Business/Data Analyst Jobs

Title: Business/Data Analyst

Location: Richmond, VA

Duration: 6+ Months

End Client: Virginia Department of Transportation

Position Details

Title- Business/Data Analyst

Location- Hybrid; 3 days per week will be onsite Richmond, Virginia (

• **local candidates ONLY due to onsite requirement

Please provide address proof and answer to the questions in "ITEMS REQUIRED AT THE TIME OF SUBMITTAL" at the time of submission.

prior state experience a STRONG plus, esp. in the Department of Transportation or similar domains. Min 10 years of Business Analyst/Data Analyst exp. REQUIRED. Candidates with Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification or Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) or Certified Data Professional (CDP) certifications will be preferred

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Responsibilities

Work as a key member of Data Management Program for data projects.

Support teams working in Agile (Sprint) within a Data Product Line delivery mechanism.

Analyzing problems; documenting business processes and data lifecycle; developing data requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria; and testing.

Handle multiple projects, and remain flexible and productive, despite changing priorities and processes.

Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and pain points

Develop expertise in the customers' datasets and data lifecycle

Profile source data; review source data and compare content and structure to dataset requirements; identify conflicts and determine recommendations for resolution Conduct entity resolution to identify matching and merging and semantic conflicts

Elicit, record, and manage metadata

Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows, context diagrams and data flow diagrams

Discover and document requirements and user stories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing

Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff

Utilize progressive elaboration; map stories to data models and architectures to be used by internal staff to facilitate master data management

Identify and group related user stories into themes, document dependencies and associated business processes

Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog

Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups

Collaborate with staff, vendors, consultants, and contractors as they are engaged on tasks to formulate, detail and test potential and implemented solutions

Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives, test plans and test cases, and executing test cases

Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress

Knowledge And Skills

Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs

Experience with reporting systems operational data stores, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts

Required Skills

10 Years - Delivering business and systems analysis artifacts such as Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)

5 Years - Experience with enterprise data management, data analysis, and data lifecycle

5 Years - Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology

Experience translating business and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories

Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development

Experience creating wireframes and prototypes (using applications such as Balsamiq)

Experience with large, multi-module systems

Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)

Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM)

Exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers

Desired Skills

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification

Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) or Certified Data Professional (CDP)

Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking

Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete

Skills

Skills Matrix

Years Used

Last Used

10 Years - Delivering business and systems analysis artifacts such as Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)

5 Years - Experience with enterprise data management, data analysis, and data lifecycle

5 Years - Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology

Experience translating business and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories

Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development

Experience creating wireframes and prototypes (using applications such as Balsamiq)

Experience with large, multi-module systems

Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)

Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM)

Exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification

Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) or Certified Data Professional (CDP)

Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking

Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete