Business System Analyst; Temporary

Seattle, WA

Full time

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Reporting to the Technology Project Manager, the Business System Analyst 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.

• 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.
• Create and maintain detailed system documentation in collaboration with technical contributors (e.g. backend and frontend developers, integration and database engineers, analysts, technical project managers).
• 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 in the testing and validation of systems to ensure a quality product is delivered.
• Work collaboratively with ORIS staff and business partners to create effective communications on upcoming system and process changes for campus end-users and other business partners.
• Design and facilitate requirements workshops, user research sessions, and collaborative design sessions.
• Perform enterprise-level analysis, identifying business needs and capability gaps, creating business cases, and determining high-level solution approach and scope.

• Technical Systems Analysis:
• Provide system analysis and develop supporting artifacts such as data dictionaries, mapping documents, entity relationship and conceptual diagrams, to support systems integration, data migration, and reporting.
• Translate business requirements into reporting frameworks and technical definitions for development and ongoing enhancement of data collection and management.
• Use querying tools and languages such as T-SQL to analyze data to inform business decisions, validate system behavior, and aid in QA of data.
• Partner with team members in the development of test cases for data and reporting.
• Business Process Analysis:
• Work with customers to define current- and future-state business processes, using process modeling tools and techniques that allow for easy visualization and consumption by varied audiences invested or affected by the changes.
• Facilitate stakeholder groups to consensus regarding new business process designs.
• Assess the impact of business process changes within people, systems, operations and management, and identify linkages to business strategies.
• Utilize techniques for assessing root cause analysis and value stream mapping to ensure focus is on the issues that can affect positive change and add business value most directly.

• Establish and foster good working relationships with business partners, stakeholder groups, and fellow team members by providing ongoing communication and check-ins throughout the design and implementation phases to ensure products are…