Texas locals - Enterprise Business Analyst - Austin, TX; Hybrid

Enterprise Business Analyst

Location:

Austin, TX (Hybrid)

Duration: 8 months Contract with possibility to extension

Description Of Services:

The Enterprise Business Analyst will lead the large portions of analysis, design, and requirements management for a full system replacement initiative. This role evaluates the modules of current legacy environment, defines future-state processes and system capabilities, and ensures the new solution aligns with business needs, technical standards, and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with senior leaders to understand enterprise business goals and translate them into strategic roadmaps and requirements
• Lead discovery and documentation of current-state processes, data flows, and system dependencies.
• Define future-state workflows, business process improvements, business architecture models, and modernization requirements.
• Develop clear business, functional, and technical requirements, including user stories and process maps.
• Conduct fit/gap analysis for COTS/SaaS or custom system options.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, QA, and vendors to validate solution design and alignment with requirements.
• Facilitate workshops and meetings with agency leadership, SMEs, and technical teams.
• Support RFP development, vendor evaluations, and contract documentation.
• Ensure requirements traceability and support testing and UAT activities.
• Maintain compliance with state/federal regulations, security standards, and accessibility guidelines.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of Business Analysis experience supporting large IT modernization projects.
• CWIS/SACWIS experience
• Expertise operating at a strategic, organizational-wide level, focusing on high-level business goals and strategy
• Ability to collaborate with senior leaders to understand business goals and translate them into a strategic roadmap
• Conduct high-level cost/benefit analysis and business case development for proposed initiatives
• Plan and lead a BA team working on large-scale, complex projects that span multiple business units
• Proven experience with full system replacement or major legacy modernization.
• Ability to lead BAs through SDLC requirements ensuring the business enterprise strategic goals are being met
• Strong skills in requirements elicitation, documentation, and business process modeling.
• Experience working with state government or regulated environments.
• Proficiency with tools like Visio, Lucidchart, Azure Dev Ops, Jira, or similar.
• Solid understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with large legacy replacements, system integrations, and cross-agency workflows.
• Participation in RFP, procurement, or vendor management processes.