Business System Analyst; Temporary

Position: Business System Analyst (Temporary)
** Job Description
***** The Office of Research & Information Services (ORIS)
* has an outstanding opportunity open for a
* Temporary* Business System Analyst.
** The Business System Analyst (Payroll

Title:

Pro Staff Temp Position (E S)) is responsible for conducting a variety of activities to support ORIS projects from requirement gathering and needs assessment through design and implementation. The successful candidate works with stakeholders and the project team to design and develop applications that create an efficient process for researchers and administrators to procure and manage research grants.

This position contributes technical systems design and development expertise within a diverse team environment that includes stakeholders from a broad range of campus and administrative units. Successful candidates must interface productively with system end-users and have the flexibility to take on broader responsibilities when necessary.

Technical scope requires deep knowledge of standard software development processes including use case, user story and acceptance test case development, requirements management, quality assurance processes, systems analysis and documentation, database design and data modeling. Successful design of solutions also requires knowledge about the policies, functional processes and procedures, and roles of the University. The scope of tasks to be performed spans all project phases including opportunity analysis, design, implementation, communication, training, and support.

The UW is one of the world’s preeminent public universities. Our impact on individuals, our region and the world is profound — whether we are launching young people into a boundless future or confronting the grand challenges of our time through undaunted research and scholarship.

The responsibilities of the Senior Business Analyst have a direct impact on the UW’s breakthrough research by supporting researchers and research staff in their ability to successfully procure funding and efficiently manage research projects. The person in this position must be able to ask the right questions of the right people and be capable of compiling the data concisely, detailing the requirements needed in a format that enables design, development and quality assurance by the development team.

The position also requires an ability to communicate clearly with team members, business partners, and with campus end-users to ensure smooth roll out and successful adoption of new applications or enhancements. The Senior Business Analyst is also expected to contribute enterprise-level analysis and thinking to project plans, needs assessments, solution generation and integrations.
** Responsibilities:
** Business Analysis (60%)
• Research and analyze end-user needs using user centered design (UCD) practices, and various elicitation techniques, to include structured interviews, surveys, site visits, focus groups.
• Use agile methodologies to break complex feature requirements into manageable chunks of work that deliver value to the end user
• Create artifacts as needed to support clear understanding of business needs, including business process diagrams, use cases, scenarios, and task and workflow analysis.
• Facilitate discussions with stakeholders and subject matter experts, to develop shared understanding of needs and build consensus related to priorities and requirements and develop inclusive solutions that thoughtfully balance trade-offs and benefits among process stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain analysis plans that track all key analysis activities necessary during the opportunity analysis/discovery phase of new projects.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose or abstract up as needed to represent true underlying needs to audiences with different needs and/or levels of understanding.
• Document functional requirements, user interaction requirements, non-functional requirements, specifications, and acceptance criteria to support software development, quality assurance, support and learning materials, and other downstream development support processes.
• Play an active role…