Senior Business Analyst

Position: Senior Business Analyst

Location: Remote (Preferably within driving distance of Sacramento CA)

Duration: November 1 2023 March 2025

Highlighted Requirement: Prior experience with PAL and recent direct experience with the California government.

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Business Analyst to join our team for a critical project with Talent Amp / State of California. The ideal candidate will possess expert knowledge of the system development lifecycle (SDLC) project management principles and various areas related to project operations. This includes financial management business analysis operational readiness organizational change management and functional and technical infrastructure support.

Requirements:

• Experience:

  • Minimum five (5) years experience in performing a variety of business analyst functions including but not limited to:
    • Assessment of analysis scope and tasks
    • Planning business analysis tasks
    • Elicitation definitions and documentation of various business user and system requirements
    • Writing functional design specifications
    • Requirements traceability matrices
    • Perform analysis for business process improvement application design and workflow automation
    • Documenting asis and tobe processes
    • Modeling and documenting functional designs and process workflows
    • Developing test scripts
    • Transition plans and/or implementation requirements
    • Managing/updating configuration
    • Implementing best practice solutions
    • Providing ongoing support as required
    • Leading and working within crossfunctional teams

• System Development Lifecycle (SDLC):

  • Minimum five (5) years experience following SDLCs to identify evaluate and recommend business or technical requirements applied to the design and development of systems and networks.

• End User Interaction:

  • Minimum five (5) years experience working directly with end users in a production support environment.

• Stakeholder Engagement:

  • Minimum five (5) years facilitating collaborating and negotiating with all levels of stakeholders including executivelevel decisionmakers.

• Documentation:

  • Minimum three (3) years expertise with complex process and systems requirement documentation standards.

• Independence and Teamwork:

  • Minimum three (3) years experience working independently and as part of a team meeting deadlines and demonstrating problemsolving skills.

• Methodologies:

  • Minimum two (2) years experience with process analysis systems analysis process architectures systems analysis methodologies and project management methodologies including both Waterfall and Agile.

• Education:

  • Bachelors degree in computer science Information Technology or related field.

• Skills:

  • Strong analytical and problemsolving skills.
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to work independently.
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills.
  • Minimum two (2) years experience using SQL or other query tools to perform analysis.
  • Minimum three (3) years experience using requirements management industry best practices.
  • Minimum three (3) years experience developing training plans and training end users of all levels.
  • Minimum two (2) years experience refining solutions for requirements management methodology.
  • Minimum two (2) years experience facilitating joint application design (JAD) and/or collaborative design sessions.
  • Minimum two (2) years experience mentoring less experienced business analysts to develop their skills.
  • Minimum two (2) years experience working with State of California government Environmental Information Technology (IT) offices.

If you meet the above requirements and are interested in this exciting opportunity please submit your resume highlighting your relevant experience with PAL and the California government.