Business Analyst - Austin, United States - Allied Consultants (Texas)

Description

Overview

Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm which has for 32 years been a premier provider of technical and business professionals to clients in Texas. We are currently seeking an experienced Business Analyst to be a key resource on a technical services team.

Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan.Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law. Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background checkAllied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.

Responsibilities

The client's IT Division seeks a Worker to perform in a Business Analyst II role to assist in the following:

• Seeking, gathering, and analyzing information and data from stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Converting findings into meaningful documentation for use by the development team.
• Communicating with technical, non-technical, functional, management and executive staff.
• Working within cross-functional teams.
• Taking initiative to develop a foster a collaborative approach among teams before, during and after the requirements gathering process to achieve a common mission, vision, values, and goals.
• Tracking software development life cycle activity metrics as it relates to requirements and other established metrics.

The Worker must have a strong Business Analysis background with extensive experience in the following:

• Experience as a Business Analyst within an Enterprise-level application development environment.
• Experience working in a fast-paced information technology environment.
• Experience as a Business Analyst within an Enterprise-level application development environment.
• Experience developing solid requirements documents with a strong attention to detail to capture project need and scope.
• Robust skills facilitating and leading groups to clarify and define project requests, needs, scope and priorities, as well as delivering presentations for meetings involving cross-functional teams and including stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to provide clear and consistent status updates and inform stakeholders and agency leadership of project progress.
• Solid experience with the Microsoft Suite of tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, MS Project, and Visio).
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) methodologies.
• Knowledge of Case Management applications a plus but not required.
• Communicating and listening in a way that is focused on clear expression of, as well as understanding of ideas and concepts that ultimately lead to positive outcomes and results.
• Knowledge of Texas Project Delivery Framework.
• Prefer working knowledge of the following client's systems/programs (including but not limited to): IMPACT, PACES, PEIRS, ABCS, NEICE, SSCC, Child Placement Portal, and Community Based Care.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years

Required/Preferred

Experience

5

Required

Experience as a Business Analyst in an enterprise level software development environment

5

Required

Functional and technical requirements gathering, analysis and documentation with a strong attention to detail

5

Required

Experience with the Microsoft Suite of tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project and SharePoint)

4

Required

Developing Use Case documentation and User Stories that lead to clearly defined and numbered project requirements

3

Required

Facilitating meetings, requirements gathering sessions and conducting presentations

2

Required

Developing and presenting project status updates and reporting on key performance indicators for project success

2

Required

Communication skills, both verbal and written

2

Required

Knowledge of the Texas Project Delivery Frame

2

Required

Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle

1

Preferred

Candidates preferred who have a working knowledge of the following client's systems/programs (including but not limited to): IMPACT, PACES, PEIRS, ABCS, NEICE, SSCC, Child Placement Portal, and Community Based Care