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Role: Grants Business Analyst(W2 Only) Location: Crownsville, MDDuration: Long term ContractResponsibilities:High Level Duties: Provides technical and administrative direction for personnel performing software development tasks, including the review of work products for correctness, adherence to the design concept and to user standards and for progress in accordance with schedules. Must be able to coordinate with the Program/Project Manager to ensure problem solution and user satisfaction. Makes recommendations, if needed, for approval of major systems installations. Prepares milestone status reports and deliveries/presentations on the system concept to colleagues, subordinates, and end user representatives. Provides daily supervision and direction to support staff.
- Knowledge of grants management and grants management systems.
- Demonstrated Knowledge of the requirements analysis and documentation requirements of the Agile software development SDLC.
- Experience and certification as an Agile Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) preferred.
- Demonstrated knowledge of IT software requirements elicitation, documentation, and management.
- Experience with financial management, document management, human resources management, or procurement management software.
- Prior senior level experience preparing business cases or other type of request for IT software development.
- Prior senior level experience writing project deliverables such as a functional requirements document or a requirements traceability matrix.
- Demonstrated knowledge of business process / workflow automation.
- Demonstrated knowledge of performing gap analyses.
- Prior experience planning and conducting IT software quality assurance testing including writing test cases.
- Prior experience preparing and delivering informative, well-organized presentations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Breadth of knowledge in the Business Analyst Body of Knowledge (BABOK).
- Resource shall, in cooperation with other DoIT Business Analysts, IT Project Managers and other DoIT staff, facilitate the IT Project Review process.
- Resource shall, as needed, develop project feasibility and cost benefit analysis reports to assist the IT Steering Committee in determining whether a project should proceed.
- Resource shall work with the assigned Project Manager to transition a project, once approved, from concept request through preliminary planning to become a chartered project. This includes identifying the benefits of a project, potential project team members, project deliverables, and project performance metrics.
- Resource shall participate on project teams for new systems. Participation can include but is not limited to the following:
- Be familiar with and communicate information on the requirements development and management process to the project team.
- Assist Project Managers with requirement identification and scope definition.
- Comprehend basic to complex business issues translating business needs into understandable requirements.
- Facilitate requirements elicitation session(s) with stakeholders.
- Review and document existing (as-is) business processes.
- Develop and document future (to-be) business processes.
- Differentiate between modeling techniques to determine which is appropriate for a project (e.g., use cases, workflow, swim lanes, context diagrams).
- Develop and maintain or assist in the development and maintenance of project documentation such as a Functional Requirements Document (FRD).
- Conduct a quality review walkthrough of business requirements documentation.
- Participate in the planning and execution of system testing including development of test plans, test cases, and requirements traceability matrices.
- Participate in the planning and development of system documentation and training materials.
- Participate in training sessions.
- Develop artifacts in compliance with the State SDLC
- Resource shall operate as a spokesperson for the GGO during interactions with granting agencies to determine appropriate computer-related solutions to business problems. This can include but is not limited to:
- Examine a business activity to help decide whether new IT solutions will improve productivity.
- Discuss existing business models and the flows of data in the business with those involved.
- Write, review and edit specifications, RFPs, business processes and provide recommendations related to the proposed solution.
- Understand the role of the system in the organizational business area’s overall business process and provide ideas and recommendations regarding the evolution of the system and any project interdependencies to consider.Using a variety of technical and presentation tools, produce high level outline designs of new IT systems, and perform a cost benefit analysis and/or a buy/build/reuse analysis
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