IDR, Inc. is seeking a Lead Business Analyst to provide day-to-day direction to staff and collaborate with both technical and non-technical teams. The role involves creating and implementing project plans, conducting business and gap analysis for the WIC MIS system, and ensuring accurate documentation of requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Develops, manages, and implements the WIC MIS requirements documentation project plan
- Coordinates all project activities, including reviewing the current MIS, translating current MIS functionality into usable system requirements, gathering and documenting business needs and system requirements, and performing a gap analysis of existing system documentation against federal, state and program requirements
- Utilizes project management methodologies to develop a plan for the creation and documentation of business requirements for the existing WIC MOSAIC system, ensuring accuracy and effective communication with leadership and relevant stakeholders
- Provides support, direction and guidance to team members in analyzing current systems and supporting documentation to develop business requirements and conducting a gap analysis of existing system functionality documentation against current documentation and program requirements
- Develops expertise and assist team members in developing expertise in the assigned application, obtain stakeholder sign-off on requirements and priorities
- Collaborates daily with team members to monitor progress, proactively identify issues, and report status
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- 10 years Business analysis experience, including requirements elicitation and documentation
- Knowledge of Project Management Framework
- Knowledge of large-scale IT operations and information technology industry trends
- Skill in defining all types of requirements, functional specifications, and other deliverables
- Skill in interpersonal relationships, ability to negotiate among multiple parties, resolve conflicts, and maintain effective working relationships with various levels of personnel
- Ability to create clear, complete, and actionable requirements documentation
- Ability to ensure accuracy in documenting system functionality and regulatory requirements
- Skill in interpersonal relationships, negotiate among multiple parties, resolve conflicts, and maintain effective working relationships with various levels of personnel
- Minimum 5 years of experience working with government regulations or compliance frameworks
- Minimum 5 years of experience in project management
- Minimum 5 years of experience leading a team or workgroup
- Skill in policy interpretation and translating regulations into system requirements
- Skill in requirements elicitation techniques such as reviewing current MIS functionality and translating into requirements
- Graduation from a four-year college or university with major coursework in business, communications, computer science, computer information systems, management information systems, or a related field
- Experience with gathering management information system requirements at a large organization
- Experience creating solicitation or contract requirements
- Preferred PMI-PBA or IIBA CBAP