Technical Business Analyst

Onsite 3 days per two-week pay period for the first 3-6 months, then Remote

Overtime: 5%

Travel:
Up to 5% local travel

Length:
Up to 5 years

MUST be US Citizen to be eligible to apply for Federal Background Check

Requires Real  or Valid Passport to interview

This contract Technical Business Analyst 2 position supports the Project Management Office (PMO) within the Information Technology organization. The IT PMO manages various IT initiatives for Corporate, Power, and Transmission business lines. This position provides technical business analysis support for small to medium-size business technology proposals and projects within the IT PMO portfolio. Assignments are determined based on proposal or project needs and workload shifts.

This position works closely with a variety of internal clients, stakeholders, vendors, technical subject matter experts (SMEs), and others with varying degrees of technical understanding. The corporate manager, senior, or lead analysts will provide support and direction to this contract position

• Provide business analysis support and assistance, eliciting documents and managing requirements, to support the implementation of IT systems for a variety of internal corporate clients implementing small to medium
  -sized projects, as per the organization’s established System Life Cycle (SLC) process.
• Collaborate with senior or lead org analysts or corporate manager to identify and plan business analysis work needed to meet project needs, which may include:
• Recommend the artifacts and level of detail for the business analysis effort, i.e. the analysis objective which supplies the technical team with information that assists in planning a system build.
• Recommend the business analysis approach to satisfy the analysis objective, including the specific tasks and deliverables
• Collaborate with senior or lead org analysts or corporate manager in planning the requirements gathering and elicitation strategy (e.g. techniques to be used, appropriate for the project type and the stakeholders involved).
• Identify and recommend resource levels needed to accomplish the business analysis work in accordance with the project schedule.
• Conduct preliminary analyses on proposals for IT systems.
• Work with business lines to understand their needs and identify their goals and objectives.
• Take ambiguous, high-level, and incomplete information about a business problem and synthesize it into a clear, concise scope statement.
• Assist business lines in developing a business case to justify an IT investment.
• Participate in market research to assist business lines in the viability assessment of existing products to meet customer needs.
• Provide technical teams with business requirements needed to select a technical approach to meet the business need.
• Work closely with internal client teams to provide technical business analysis assistance, which may include:
• Coordinate and facilitate planning and working sessions to elicit customer requirements. Guide and assist client teams through defining business requirements.
• Conduct user/stakeholder interviews, potentially including job shadowing and “day in the life” exercises.
• Review documentation on existing business processes and systems.
• Review regulations and policies to understand relevant compliance requirements and make recommendations.
• Analyze the gathered information to present an organized, coherent understanding of the business problem and the proposed solution.
• Analyze business processes and create current-state “as is” and future-state “to be” models, including conducting gap analyses.
• Review and make recommendations to align business processes with industry standards and best practices.
• Make recommendations to identify the product quality…