Business Analyst

Job Requirements:
• Gather and document business requirements for internal/external products/projects.
• Facilitate requirements gathering/meetings with clients to gather requirements (traditional waterfall and agile) for all IT solutions and to identify impacted business processes and determine best process and IT solution integration.
• May review and advise on design solutions developed by others.
• Differentiate between defects and new requirements and initiate change requests as necessary.
• pproves application-wide integration, performance, system or user acceptance test plans.
• Work with the solutions architect to set up guidelines/processes on code review.
• Manage defect tracking for large scale systems implementation.
• Serves as Agency Services liaison to outside consultants.
• Serve as a liaison between DTMB and the client concerning application requests, standards, and other program and project matters.

Detailed skills required:
• 10 years of experience directing the analysis, definition, and documenting of system and business requirements with clients, for large scale systems. Business process design and re-engineering. Communication and translating requirements between the business and technical teams.
• 10 years of experience developing large scale software systems, using agile methodology and frameworks. Ability to write user stories to support Agile development. Collection of stories and other requirements are recorded in Atlassian JIRA and Confluence.
• 10 years of experience to facilitate, capture, organize and document business requirements from all stakeholders, including business-side employees, product owners, and technical resources. Requirement's analysis and the ability to decipher what is said to what is really wanted or needed.
• 10 years of experience developing technical designs in consultation with application/solution architects to set direction of design and development for large application development projects. Review technical design and specification for completeness and conformance to quality standards, especially as a mentor to less experienced business analysts. Also experience in the use of responsive design application development with a focus on human centric designs.

Position Description
As a Senior IT Business Analyst, the employee performs a complete range of information system analyst assignments including, but not limited to, designing, developing, testing, and implementing computer systems and applications for Michigan State Police (MSP) applications. This individual will be looked upon to provide technical support to other team members and evaluate new development tools and agency systems. Senior IT Business Analyst will evaluate, document, and inform DTMB management and supported client agency of impact and risks, including disaster recovery planning, to existing IT solutions due to proposed legislation, enhancement requests, or changes in governmental processes or procedures. Actively participate in the development and implementation of assigned client agency's IT strategic direction/plan. Mentors other DTMB staff to resolve client agency IT issues.

General Summary 60% of time
The primary duty of this position is to act as a liaison among technical and business stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to information systems, business processes, and policies, as applicable. Collaborating with both the Information Technology (IT) project teams and business clients, this position collects, clarifies, and translates business requirements into design documentation, from which applications and solutions are developed.

Individual tasks related to the duty:
• Ensure project alignment with DTMB Strategic Plans.
• Develop Statements of Work (SOW) and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Requests for Proposals (RFP).
• Provide content approval and validate estimates for the entire schedule of the project for the Project Manager to ensure compliance with the SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) and the Systems Engineering Methodology (SEM).
• Facilitate requirements gathering/meetings with clients to gather requirements (traditional waterfall and agile) for all IT solutions and to identify impacted business processes and determine best process and IT solution integration.
• Redesign and approve program specifications based on test results.
• Lead artifact reviews with peers, system specialists, Enterprise Security and other DTMB entities to ensure IT solutions and applications adhere to DTMB and agency policies, standards or guidelines.
• Coordinate security resources to ensure proper system design based on DTMB and Agency security requirements and standards.
• Participate in Solutions Design Team meetings and assist in creation of the Enterprise Architecture Solution Assessment (EASA), Infrastructure Service Request (ISR), Hosting documents and Firewall Rule requests.
• Design and document IT solutions that utilize State of Michigan standard technology.
• Ensure proper change management for all requested fixes to production systems.
• Ensure proper change management for all requested changes to system designs and system architecture standards are documented.
• pproves application-wide integration, performance, system or user acceptance test plans.
• Differentiate between defects and new requirements and initiate change requests as necessary.
• Evaluate impact of new development tools, languages, upgrades and equipment on agency systems and make recommendation to DTMB and/or agency clients. Leads assigned task forces, special committees, and/or research groups.
• Monitors long term IT solution traits and break fix patterns and recommends IT solutions to alleviate persistent problems.
• Review and approve project management documents.
• Serves as Agency Services liaison to outside consultants.
• Serve as a liaison between DTMB and the client concerning application requests, standards, and other program and project matters.
• Takes lead role in audit investigation, security reviews and risk assessment document creation.
• Serve as liaison between DTMB and client concerning ICE audits.
• Perform disaster recovery planning and implementation.
• Evaluate and inform DTMB management and supported client agency of impact and risks to existing IT solutions due to proposed legislation, enhancement requests, changes in governmental processes or procedures

Maintains records and prepares reports and correspondence related to the work 40%
Individual tasks related to the duty:
• Provide input to the creation and modification of procedures.
• Contribute ideas on continuous improvement of IT processes.
• ttend training as required and/or research opportunities for free or low-cost training.
• Perform demonstrations, web research, activities that increase the knowledge of this position and/or of other team members.
• ttend staff meetings.
• Lead task forces, special committee meetings, and/or research groups.
• ll other tasks necessary and proper for a resource in this type of role
• Perform additional duties as assigned.