Business Analyst

Hi All

Job : Business Analyst - Business Analyst SME Level

Location : 100% Remote.

The contract is long term, the manager only entered 2 / 28 / 26 as end date for recordkeeping purposes, contract will be no less than three years in duration.

The Mississippi Department of Education has a current goal for every community to effectively use a World-Class Data System to improve student outcomes. This goal has an outcome to increase the availability of quality data to drive decisions that improve student outcomes. We are planning to satisfy this goal in part by modernizing our current student information system along with improving the quality of data in connected systems. This will include web-based application development, and creation of dashboards and reports that will improve access, accuracy and ease of use for all stakeholders.

This position will require a qualified Technical Business Analyst to take the lead in the following tasks :

Ability to create and document detailed business requirements, perform analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for the stakeholders

Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation

A strong understanding of the documentation development process, the software development process, and product lifecycles

Determine operational objectives by studying and documenting business functions; gathering information; evaluating output and formats

Improve systems by studying and documenting current state and business rules

Ability to partner with other team members and stakeholder across multiple business units to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with executive teams

Ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience and business information to a technical audience

Ability to successfully apply complex knowledge of fundamental concepts practices, and procedures of technical writing.

Construct workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications

Translating stakeholder requests into formal requirements

Deliver high-quality business requirement documentation for business manuals, new development, training manuals, user guide, and system guide

Preference given to candidates with the below skills / experience. Must also meet minimum requirements.

MS Visio or similar product

Database Entity Design

Figma

Education data systems

SQL

Common Education Data Standards

Scrum / Agile

SDLC