Business Analyst
Job Summary:
The Business Analyst plays a pivotal role in defining business solutions and translating organizational objectives into actionable technical requirements. Reporting to the Director of Administration, this role is responsible for eliciting, documenting, and analyzing business processes and data needs, while partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that align with business strategy. The ideal candidate is analytical, collaborative, and comfortable managing ambiguity while leading multiple priorities and teams.
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, document, and analyze business requirements, processes, and data across various domains.
• Translate business objectives into functional specifications, use cases, test cases, data dictionaries, and software/system documentation.
• Develop test plans and support/lead system and user acceptance testing (UAT) using tools like JIRA and HP ALM.
• Facilitate user workshops, requirements sessions, and JAD/JRP meetings to drive project alignment and solution design.
• Analyze and document current vs. future state business processes using diagrams, process flows, and models.
• Act as liaison between business users and technical teams, ensuring clear understanding of needs and technical feasibility.
• Lead or support cross-functional teams through project lifecycles, including planning, development, and implementation phases.
• Analyze trends and data to define reporting KPIs and work with technical teams to build dashboards and reports in tools such as Tableau and Cognos.
• Provide mentorship to junior staff and stakeholders, building consensus and ensuring knowledge transfer.
• Maintain regulatory and legal compliance with Texas Vital Statistics laws and agency policies.
• Support disaster recovery, COOP activation, and other agency-wide obligations when required.
Job Summary:
The Business Analyst plays a pivotal role in defining business solutions and translating organizational objectives into actionable technical requirements. Reporting to the Director of Administration, this role is responsible for eliciting, documenting, and analyzing business processes and data needs, while partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions that align with business strategy. The ideal candidate is analytical, collaborative, and comfortable managing ambiguity while leading multiple priorities and teams.
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, document, and analyze business requirements, processes, and data across various domains.
• Translate business objectives into functional specifications, use cases, test cases, data dictionaries, and software/system documentation.
• Develop test plans and support/lead system and user acceptance testing (UAT) using tools like JIRA and HP ALM.
• Facilitate user workshops, requirements sessions, and JAD/JRP meetings to drive project alignment and solution design.
• Analyze and document current vs. future state business processes using diagrams, process flows, and models.
• Act as liaison between business users and technical teams, ensuring clear understanding of needs and technical feasibility.
• Lead or support cross-functional teams through project lifecycles, including planning, development, and implementation phases.
• Analyze trends and data to define reporting KPIs and work with technical teams to build dashboards and reports in tools such as Tableau and Cognos.
• Provide mentorship to junior staff and stakeholders, building consensus and ensuring knowledge transfer.
• Maintain regulatory and legal compliance with Texas Vital Statistics laws and agency policies.
• Support disaster recovery, COOP activation, and other agency-wide obligations when required.
