Information Technology Senior Business Analyst

Positions SummaryThis position collaborates with departments to gather document and analyze business requirements processes and workflows ultimately to provide technology solutions that add business value. They will translate these requirements into functional specifications for technology teams and work closely with defined teams to ensure successful project delivery. They will also be involved in identifying areas for process improvement and recommending solutions to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness. They will be self-directed learner with excellent communication skills able to provide direction training and support to ResponsibilitiesLeads cross-functional teams to implement complex mid to large scale projects to ensure adherence to budget schedule and scope of ongoing direction training and support to lower-level analysts and other internal with business stakeholders to understand needs objectives and documents and analyzes business processes identifying requirements challenges and business requirements into clear and concise functional specifications for technical specifications for internal and third-party application development; works with the IT staff or vendor and stakeholders throughout the development effort to ensure appropriate project scope is workflow analysis and diagrams end user processes to make recommendations to improve methods and procedures for assigned departments with defining functional technical requirements and scope when procuring new solutions to ensure the software solves the business problem meets IT standards and integrates with existing vendor relationships including being the primary vendor contact managing communication between internal staff and the vendor overseeing task management and providing status and tracks project milestones; manages and accounts for unforeseen delays then realigns schedules and expectations as and implements project communication plans providing status updates to affected and designs ad-hoc reports to support specific needs of department and helps plan software implementation activities including change management configuration user acceptance testing and training helping where necessary to meet the goal of a successful go comprehensive understanding of applications having a clear understanding of capabilities and how they interact to identify additional integration complex technical concepts to non-technical findings recommendations and project updates to various with management/project managers to define project scope objectives and project progress and identifies potential risks or deviations from the that delivered solutions meet the specified requirements and are of high data analyzes results using statistical techniques and provides ongoing customer service by training computer users/customers instructing users/customers on applications and data management. Responds to questions and that District data is protected by following Cybersecurity guidelines and clearly and directly with employees to promote a collaborative work management written documentation as out other such duties as may be assigned or RequirementsEducation & Experience:Bachelors degree in Computer Science Business Information Systems (BIS) Management Information System (MIS) or a computer related field. Equivalent experience and education can be 5 years proven experience in business analysis analytics application development data analysis and/or customer certification in Business Analysis (e.g. CBAP CCBA).Knowledge Skills & Abilities:Ability to analyze complex business problems and conduct thorough gap and impact to convey complex information clearly to diverse audiences; excellent verbal and written communication knowledge of software development processes project management and system architecture and experience with system of the following applications ERP EAM collaboration software such as SharePoint Power BI and Automate Microsoft Teams and Laserfiche a of scripting languages such as SQL a plus with current Microsoft SQL databases SQL query development and report writing a knowledge of API technologies is a attention to detail and a commitment to delivering exceptional customer service ensuring all project deliverables meet or exceed and interpreting complex laws rules regulations policies and exercise good judgment based upon established procedures and and Physical Working ConditionsDriving a District vehicle for business may be required. Employees required to drive as part of their job duties are responsible for maintaining a current valid and vehicle - appropriate driver s license of their resident state. This position requires minimum physical exertion with daily lifting requirements of up to 50 pounds. Significant finger dexterity required. Activities may include carrying office materials pulling and pushing file drawers and organizing paperwork. Duties are almost always carried out in an office environment. Equipment used includes a Network Computer System and/or personal computer various printers calculators copier and telephone.