Business Analyst - Austin, TX - (Only candidates located within 100 miles of Austin, TX will be considered.)

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Austin, Texas - ONSITE , Program will only accept LOCAL ONLY candidates for this position.

Type: Contract

Note: No through employer

Job Description

• 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 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.
• Strong experience as a Data Analyst in analyzing raw data, and as a Business Analyst in requirements gathering, understanding technology, and any project management experience with PMP are a huge plus.

Additional job details and special considerations

Roles and Responsibilities are Act as the critical bridge between business stakeholders and technology teams. Their core objective is to analyze current legacy system identify any inefficiencies, and translate business needs into actionable, technical solutions that improve and meets program goal.

Work with the program to document the requirements that can be shared with the vendor once vendor is selected to provide the right solutions that will meet program needs.

• Meet with stakeholders through interviews, workshops, and surveys to discover business needs.
• Documenting specifications: Translate abstract ideas into structured Business Requirement Documents (BRD and Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs).
• Process Mapping: Create use cases to visually map current vs future state.
• Scope Management: Negotiate requirement trade-offs and manage expectations regarding project timelines and costs.
• Participate in testing phase: create test cases, and ensure the final product meets original requirement.
• Stakeholder communication: Serve as the central point of contact between users, technical teams and stakeholders.

This role is needed till the end of the project to ensure the solution is implemented to the stakeholder's satisfaction.

• CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements

Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years

Required/Preferred

Experience

8

Required

Their core objective is to analyze current legacy system identify any inefficiencies, and translate business needs into actionable, technical solutions that improve and meets program goal.

8

Required

Work with the program/project teams to document the requirements and UAT.

8

Preferred

Translate abstract ideas to business requirements in a structured way.