Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Overview

Tanaq Management Services (TMS) delivers professional, scientific, and technical services and information technology (IT) solutions to federal agencies in health, agriculture, technology, and other government services. TMS is a subsidiary of St. George Tanaq Corporation, an Alaskan Native Corporation (ANC) committed to serving federal customers while also giving back to the Tanaq native community and shareholders.

We are seeking a Sr. Business Systems Analyst to support a project for one of our federal clients. The Sr. Business Systems Analyst leads enterprise-level analysis efforts to strengthen workforce productivity and collaboration ecosystem, including SharePoint and related platforms. Serving as a strategic liaison among senior stakeholders, this role uncovers organizational needs, translates complex and often indirect business requirements into actionable specifications, and guides the development of practical, high-value solutions.

• Conduct analysis with project stakeholders, plan the execution of business analysis tasks, and communicate updates or changes as required; assess effectiveness and continually improve business analysis practices.
• Identify and define business needs and opportunities for improvement, develop the business case, understand organizational culture and structure, determine solution approach, and define the solution scope.
• Develop advanced business analysis within a significant segment of the organization where advice given and decisions made will have a measurable impact on effectiveness.
• Determine requirements using workshops, interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, user stories, scenarios, task and workflow analysis, prototyping, focus groups, and use cases.
• Establish the contribution that technology can make to business objectives, defining strategies, validating and justifying business needs, conducting feasibility studies, and producing high-level and detailed business models.
• Evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, segment high-level information into details, and abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding.
• Progressively elaborate stated requirements to sufficient detail that accurately defines the business need within the specified solution scope; validate that requirements meet the business need.
• Document business, task, and workflow processes using industry standard methods including business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, diagrams, flow charts, ensuring deliverables can be used to design a solution to the stated business problem.
• Assess solutions to ensure that strategic goals are met and requirements are satisfied, including assessment of internal designs, test cases, test plans, and manual procedures; define acceptance criteria, identify defects, and define and validate corrective actions.
• Ensure all stakeholders share a clear, consistent understanding of business and solution requirements and facilitate the resolution of conflicts, issues, and requirement-related risks, escalating only when necessary.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Serve as liaison and resource to project managers, developers, and other project team members throughout each phase of the process to clarify and resolve issues related to requirement, design, testing and acceptance specifications.
• Collaborate with project manager(s) in project scoping and planning.
• Guide senior management toward accepting change brought about through process and organizational change, serving as a leader to demonstrate the utility of business analysis to the project community and promoting the value of business analyst work.

• At least 7 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.
• Strong organizational and critical thinking skills.
• Advanced experience with quality frameworks such as SDLC, Agile, ITIL, Six Sigma, etc.
• Knowledge of project management practices.
• Ability to develop and deliver presentations to senior stakeholders.
• Teamwork and interpersonal skills.
• Skill in fact-finding and data collection.
• Strong analytical and product management skills to include effective documentation.
• Business process and data modeling.
• Ability to lead and facilitate meetings and groups.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to interpret and evaluate client informational needs and determine appropriate alternative solutions.
• Broad IT Domain expertise, particularly applications architecture.
• Business Domain expertise or the ability to rapidly gainli>
• Conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Experience with strategic planning and business case development.
• Applications design experience.
• Ability to consume and clarify large amounts of information.
• Ability to pass required Federal background screening and obtain and maintain government clearance.
• Must be legally…