Business Analyst

Our client, a Florida government department, is seeking a Business Analyst. This important position will perform detailed requirements analysis, document processes, and perform user acceptance testing. This is a contract position and is full-time in office in Tallahassee, Florida.

Responsibilities

• Understand business change needs, assessing the business impact of those changes, capturing, analyzing, and documenting requirements and supporting the communication and delivery of requirements with relevant stakeholders.
• Lead requirements definitions meetings with DEP customers.
• Analyze data gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.
• Gather, analyze, document & validate user requirements.
• Create Visio process maps, requirements traceability matrices, use cases and other business analysis documentation appropriate to the specifically assigned project needs.
• Facilitate the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders.
• Create, analyze, and validate detailed functional specifications.
• Facilitate design sessions with the implementation team to define the solution.
• Deliver elements of systems design, including data migration rules, business rules, wireframes, or other detailed deliverables.
• Identify any new type of data entry components required. For each new component identified, create and update analysis documentation to include wireframes, process maps, business data definitions and business rules.
• Support multiple moderately complex business processes.
• Assist in the business process redesign and documentation as needed.
• Translate high level business requirements into functional specifications and manage changes to such specifications.
• Work closely with customers, users, and team members to understand business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions
  
  

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to effectively communicate with both technical and business resources and translate business needs into effective technical specifications
• Ability to conduct research into application development issues and products.
• Ability to understand the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to prepare reports, correspondence, guidelines, and Power Point presentations.
• Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to write technical, business, and plain language documents and/or emails, with great attention to detail in all written communications.
• Ability to work on multiple projects as a project team member, occasionally as a project leader.
  
  

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other Information Technology major, or equivalent work experience.

Spruce Technology, Inc. is a mid-size, award-winning (Inc 5000, SmartCEO, Entrepreneur of the Year) technology services firm with a steadily growing portfolio of commercial and government clients. Spruce provides innovative technology solutions, specialized IT staff, and IT strategy consulting nationwide. Spruce maintains partnerships with major technology vendors and continually develops leading-edge offerings in service areas such as digital experience, data services, application development, infrastructure, cyber security, and IT staffing.

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