Senior Business Analyst

3 weeks ago

Austin, Texas, United States Texas Education Agency Full time

Job Summary:

The Texas Education Agency is seeking a highly skilled Senior Business Analyst to join our team. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will work on applications that serve teachers and school districts, gather student and school data, manage funding, and provide compliance oversight for all Texas public schools.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Elicit requirements from customers and stakeholders using joint application development (JAD), requirements workshops, interviews, document analysis, storyboards, surveys, site visits, use cases, scenarios, competitive product analysis, and task and workflow analysis.
  • Analyze user needs, business processes, pain points, and computer system capabilities to automate or improve existing systems.
  • Transform information from elicitation sessions into business requirements and functional specifications.
  • Visually transform information from elicitation sessions into process flows, context diagrams, UML diagrams, wireframes, and mockups.
  • Manage work using initiative and independent judgment to actively participate in the software development lifecycle, including managing deadlines, following change control procedures, tracking requirement status, coordinating UAT, and maintaining requirement traceability.

Requirements:

  • Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university.
  • At least 5 years of experience as a dedicated business analyst.
  • Senior-level experience with implementing current business analysis practices for elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management.
  • Advanced writing skills to communicate information effectively to program area customers, managers, and technical staff.
  • Senior-level interviewing, facilitation, and observation skills for understanding customer needs and building relationships.
  • Analytical skills to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, and abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding.
  • Senior-level experience with software development life cycle and systems development life cycle concepts.
  • Understanding of requirements engineering according to software lifecycle methodologies in a team environment, including Agile.
  • Experience and skill in analyzing and evaluating complex information technology programs, policies, and issues and developing workable solutions.
  • Organizational skills to work with the vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and to cope with a rapidly changing environment.
  • Interpersonal skills to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders.
  • Proven experience developing use cases.
  • Ability to work on multiple projects in parallel and work constructively as part of a team or teams to coordinate with developers and business users to analyze system characteristics.
  • Ability to verbally communicate technical concepts to professional, non-technical clients or program areas.
  • Business analysis certification from industry standard organizations, such as International Institute of Business Analysis, is beneficial.

What We Offer:

  • A competitive salary range.
  • A comprehensive benefits package.
  • The opportunity to work on complex and challenging projects.
  • A collaborative and dynamic work environment.
  • The chance to make a meaningful impact on the education system in Texas.

How to Apply:

To be considered for this position, please submit your resume, a tailored cover letter, and short answer responses to the required questions. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

The Texas Education Agency is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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