Business Analyst

Company: Softworld Inc
Location: Austin
Posted on: April 6, 2025

Job Description:

Job Title: Business Analyst

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Job Location: Austin TX 78751

Onsite Requirements:

JIRA, HP ALM, Tableau, and Cognos
Texas Vital Statistics laws and procedures
Process flows, data mappings, swim lanes, and use case documentation

Job Description:

Primary Responsibilities:

Responsible for defining business solution recommendations and translating business objectives into detailed requirements to support the solution.
Adept at assimilating, integrating, and interfacing technical knowledge with business/systems requirements.
Produces functional requirements, use cases, data mappings, data dictionaries, software specifications, and systems scope documentation.
May be responsible for writing test plans, test cases, and UAT quality assurance work.
Leads teams of analysts to facilitate, document, analyze data, integrate, and train business users throughout the project development life cycle.
Conducts various types of work in varied client environments with multiple teams, including business and technical teams, and produces results.
Develops frameworks to address client problems, identifies issues and dependencies, and develops problem-solving approaches to minimize pitfalls.
Leverages business and data skills and knowledge, performs thorough, accurate analysis, and guides the team in developing recommendations.
Structures client documents and manages the writing process; writes key sections of client documents.
Partners with technical leads to facilitate systems development; understands the development process (requirements gathering, design, code, test, deploy).
Works with the development team to define a best practice model from beginning to end for the development effort.
Comfortable with ambiguity; flexible and able to be effective while managing multiple tasks and priorities.
Responsible for user facilitation, business process analysis, data analysis, requirements documentation, and testing.
Facilitates users or program staff to reach alignment; designs, conducts, and documents meetings effectively.
Analyzes and documents current business processes; translates business requirements into functional specs, defines and recommends new processes using process flows, activity diagrams, swim lanes, use cases as needed, and acts as a liaison between business users and technical developers.
Capable of documenting data dictionaries, data requirements for input forms, developing test data, and tracing functional data items back to originating data sources.
Analyzes data and trends, defines reporting KPIs and metrics, and works with technical teams to develop reports in tools such as Tableau and Cognos.
Develops test plans and assists or leads system and user acceptance testing with tools such as JIRA or HP ALM.
Capable of effectively presenting and communicating ideas to clients and leading teams to meet project goals.
Presents ideas and outcomes successfully with clients; develops effective presentation materials; can present to senior business leaders and users.
Clearly communicates with all team members; provides ongoing feedback to team members and clients.
Generates viable new ideas for business solutions; shows creative thinking, reviews the entire process for improvements.
Builds consensus and trust among team members; committed to meeting client goals; mentors others, including clients or junior staff.
Attends work on a regular and predictable schedule in accordance with agency leave policy and performs other duties as assigned.
Actively participates and/or serves in a supporting role to meet the agency's obligations for disaster response and/or recovery or Continuity of Operations (COOP) activation. Such participation may require an alternate shift pattern assignment and/or location.

Experience Requirements:

8 years Required: Knowledge of and ability to interpret Texas Vital Statistics laws, policies, procedures, and regulations.
8 years Required: Knowledge of MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio).
8 years Required: Skill in project planning and organization.
8 years Required: Skill in business analysis methodologies.
8 years Required: Skill in analyzing and evaluating complex information technology applications, policies, and issues.
8 years Required: Skill in developing creative and workable solutions to complex problems and issues.
8 years Required: Skill in communicating effectively both verbally and in writing with individuals and groups.
8 years Required: Skill in using initiative and independent judgment and managing time effectively to establish priorities, organize tasks, and assign and direct the work of others.
8 years Required: Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships, including the ability to work with people under pressure, negotiating with multiple parties, and resolving conflicts.
8 years Required: Skill in reading, interpreting, and understanding material to prepare concise reports or appropriate responses for the review and/or signature of section managers and/or directors.
8 years Required: Skill in gathering, organizing, and analyzing facts, recommending solutions, and resolving work-related problems.
8 years Required: Skill in maintaining statistical and accounting records and producing data summaries.
8 years Required: Ability to manage small to medium-sized projects when needed.
8 years Required: Ability to create project work plans.
8 years Required: Ability to produce accurate work estimates and monitor progress.

** 3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3rd party subcontractors need not apply.
This position requires candidates to be eligible to work in the United States, directly for an employer, without sponsorship now or anytime in the future.**

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