Information Technology Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst Location: Hybrid- Austin, TX 78701 (3 Days in office) Job Type: Long-term Contract (with potential extension) Note: Only Local to Austin candidates will be considered. Job Description • Identify opportunities for improving business processes to be more efficient or effective and assist in the business case vetting and preparation of proposals for information management efforts. • Coordinate the analysis of program policies and procedures to determine their effect on automated systems and system functional areas. • Focus on business value to develop ideas, including awareness of industry trends, risk assessments, business continuity, and business capability requirements. • Coordinate and/or analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems; and coordinate and/or analyze computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. • Coordinate the service request life cycle through customer-related service request responses, business requirements coordination, technical specifications, and related artifacts review, and monitor system integration and user acceptance testing prior to implementation. • Coordinate with outside vendors and contractors to complete projects and service requests; and define, may assign, and evaluate their work. • Identify potential project risks and difficulties, and design strategies to mitigate or avoid them. • Review complex project deliverables such as design documentation, test plans, and risk assessment plans, and provide comments and suggestions to document owners. • Leads and coordinates process change requests and manages a project’s scope, acceptance, installation, and deployment. • Correlate business value and priorities to planning activities and goal-setting. WORKER SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in management information systems or business administration • 8 years of experience planning, eliciting, analyzing, and managing business requirements and monitoring throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) • 8 years of experience leading simple and complex business process reengineering and transformation efforts that deliver efficiency improvements in quality and customer experience • 8 years of experience performing a business relationship manager (liaison) role between functional and technical teams • 8 years of experience leading project teams and/or operational and strategic organizational efforts that involved managing changes and stakeholder relationships, tracking and communicating performance, ensuring resource availability and allocation, coordinating third parties/vendors, and delegating tasks • 8 years of experience with projects addressing some of the following fields: • Data management, data quality, data warehousing, data modeling, data migration, and integration, secure file transfers, enterprise system analysis, enterprise architecture, information security principles • 8 years of experience working in a scrum master role or in an agile scrum environment • Strong SQL skills, ability to write and execute advanced SQL in both Oracle and SQL Server • 8 years of experience working on prior implementations/conversions from a legacy PeopleSoft application