Business Analyst (SR5230934-OTS)
Remote- United States
Overview
The Office of Technology Services (OTS) was established as a means of recognizing cost savings through the consolidation of State IT assets and resources. The creation of OTS consolidated a wide variety of existing hardware platforms, operating systems, database management systems, networks, third party software, and custom applications.
OTS leads the State’s technology procurement process in order to standardize technology over the entire organization, seek efficiencies of operations, maintenance, and scalability of new products introduced to the OTS suite of services which can eventually be offered to all in-scope agencies.
Job Description
● Use Agile methods to analyze and document business functions and requirements.
● Consult with management and personnel to identify, define and document business
functions, needs and objectives, operational procedures, problems, input and output
requirements.
● Analyze the integration of business functions with technology.
● Perform and/or facilitate business and technical analysis in support of project design and implementation for a team of application programmers.
● Identify and document relevant business processes contained in legacy application data systems.
● Build out and support the management and prioritization of the product backlog. Create user stories based on requirements and capture technical requirements as needed.
● Participates in all necessary team meetings and design sessions in accordance with Scrum ceremonies.
| Minimum/Preferred Requirements: Please submit your years of experience in each area with your application. Experience must be verified on your resume. | ||
| YearsExp | Required/Preferred | Experience |
| 3 Required | Business Analysis including eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business functions, processes, and requirements. | |
| 2 Required | Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.), writing user stories, and maintaining a healthy product backlog. | |
| 3 Required | Excellent verbal and written communication skills. | |
| 3 Required | Experience creating requirements documentation for complex projects. | |
| 3 Preferred | ●Experience setting up IT projects for a team of application programmers. ● Experience prioritizing user stories. ● Experience identifying and documenting business processes contained in legacy application data systems. ● Business Analysis certifications such as PMI-PBA or CBAP. ● Experience in quality assurance testing of application software. ● Experience in creating operating procedures, user guides, and/or training material. ● Experience with wireframe/mockup applications such as Figma to foster initial design for Webapps. | |
Note: Start Date: 05/12/2025 End Date: 06/30/2029. Hours worked will be within the State’s core hours of 7:00 AM CT to 6:00 PM CT.