitate master data management
Identify and group related user stories into themes document dependencies and associated business processes
Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog
Create conceptual prototypes and mockups
Collaborate with staff vendors consultants and contractors as they are engaged on tasks to formulate detail and test potential and implemented solutions
Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives test plans and test cases and executing test cases
Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress

Qualifications

Required:
The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business data analysis artifacts
5 years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs
Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into dataset requirements and user stories
Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process
Experience with enterprise data management
Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word Excel Access Outlook Visio PowerPoint Project Server)
Experience with reporting systems operational data stores data warehouses data lakes data marts
The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers

Preferred:

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) and/or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification
Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)
Experience using Team Foundation Server and work item tracking
Experience with automated testing tools such as Test Complete

Required/Desired Skills

Skill Required/Desired Amount of Experience Delivering business and systems analysis artifacts such as Business Requirements Documentation (BRD) Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) Required 10 Years Experience with enterprise data management data analysis and data lifecycle Required 5 Years Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology Required 5 Years Experience translating business and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories Required 0 Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development Required 0 Experience creating wireframes and prototypes (using applications such as Balsamiq) Required 0 Experience with large multimodule systems Required 0 Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word Excel Access Outlook Visio PowerPoint Project Server) Required 0 Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM) Required 0 Exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers Required 0 Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking Desired 0 Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete Desired 0 Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) or Certified Data Professional (CDP) Highly desired 0 Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification Desired 0

Questions

Description Question 1 Commonwealth of Virginia security policies prohibit the use of offshore IT contractors. Do you attest to the fact that your candidate will physically reside within the US for the duration of the assignment Question 2 Please list candidates email address. Question 3 In what city and state does your candidate PERMANENTLY reside Question 4 Have you as the submitting vendor shared the full job description and skills matrix with your candidate directly Please confirm that your candidate has reviewed and understood the full scope of the expectations. Question 5 Is the candidate available to occasionally work in Richmond VA as required by the project team This is REQUIRED. Question 6 How soon after an offer can your candidate start Question 7 Describe the candidates working experience with data as a master data analyst