Lead Business Analyst

Jefferson City, MO - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 8 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Purpose:
The purpose of this solicitation is to contract with a vendor to assist the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) in gathering and documenting requirements for the development work needed for the School Finance Foundation Formula Payment System Rewrite project.

Responsibilities:

Facilitate and participate in gathering analyzing and documenting business and technical requirements for the new payment system.
Review and update existing requirements documents (NA).
Map all data used in the various calculations from the original application tables and fields through to the current School Finance system tables and fields.
Document the specific fields in tables of data used for each calculation performed within the School Finance system.
Prepare current- and future-state process maps data flow diagrams and entity relationship diagrams.
Document the current system architecture and coordinate with DESE architects to create current- and future-state architectural diagrams.
Prepare dependency diagrams/graphs and interface requirements documents.
Prepare a comprehensive list of all formulas to be tabulated in the new system for both current-year and prior-year.
Prepare comprehensive lists of all reports that must be created in the new system for both current-year and prior-year.
Prepare a list of all Special Case Calculations and identify schools/LEAs that fall under them.
Perform security role mapping and prepare an access control matrix for the future-state system.
Prepare mockups for the new system GUI including calculation menus maintenance screens reports and other visuals.
Prepare detailed descriptions of two potential development solutions and recommend the best approach.
Assist DESE and ITSD in developing the solicitation for the vendor who will implement the chosen solution.
Use ADO to create Epics Features User Stories and Tasks to track project work.
Store all project-related documentation in the State-approved repository specified by ITSD.

Requirements:

5 years of experience in managing projects where current business processes and workflows are reviewed and improved to increase the agencys efficiency creating documentation on business process improvement plans and working with cross-functional teams to understand processes and procedures.
Experience in developing plans to improve a systems flexibility to allow end users to apply future changes with ease is preferred.

Purpose: The purpose of this solicitation is to contract with a vendor to assist the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) in gathering and documenting requirements for the development work needed for the School Finance Foundation Formula Payment System Rewrite project. ...

Facilitate and participate in gathering analyzing and documenting business and technical requirements for the new payment system.
Review and update existing requirements documents (NA).
Map all data used in the various calculations from the original application tables and fields through to the current School Finance system tables and fields.
Document the specific fields in tables of data used for each calculation performed within the School Finance system.
Prepare current- and future-state process maps data flow diagrams and entity relationship diagrams.
Document the current system architecture and coordinate with DESE architects to create current- and future-state architectural diagrams.
Prepare dependency diagrams/graphs and interface requirements documents.
Prepare a comprehensive list of all formulas to be tabulated in the new system for both current-year and prior-year.
Prepare comprehensive lists of all reports that must be created in the new system for both current-year and prior-year.
Prepare a list of all Special Case Calculations and identify schools/LEAs that fall under them.
Perform security role mapping and prepare an access control matrix for the future-state system.
Prepare mockups for the new system GUI including calculation menus maintenance screens reports and other visuals.
Prepare detailed descriptions of two potential development solutions and recommend the best approach.
Assist DESE and ITSD in developing the solicitation for the vendor who will implement the chosen solution.
Use ADO to create Epics Features User Stories and Tasks to track project work.
Store all project-related documentation in the State-approved repository specified by ITSD.

Requirements:

5 years of experience in managing projects where current business processes and workflows are reviewed and improved to increase the agencys efficiency creating documentation on business process improvement plans and working with cross-functional teams to understand processes and procedures.
Experience in developing plans to improve a systems flexibility to allow end users to apply future changes with ease is preferred.