Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Posting Title
- Business Analyst - # of Positions - 1

Desired Career Level - SME
- Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree

Contract Start Date - 03/01/2026 - Contract End Date - 02/28/2031

Project Name
- Office of Technology and Strategic Services
- Requesting Agency
- Mississippi Department of Education

Work Location
- Jackson, MS

Remote Option - 100% Remote

Shift Start Time - 8:00 AM (CST) - Shift End Time - 5:00 PM (CST)

Schedule Required
- Mon
- Fri
- Other (Please specify)

Hours per Week - 40 - Overtime? - Occasional

On-Call Required
- On-Call Details

Expenses Reimbursed
- No
- Travel
- No
- Travel Frequency
- Not Required

Criminal Background Check/Drug Screen Requirement
- Standard Hire Right Package B

Position Description and Job Skill Set

This position will require a qualified technical Business Analyst with at least 7 years of experience in the following areas:

Ability to create and document detailed business requirements, perform analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for the stakeholders

Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation

A strong understanding of the documentation development process, the software development process, and product life cycles

Determine operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output and formats

Improve systems by studying and documenting current state and business rules

Ability to partner with other team members and stakeholder across multiple business units to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with executive teams

Ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience and business information to a technical audience

Ability to successfully apply complex knowledge of fundamental concepts practices, and procedures of technical writing

Construct workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specification

Translate stakeholder requests into formal requirements

Deliver high-quality business requirement documentation for business manuals, new development, training manuals, user guide, and system guide

Required Skills/Experience

Must be able to effectively communicate (verbal and written) requirements with stakeholders as well as development team

Must be able to collaborate with Project Manager, Architect, and developers to ensure business requirements are communicated, accepted, and meet expectations

Must be able to translate and simplify requirements from stakeholders into written requirement documents for development team. Documents include:
Formal Business Requirements Document, Functional Design Document, Technical Design Document, Technical Use Cases, User stories, Business Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test cases.

Must be able to create diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of business processes

Must be able to create and manage test cases for Quality Assurance

Must be familiar with software and database development concepts. Technical Business Analyst work on a software development team

Must have experience developing technical documentation for enterprise software users, system administrators, and other technical audiences

Strong experience in requirements management and creating all documents listed above

Strong experience in mapping business processes into technical documentation

Scoring Method

Criteria
- Score Percentage Must equal 100%

Cost - 30

Required Skills/Experience - 35

Candidate Interview - 35