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Position Description from KS Template:
- Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs. Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies.
- Experienced with business process reengineering and identifying new applications of technology to business problems to make business more effective.
- Familiar with industry standard (including Legacy, Core, and Emerging technologies), business process mapping, and reengineering. Prepares solution options, risk identification, and financial analyses such as cost/benefit, ROI, buy/build, etc. Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs.
- Prepare and document Functional and Technical Specifications for Statements of Work. Develops RFPs.
- Document and provide knowledge transfer to the rest of the Enterprise Reporting Team for all solutions.
- Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs. Has knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Familiar with relational database concepts, and client-server concepts.
Expected Tasks for this engagement in addition to the above:
- Elicit and document project scope and plans from business and technical groups
- Work within and across matrixed teams to produce high-quality business and technical requirements documentation that meets applicable State of Michigan standards for inclusion into a Statement of Work and Request for Proposals
- Edit, standardize, or make changes to documents
- Develop Epics, User Stories, and other required artifacts in Microsoft Azure DevOps
- Participate in Joint Evaluation Committees to evaluate vendor proposals
- Reviews complex solutions, strategies and creates themes that are easily understandable, readable, and compelling.
- Coordinates with project manager, technical and business staff to develop, research, track, and follow-up on work activities.
- Provides weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc reporting on RFP processes and status
- Participate in the continuing quality improvement initiatives
- Participate in peer editing and production review
- Identifies key responses and criteria across historical RFP documentation and maintains a library of RFP responses toward increasing automation and efficiency in future RFP responses.
- Additional duties as assigned
Knowledge and Experience:
Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Computer Science
Required: 8+ years’ experience gathering and documenting business and technical requirements for large IT solution development efforts.
Required: 3+ years’ Business Analyst experience working in an environment using Agile methods and tools.
Required: 2+ years’ experience developing procurement documents such as Statements of Work (SOWs) and Requests for Proposals (RFPs).
Highly Preferred: 5+ years’ experience evaluating vendor developed IT Solution proposals based on RFPs, SOWs and other vendor provided inputs while participating in Joint Evaluation Committees (JECs)
Highly Preferred: 5+ years’ experience working in a large governmental environment focused on IT development and acquisition projects.
Preferred: 2+ years’ BA experience working with Human Services business partners such as a Child Support area.
Preferred: Certificate such as Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or PMI Professional Business Analyst (PMI-PBA)