Senior Business Data Analyst

About the role

The Senior Business Systems Analyst (BSA) position at the client supports multiple technology initiatives that advance the agency's mission of improving outcomes for Texas students, with a focus on analysis of systems and data, documentation, and modernization. This position performs advanced, senior-level business systems analysis work.

Responsibilities

The Business Systems Analyst serves as a liaison between technical teams and program areas and stakeholders to ensure that complex calculations are accurately captured and validated, and that business needs are translated into system, data, and technical requirements. The work also entails managing requirements, supporting solution design decisions, validating system behavior, and verifying that all functional, technical, data, and integration requirements are met, including enhancements following implementation.

Essential Functions

• Analyzes user needs, business processes, pain points, and computer system capabilities to automate or improve existing systems. Elicits requirements using joint application development (JAD), interviews, document analysis, surveys, use cases, competitive product analysis, and workflow analysis.
• Transforms information from elicitation sessions into business and functional requirements, use cases, user stories, software requirements specifications documents, wireframes, and mockups. Uses standard templates and simple, unambiguous, and concise natural language.
• Acts as a mentor to peers and colleagues in disseminating best practices and proactively seeks out training opportunities.
• Uses TEA tools, such as Jira and Modern Requirements, to manage the change control process, participate in the SDLC, and track and communicate requirements status.

Requirements

• 8 Years of Experience with relational database concepts to understand how data is stored and accessed by applications
• 8 years of Experience analyzing data used in system processing and reporting to identify issues and document logic
• 8 years of Experience using SQL or query tools at a basic-to-intermediate level to retrieve, validate, and reconcile data
• 8 years of Experience leading elicitation meetings and creating well-written system and technical requirements
• 8 years of Experience documenting data requirements, rules, validation logic, and data definitions for systems and reports
• 5 Years of Demonstrated strong communication and facilitation skills
• 5 years of Demonstrated strong writing and organization skills
• 5 years of Experience collaborating with developers, architects, vendors, and infrastructure teams to support SDLC
• 3 years of Experience supporting large-scale or complex information technology projects with multiple stakeholders

Preferred Skills

• 3 + years of Documented work experience with the issue tracking software "Atlassian Jira"
• 3 + years of Documented work experience with the requirements management software "Modern Requirements"
• 2 + years of Documented experience working for or closely with TEA OR a federal/state/local education agency OR ed vendor