Business Analyst 3Austin, TX (Remote within Texas)10 months contract with possibility to extensionOnly for TX candidatesThe candidate will perform highly advanced product management, requirement gathering, and documentation as part of a project team with direction and guidance from the Project Management Office and Applications Services Management. The candidate must have a strong comprehension of what the customer is trying to achieve and develop a pipeline to translate that information to create the prioritized product backlog for the development team using an Agile/Scrum methodology. This position entails a candidate who is very organized and possesses analytical thinking with strong communication skills as they will need to see through the eyes of the customer, helping them extract functional requirements using industry-leading business process mapping and reengineering methodologies that facilitate a clean, well-organized backlog that translates well to a development team leading to the delivery of successful projects.
The worker's primary goal will be to drive the customer's product vision into reality with the help of the project team.Candidate skills and qualifications:8 years required experience with serving as a liaison between the business community and IT teams.8 years required experience reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating business processes and systems and user needs.8 years required experience with application development as an agile/scrum product owner/business analyst8 years required experience with customer focused user experience design5 years required experience with Agile development experience with Scrum, Kanban5 years required experience with writing acceptance criteria-based user stories5 years required experience with analytical thought process to aid with prioritization and negotiation5 years required experience with highly complex application security requirements5 years required experience with organizing user acceptance testing per sprint and end to end4 years required experience with story mapping4 years required experience with business process mapping4 years required experience with Atlassian Jira4 years required experience with completing system documentation3 years required proficient with the Microsoft Office products, including Outlook, Project, and Visio3 years required proficient with common collaboration products such as Microsoft Teams & SharePoint, Cisco WebEx, and Atlassian Confluence5 years preferred experience working with enterprise software solutions as a developer3 years preferred experience working with enterprise architectural design3 years preferred experience in establishing, documenting, and communicating standards, best practices, fixes, and providing system direction & recommendation3 years preferred Certified Salesforce Business Analyst2 years preferred public sector experience (Federal, State or Local Government)2 years preferred Salesforce Requirements Gathering experience2 years preferred experience with 508 Compliance/Web Accessibility2 years preferred experience with Information Security Office Compliance2 years preferred experience with department, company, or agency agile transformation1 year preferred experience with Service Now ticketing and workflow automation platforms1 year preferred Salesforce Admin, App Builder Certified1 year preferred Salesforce Trailhead Ranger Status1 year preferred Salesforce Trailhead Super badges1 year preferred experience using Salesforce Grants Manager1 year preferred Salesforce Admin certification