Senior Business Analyst
Senior Business Analyst
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20-08-2025
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Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below Client runs through fifteen executive departments which carry out the day-to-day administration of the federal government. Popular departments like Agriculture and Rural Development Civil Rights Environment Health and Human Services Natural Resources Secretary of State. This Client has opportunities in a number of career pathways including but not limited to business and administrative support education and human services IT and computers medical and healthcare natural resources law enforcement and public safety skilled trades and more. With positions in over 18 state departments your perfect career fit is waiting for you at the client. This client is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Job Title: Senior Business Analyst
Location: Lansing MI 48933
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Hybrid
Work Type: Temporary Assignment
Shift: Day Shift 8.00AM - 5.00PM
Job Description:
- Seeking a Senior Business Analyst to assist with the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) Grants Management System known as NexSys.
- The MDE Grants Management System is comprised of about 100 different grant applications that is responsible for over 2 billion dollars of payments to state educational entities.
- We are looking for someone who understands and has experience with the software development lifecycle as they will be managing work requests to support operational support needs for web applications and gather requirements for project initiatives. This role is the liaison between the technical team and the business client.
- This will be about 90% of the time for this resource.
- This is a senior position so the selected candidate will possess leadership skills including but not limited to the ability to delegate tasks to the team effective communication and being able to lead a team of business analysts and be comfortable leading requirement meetings with business and other technical resources.
Tasks:
- Facilitates meetings with the technical team and business client.
- Gathers requirements and project specifications by leading requirement sessions independently
- Maintain backlog of work items in Azure DevOps
- Must operate in a hybrid (Agile/Waterfall) environment and actively manage requirements change requests and testing needs.
- Manage project tasks timelines and communication between business product owner and development team associated with the Change Management lifecycle
- Track sprints and ticket progress in Azure DevOps
- Ensures the team is adhering to the department change management policies
- Acts as a liaison with client auditors
- Maintains documentation on the project SharePoint Site.
- Must be self-starter detail oriented and a critical thinker
- Provide management with information such as project status reports and resource demand projections.
- Work with team management and business partners to continuously improve the process.
Skills
- Exposure to Complex IT web Applications within the past 5 years
- Experience in gathering and documenting business requirements
- Experience in a role as a business analyst supporting a software development project in the past 5 years
- Ability to lead meetings conduct training & information sessions communicate at a level appropriate to the audience make oral and written reports and presentations
- Proficiency with MS Office
- Experience working as a liaison between the development team and project manager or business client in a software development project
- Experience with Azure DevOps; including creating User Stories and queries
- Knowledge and understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle
- Experience with Federal State or local grant management systems
- Experience developing wireframes mockups & prototypes in Figma or comparable design software
- Project management skills and knowledge in project management and related methodologies
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Employment Type
Full-time
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