Business Analyst, Advanced

Advanced Systems Design is seeking a Business Analyst, Advanced for our client located in Tallahassee, FL.

This position is onsite in Tallahassee, FL, and requires in-person availability starting day 1.

Job Overview:

• Analyze current-state business processes and identify opportunities for improvement, automation, or technology enablement;
• Facilitate interviews, workshops, and working sessions with business and technical stakeholders;
• Develop process maps, business requirements, functional requirements, use cases, and other supporting documentation;
• Identify gaps, constraints, risks, assumptions, dependencies, and opportunities associated with proposed solutions;
• Help stakeholders distinguish the underlying business need from a requested technology solution; and
• Partner with business stakeholders within a specific business function to align technical solutions with overarching Departmental strategies.

• Support the intake, analysis, and evaluation of technology demands from across the organization;
• Work with stakeholders to develop clear, complete, and actionable demand information;
• Analyze proposed demands for business value, alignment, scope, cost, resource needs, dependencies, risks, and operational impacts;
• Coordinate with appropriate OIT functions to identify technical, architectural, security, service management, and project considerations;
• Prepare information and analysis to support governance discussions, prioritization, sequencing, and investment decisions; and
• Maintain traceability from business need through demand evaluation and, when applicable, project or service delivery.

• Serve as a trusted liaison between business stakeholders and OIT;
• Facilitate productive conversations among stakeholders with differing priorities, perspectives, and levels of technical knowledge;
• Translate complex business and technical information into clear, concise, and understandable language;
• Build effective working relationships with business leaders, subject matter experts, OIT staff, and project teams;
• Present analysis, findings, and recommendations to a variety of audiences, including leadership; and
• Act as a vital liaison between a massive department user base, internal technical teams, and external vendor partners.

• Analyze demand and portfolio information to identify trends, gaps, risks, and procurement opportunities;
• Develop meaningful measures and reporting to improve transparency and support strategic decision-making;
• Help establish and maintain consistent business analysis and demand management practices;
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, tools, documentation, and stakeholder experiences; and
• Contribute to the continual improvement of OIT governance and demand management practices.

• Collaborate with project and technical teams to ensure business requirements are understood and appropriately addressed;
• Participate in solution evaluation, requirements validation, testing, and user acceptance activities as appropriate;
• Review proposed solutions against identified business needs and requirements;
• Support the transition of approved demands into projects, services, or other appropriate delivery paths; and
• Act as an active project team member across multiple concurrent projects, occasionally stepping up to serve as a project leader.

• Experience performing business analysis, requirements analysis, process analysis, or related functional procurement evaluations;
• Experience eliciting, gathering, analyzing, documenting, and communicating business processes and system requirements;
• Strong analytical and risk-based problem-solving skills;
• Ability to analyze business processes, identify operational gaps and inefficiencies, and develop practical cost-benefit improvement opportunities;
• Ability to translate end-user friction and field observations into actionable technical specifications and requirements for development teams;
• Strong verbal, written, facilitation, and interpersonal communication skills;
• Ability to work effectively and build consensus with both technical and non-technical stakeholders;
• Ability to act as a strategic bridge between large internal user bases, technical delivery teams, and external vendor partners;
• Ability to balance multiple shifting priorities and drive execution across concurrent operational initiatives;
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