Senior Business Analyst

ASSYST is seeking a Senior Business Analyst with public health data modernization project experience in Austin, Texas (Hybrid Role - 3days onsite, 2 days remote).

Please Note: Program will only accept LOCAL ONLY candidates for this position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Elicit, document, validate, and manage traceability for business, functional, reporting, data, security, and user-access requirements.
• Evaluate business systems and user needs, formulating systems to parallel overall business strategies.
• Document current-state and future-state workflows, perform gap analyses, and recommend new applications of technology to improve business effectiveness.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and coordinate reviews between program and technical teams.
• Write detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions, and the steps required to develop or modify computer programs.
• Develop user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Support data mapping, system testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and defect resolution.
• Prepare solution options, identify risks, and conduct financial analyses such as cost/benefit, ROI, and buy/build assessments.
• Support the Project Manager and assist in keeping the project on schedule and within budget.

Minimum Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in business analysis, including requirements elicitation, documentation, validation, and requirements traceability.
• 8+ years of experience in business process analysis, process, mapping, process re-engineering, current-state and future-state workflows, conducting gap analyses, and driving process improvements.
• 5+ years of experience serving as a liaison between the business community and customer IT teams (e.g., Architecture, Project Delivery, Application Sustain).
• Strong experience functioning as a Data Analyst analyzing raw data alongside core Business Analyst duties.
• Proven ability to rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, working independently on complicated tasks with a wide degree of creativity and latitude.

Preferred Skills:

• 5+ years of experience supporting and performing system testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect resolution, and requirements validation.
• 5+ years of business analysis experience specifically focused on data integration, data warehousing, analytics, or reporting projects.
• 3+ years of experience as a Project Manager or Project Management expereince.