VDOT Master Data Analyst

Engagement Type

Contract

Short Description

VDOT Master Data Analyst (HYBRID - Required to be in-person 1 or 2 days a week at the Richmond, VA location)

Complete Description

local candidates strongly preferred due to onsite requirement

candidate must be able to come to Richmond, VA occasionally

candidate must have experience working in data management as an analyst

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) Business Integrated Solutions Division (BISD) is seeking a Master Data Analyst with demonstrated experience in data analytics to work as a key member of Business Analysis and Testing Support team.

This analyst will support teams working in Agile (Sprint) as well as traditional Waterfall methodologies for Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

Responsibilities include analyzing problems; documenting business processes and data lifecycle; developing data requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria;

and testing. VDOT is a fast-paced organization with very high standards for work quality and efficiency. This position is expected to handle multiple projects, and remain flexible and productive, despite changing priorities and processes.

Ongoing improvement and efficiency are a part of our culture, and each team member is expected to proactively contribute to process improvements.

Responsibilities :

• Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and pain points
• Develop expertise in the customers' datasets and data lifecycle
• Profile source data; review source data and compare content and structure to dataset requirements; identify conflicts and determine recommendations for resolution
• Conduct entity resolution to identify matching and merging and semantic conflicts
• Elicit, record, and manage metadata
• Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows, context diagrams and data flow diagrams
• Discover and document requirements and userstories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing
• Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff
• Utilize progressive elaboration; map stories to data models and architectures to be used by internal staff to facilitate master data management
• Identify and group related user stories into themes, document dependencies and associated business processes
• Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog
• Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups
• Collaborate with staff, vendors, consultants, and contractors as they are engaged on tasks to formulate, detail and test potential and implemented solutions
• Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives, test plans and test cases, and executing test cases
• Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers / Scrum Masters are informed of the progress

Qualifications

Required :

• The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business data analysis artifacts
• 5+ years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
• Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs
• Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into dataset requirements and user stories
• Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process
• Experience with enterprise data management
• Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)
• Experience with reporting systems operational data stores, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts
• The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers

Preferred :

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) and / or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification
• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)
• Experience using Team Foundation Server and work item tracking
• Experience with automated testing tools such as Test Complete

Required / Desired Skills

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount

of Experience

Delivering business and systems analysis artifacts such as Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)

Required

Years

Experience with enterprise data management, data analysis, and data lifecycle

Required

Years

Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology

Required

Years

Experience translating business and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories

Required

Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development

Required

Experience creating wireframes and prototypes (using applications such as Balsamiq)

Required

Experience with large, multi-module systems

Required

Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)

Required

Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM)

Required

Exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers

Required

Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking

Desired

Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete

Desired

Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) or Certified Data Professional (CDP)

Highly desired

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification

Desired

Questions

Description

Question 1

Commonwealth of Virginia security policies prohibit the use of offshore IT contractors. Do you attest to the fact that your candidate will physically reside within the US for the duration of the assignment?

Question 2

Please list candidate's email address.

Question 3

In what city and state does your candidate PERMANENTLY reside?

Question 4

Have you, as the submitting vendor, shared the full job description and skills matrix with your candidate directly? Please confirm that your candidate has reviewed and understood the full scope of the expectations.

Question 5

Is the candidate available to occasionally work in Richmond, VA as required by the project team? This is REQUIRED.

Question 6

How soon after an offer can your candidate start?

Question 7

Describe the candidate's working experience with data as a master data analyst?