Business Analyst or Senior Application Business Analyst

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Job

Agency:
Bureau of Information and Technology

Location:

South Dakota

Pay Grade: IT4 - IT6

This is a Full-Time 40 Hours Weekly position with the Bureau of Information and Technology - Development Division. For more information on the Bureau of Information and Technology, please visit https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). .

Are you a talented, creative IT business analyst, interested in working in a team atmosphere to help solve our clients’ most complex issues? Are you interested in working in one of the hottest areas of the market today, creating new solutions for our clients?

The Bureau of Information and Technology has a full-time permanent position in the State of South Dakota for Application/Business Analyst. With us, you can have a rewarding career on every level. In addition to challenging work, you'll have the opportunity to provide meaningful services to the people of South Dakota, participate in a range of diverse initiatives, and receive the support, coaching, and training necessary to advance your career.

Benefits of working for the State of South Dakota include:

• 6% fully matched retirement plan. Includes long term disability and family survivor benefits;
• $25,000 paid life insurance;
• ability to maintain a great work/life balance with flexible work schedules and generous leave policies;
• stable industry sector;
• little to no travel.

The successful candidate will work as part of a team and with state agencies to elicit, analyze, and document their critical business requirements. The goal is to reduce overall costs and provide more efficient use of resources. Solutions often include a platform and software development component and may also consist of business process improvements or software acquisition.

Business Analyst level assignment, payrate, and classification will depend on the experience and qualifications of the applicant.

If hired in as an IT4 – Application/Business Analyst, the incumbent will be paid an hourly rate between $26.45 and $33.06. The scope of work encompasses one or more projects, agencies, functions and/or business processes. Primary responsibilities include:

• assessing and documenting systems and business requirements, functions, and governance rules;
• communicating regularly to agency leadership, project management team members and stakeholders;
• coordinating plans for systems testing, quality assurance, and user acceptance testing;
• extracting data, designing and implementing data models, and interpreting results to identify patterns and apply business context;
• identifying and reporting issues to the attention of relevant stakeholders and project management;
• producing artifacts, including user stories and acceptance criteria, story maps, data flows, process flows, etc.;
• translating business requirements into software requirements.

If hired in as an IT6 – Senior Application/Business Analyst, the incumbent will be paid an annual rate between $66,582.14 and $83,227.68. Duties in this classification will be similar; however, project complexity and oversight may change. Successful applicants in this role apply depth of knowledge and skill in complex and varied work situations with limited need for direction. Additional duties may include but are not limited to:

• assisting and mentoring junior business analysts to understand and document requirements;
• testing for quality assurance (QA) in projects and applications and validating developed features against requirements;
• collaborating with developers to implement requirements, provides necessary guidance to testers during QA process;
• establishing standards for testing, user stories, use case and documentation standards for use in projects;
• leading the execution of documented test cases and ad-hoc analysis and testing of systems, coordinating testing results, and re-testing as required;
• operating across multiple projects simultaneously to address production issues and design new applications;
• partnering with and supporting the Operations, Security, and Development IT teams to ensure that overall strategic goals are achieved;
• serving as a liaison between users of…