IT BUSINESS ANALYST

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement
• Lead multi-agency stakeholder engagement to elicit, analyze, and document complex business requirements.
• Design and facilitate strategic workshops with senior stakeholders to align vision and priorities.
• Drive enterprise-wide change management initiatives, assessing organizational impact and developing adoption strategies.
• Conduct deep analysis of business processes to identify systemic issues and design innovative, future-ready solutions.
• Translate requirements into functional specifications, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Perform gap analysis and develop actionable roadmaps for solution design and implementation.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry best practices to recommend forward-looking solutions.
• Produce clear documentation including process flows, data flows, wireframes, and architectural diagrams.
• Establish and maintain requirements traceability across complex project lifecycles.
• Design and oversee testing strategies covering functional, regression, integration, exploratory, and performance testing.
• Lead system integration testing and coordinate UAT with senior stakeholders across agencies.
• Champion defect management frameworks and continuous improvement in agile testing practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
• At least 7 years of progressive experience in business analysis, with proven ability to manage complex initiatives.
• Experience in consulting, software development, or solution design is advantageous.
• Strong track record in Agile, product-centric environments.
• Experience with Government Technology Stack and Microsoft Azure environments.
• Advanced analytical, facilitation, and problem-solving skills, especially in discovery and prototyping.
• Expertise in requirements elicitation, documentation, and management for large-scale projects.
• Proficiency in BPMN, UML, and enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Working knowledge of AI tools and concepts.
• Advanced data analysis skills with proven impact on strategic decision-making.
• Senior-level certifications (CBAP, PMI-PBA, IIBA-AAC, or equivalent).
• Expertise in data visualization platforms (Tableau, Power BI, etc.).
• Knowledge of government systems, policies, digital services, data governance, and cybersecurity frameworks.
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies, enterprise architecture, and modern application development.
• Proven success in leading public sector digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling, k6, Locust).
• Hands-on experience with complex case management systems and enterprise-level implementations.