DevOps Business Analyst

At Lifescale Analytics, we help achieve data driven decisions by leveraging strategic technologies to create innovative solutions, that ultimately help our clients to navigate their ever-changing data landscape. We have an opportunity for an DevOps Business Analyst. This role will be an Onsite Role, in Tallahassee, FL. Travel and relocation expenses will not be covered by the client or employer. The advanced business analyst will be a member of the full lifecycle agile development team. They will be expected to work across multiple business units to perform business and systems analysis activities and tasks. They will provide oversight for development team activities. They will work directly with subject matter experts (SME) and other stakeholders to ensure requirements are thoroughly documented, tested, and achieved. They will be involved, and work in concert with other team members, to analyze, design, implement, and test solutions.

Applicants responding to this position must be a US Citizen and will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements by currently possessing the ability to view classified government information. Must have lived in the US for the past 5 years.

The Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.

Primary Job Duties/ Tasks:

• The activities the candidates will be tasked with include, but are not limited to the following:
• Research and understand client’s business processes and their inter-relationships.
• Facilitate joint analysis workshops with the business units.
• Gather and document business and technical requirements.
• Coordinate and lead the activities of the development team in partnership with the Project Manager and Architects.
• Development of requirements documentation such as Use Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrices, Test Plans, etc.
• Coordinate and oversee the User Acceptance Testing and Regression Testing.
• Track bugs and backlog items using Microsoft DevOps.
• Provide at least weekly updates to the Project Management Team.
• Perform oversight reviews of deliverables for compliance with department standards.
• Create Visio process maps, requirements traceability matrices, use cases and other business analysis documentation appropriate to the specifically assigned project needs.

Experience:

• A minimum of 3 to 5 years of solid business/systems analysis experience and software development projects is required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, required.
• Proficiency in gathering and converting Business Requirements into Use Cases, Process Diagrams, Test Cases, and other analytical documents is required.
• Proven ability to collaborate directly with the development team for swift and clear comprehension of Business Requirements and bug identification is required.
• Experience with Microsoft DevOps is required.
• Knowledge of Rules 60GG-1 – 60GG-5, Florida Administrative Code, is highly desired.
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (BAP) or Certified Scrum Master (SCM) is highly desired.
• Experience with directing and managing project resources is highly desired.
• Knowledge of change and release management is highly desired.
• Experience with Microsoft Power BI is highly desired.

Job Specific Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs):

• The submitted candidates must be able to apply specific knowledge, skills, and abilities in the following areas:
• Business Analysis: Ability to perform detailed research, business analysis, as-is and to-be analysis, process modeling. Use of software tools is required and include, but are not limited to, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, and SmartDraw.
• System Analysis & Design: Ability to perform System Analysis & Design using a variety of modeling methodologies and techniques.
• Facilitation: Ability to expertly facilitate workshops and meetings with stakeholders.
• Technical Understanding: Technical knowledge and understanding of IT infrastructure and software development practices and techniques.

Additional:

• Advanced skills with Microsoft products: SharePoint, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
• Ability to relate to stakeholders’ needs, document their requirements, and perform duties in the absence of staff.
• Ability to receive and give constructive criticism and maintain effective work relationships with others.
• Ability to adjust to changing demands in a dynamic environment with diverse work assignments.

General Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs):

The submitted candidate must be able to apply common knowledge, skills, and abilities in the following areas:

1. Initiative: Must be able to comprehend assignments, organize workload, and meet deadlines with little direction. Must be able to monitor and analyze situations to determine the next step.
2. Communication: Can clearly convey information, in both written and verbal formats, to individuals or groups in a wide variety of settings (i.e., project team meetings, management presentations, etc.). Must have the ability to effectively listen and process information provided by others.
3. Customer Service: Works well with clients and customers (i.e., business office, public, or other agencies). Able to assess the needs of the customer, provide information or assistance to satisfy expectations or resolve a problem.
4. Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions utilizing critical thinking skills and analysis.
5. Flexibility: is open to change, new processes (or process improvement), and new information. Can adapt in response to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles. Ability to receive and give constructive criticism and maintain effective work relationships with others.
6. Interpersonal: Shows friendliness, courtesy, understanding, and politeness to others.
7. Leadership: Motivates, encourages, and challenges others. Can adapt leadership styles in a variety of situations.
8. Problem Solving: Able to identify, evaluate, and use sound judgement to generate and evaluate alternative actions, and make recommendations accordingly.
9. Team Building: Encourages, inspires, and guides others toward accomplishing the common goal as an equal member of the team.
10. Quality Assurance: Knowledge of the ideologies, techniques and tools for quality assurance and control. The ability to put the ideologies, techniques, and tools into practice.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Communications, Information Systems, or other related field is required. Equivalent work experience may substitute for the educational requirement.

Who we are:

Lifescale Analytics, a small business that provides specialized expertise in data and analytics. Formed in 2012, the Lifescale Analytics team has years of experience providing a spectrum of customized data management services and solutions including Data Management/Analytics, Big Data Solutions, Cloud Services, Business Intelligence and Data Science that focuses on building strong portfolios and programs. Through experience and innovation, we allow businesses, pharmaceutical companies, financial institutions, and government agencies to manage and proactively make decisions based on their biggest asset, their data. Our specialists are skilled at managing, refining, analyzing, or visualizing information for the specific purpose of increasing the value of IT to benefit from the data science industry.

For more information, please visit our website at www.lifescaleanalytics.com