Technical Business Analyst

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This role is for a Technical Business Analyst supporting a New Mexico state agency's digital transformation. Contract length is unspecified, with a pay rate of "unknown." Key skills include business analysis, UAT, and familiarity with JIRA and SQL.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
💰 - Day rate
Unknown
Unknown
🗓️ - Date discovered
April 25, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
Unknown
🏝️ - Location type
On-site
📄 - Contract type
Unknown
🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
📍 - Location detailed
Santa Fe, NM
🧠 - Skills detailed
#"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #MS SQL (Microsoft SQL Server) #Jira #UAT (User Acceptance Testing) #Scripting #Business Analysis #Python #Data Engineering #Documentation #SQL (Structured Query Language)
Role description

We’re seeking a Technical Business Analyst to support a major digital transformation initiative with a New Mexico state agency. This role is central to bridging legacy systems and future-ready solutions—offering a meaningful opportunity to shape how government services are delivered for years to come.

Responsibilities

   • Collaborate with project managers and sponsors to define scope, vision, and priorities

   • Identify stakeholders and user groups, capturing detailed business and technical requirements

   • Lead workshops, interviews, surveys, and site visits to gather insights and user needs

   • Analyze and document functional and non-functional requirements using industry-standard templates

   • Translate user input into clear requirements and development-ready specs

   • Create process models, use cases, flow diagrams, and system mockups

   • Support vendor/product selection, evaluation, and QA efforts

   • Define and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT)—develop test plans, support users during testing, and ensure feedback is documented and acted upon

   • Maintain all BA documentation: business requirements, system specs, communication plans, user guides, training materials

   • Track and manage requirement changes throughout the project lifecycle

   • Collaborate with data engineers and PMs on architecture planning and backlog management

   • Assist with light scripting or querying for mock data and data validation

Qualifications

   • Demonstrated experience applying IIBA BABOK or equivalent BA frameworks

   • Strong background in business analysis for IT modernization or government transformation projects

   • Hands-on experience planning and executing User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

   • Expertise in requirement elicitation, analysis, and documentation

   • Ability to manage competing priorities and communicate clearly with both business and technical teams

   • Familiarity with tools like JIRA, Confluence, Visio, or equivalent

Nice to Haves

   • Experience working with state or federal agencies, particularly in New Mexico

   • Understanding of Department of Information Technology (DoIT) standards and governance

   • Light coding/scripting experience to mock or validate data systems (SQL, Python, etc.)

   • Previous work supporting enterprise application transitions or procurement efforts

   • Experience developing UI/UX prototypes