Business Analyst

Location : Tallahassee FL 32301 Onsite

Education:

Bachelors degree or Masters degree in Business Administration Communication Information Systems or another related field is required. Equivalent work experience may substitute for the educational requirement.

Experience:

• A minimum of 3 to 5 years of solid business/systems analysis experience and software development projects is required.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite particularly Excel Word PowerPoint required.

• Experience working with Microsoft DevOps is highly desired.

• Knowledge of Rules 60GG-1 60GG-5 Florida Administrative Code is highly desired.

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is highly desired.

• Experience with directing and managing project resources is highly desired.

• Experience with configuration and customization of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products is highly desired.

• Experience with data migration is highly desired.

• Knowledge of change and release management is highly desired.

• Preference will be given to candidates with knowledge of Florida Department of Transportation systems and applications.

• Experience working with Microsoft Power BI is highly desired.

Primary Job Duties/ Tasks:

The activities this candidate will be tasked with include but are not limited to the following:

• Research and understand FDOT business processes and their inter-relationships.

• Research and understand the FDOT Materials Acceptance and Certification (MAC) system.

• Facilitate joint analysis workshops with the business units.

• Gather and document business and technical requirements.

• Coordinate and lead the activities of the development team.

• Collaborate with the technical and functional teams to develop technical specifications and other documents in support of the Identity Administration and Governance solution.

• Coordinate data migration and development teams.

• Create detailed use cases business rules and requirements.

• Develop and execute Test Plans and Test Cases.

• Coordinate and oversee the User Acceptance Testing and Regression Testing.

• Track bugs and backlog items using Microsoft DevOps.

• Provide daily updates to the Project Management Team.

• Perform oversight reviews of deliverables for compliance with department standards.

Job Specific Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs):

The submitted candidate must be able to apply specific knowledge skills and abilities in the following areas:

• Business Analysis: Ability to perform detailed research business analysis as-is and to-be analysis process modeling. Use of software tools is required and include but are not limited to MS Word MS PowerPoint MS Excel and SmartDraw.

• System Analysis & Design: Ability to perform System Analysis & Design using a variety of modeling methodologies and techniques.

• Facilitation: Ability to expertly facilitate workshops and meetings with stakeholders.

• Technical Understanding: Technical knowledge and understanding of IT infrastructure and software development practices and techniques.

• Project Management: Knowledge of State of Florida Project Management Rule 60GG-1. Ability to apply principles and techniques in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).

Additional:

• Advanced skills with Microsoft products: SharePoint Teams Word Excel PowerPoint Power BI and Project.

• Ability to relate to stakeholders needs document their requirements and perform duties in the absence of staff.

• Ability to receive and give constructive criticism and maintain effective work relationships with others.

• Ability to adjust to changing demands in a dynamic environment with diverse work assignments.

• General Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs):

The submitted candidate must be able to apply common knowledge skills and abilities in the following areas:

• Initiative: Must be able to comprehend assignments organize workload and meet deadlines with little direction. Must be able to monitor and analyze situations to determine the next step.

• Communication: Can clearly convey information in both written and verbal formats to individuals or groups in a wide variety of settings (i.e. project team meetings management presentations etc.). Must have the ability to effectively listen and process information provided by others.

• Customer Service: Works well with clients and customers (i.e. business office public or other agencies). Able to assess the needs of the customer provide information or assistance to satisfy expectations or resolve a problem.

• Decision Making: Makes sound well-informed and objective decisions utilizing critical thinking skills and analysis.

• Flexibility: is open to change new processes (or process improvement) and new information. Can adapt in response to new information changing conditions or unexpected obstacles. Ability to receive and give constructive criticism and maintain effective work relationships with others.

• Interpersonal: Shows friendliness courtesy understanding and politeness to others

• Leadership: Motivates encourages and challenges others. Can adapt leadership styles in a variety of situations.

• Problem Solving: Able to identify evaluate and use sound judgement to generate and evaluate alternative actions and make recommendations as accordingly.

• Team Building: Encourages inspires and guides others toward accomplishing the common goal as an equal member of the team.

• Quality Assurance: Knowledge of the ideologies techniques and tools for quality assurance and control. The ability to put the ideologies techniques and tools into practice.