Job ID: MNSITE 3324 (90090210)
Hybrid/Local Business/Systems/Data Analyst (CBAP) with Agile, data mapping/migration, story writing, backlog management experience
Location: St Paul, MN (DPS)
Duration: 24 Months
Sample Tasks
• Perform analysis, elicit, and document requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, process analysis, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task, and workflow analysis.
• Document requirements and stories according to standard templates, using natural, simple, and concise language. Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models, prototypes, scenarios, etc.
• Conduct data analysis, data mapping activities, and documentation of data needs
• Analyze and document user workflows and create/define new workflows and processes.
• Decompose high-level business and user needs into functional requirements, epics, and user stories, with an appropriate level of detail.
• Work with product owners to align with priorities and build product backlog with epics and refined stories for the development team.
• Create user story maps, write user stories with acceptance criteria, and align with the development team at Scrum events.
• Conduct refinement sessions at various levels for scrum teams in preparation for story pointing and sprint planning.
• Plan and facilitate project discovery sessions.
• Identify the current and future state business processes; define quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements.
• Coordinate business validation to verify end-to-end business processes function as intended.
• Participate in peer reviews and inspections of user story maps, epics, user stories, requirements documents, and work products derived from those artifacts to ensure that the requirements were interpreted correctly.
• Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project.
• Provide knowledge transfer
Qualifications
• Seven years’ experience in an IT Business/Systems Analyst role
• Three years’ experience working as an IT Analyst on Agile project/product teams
• Expert in analyzing, defining and documenting requirements for IT applications, relational databases, queries, interfaces, extracts, reports, and dashboards.
• Extensive experience leading the design and implementation for complex, application development projects in a fast-paced environment involving multiple stakeholders and IT functions.
• Excellent problem-solving skills in including, research, alternatives analysis, applying creative solutions, and implementation.
• Experience with data migration and data mapping activities and working with data analysis tools.
• Excellent communication and facilitations skills, with an ability to present complex information to a variety of stakeholder groups.
• Ability to collaborate, work effectively as part of a team, and maintain positive working relationships.
• Ability to prioritize effectively across multiple in-flight initiatives.
• Experience with backlog management, story writing, and story refinement.
• Experience working with Agile work management tools such as JIRA.
• Business Analyst Certification