Business Analyst

Position : Business Analyst

Location : Crownsville, MD - Onsite.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Develop the collection of a statewide inventory to include all systems, applications, cloud services, data, and artificial intelligence (AI) related applications and systems.
• Identify and document permanent and transient interconnections.
• Analyze existing system inventory documentation.
• Review and ensure the integration of all legislative, executive orders, mandated requirements, and department standards/criteria.
• Support the preparation of system/application inventory policies and procedures and related AI system guidance.
• Develop the inventory in a form that is publicly available on websites and other sources with the ability to protect certain information.
• Conduct inventory risk and impact assessments, in particular those of which utilize AI.
• Ensure systems and applications are categorized and delineated properly to support stakeholder requirements.
• Lead project meetings and preparing respective briefings and reports
• Provide weekly scope, budget, and schedule status updates on the accomplishments, milestones, tasks,roadblocks, issues, and risks related to each project.
• Engage with teams of technical resources to prioritize and deliver additional high-quality IT solutions that meet
• business needs.
• Develop project plans, roadmaps, and schedule/timelines for execution.
• Coordinate with various stakeholders and executives on program status, risks, issues, and trends.
• Develop and update project charters, scope statements, and scope management to align work efforts to
• organizational goals and objectives.
• Develop transition activities and rollout schedules during both pre- and post-implementation.
• Develop performance and quality measures/metrics and provide tracking and periodic reporting on these
• measures/metrics; create lessons learned and after actions reviews.
• Develop and implement communication strategies to improve transparency and promote awareness of
• program areas and issues.
• Develop written documentation and oral correspondence of outstanding quality.
• Integrate change management and change control practices into the program as required.
• Identify, track, manage, and reduce the impact of risks and issues.
• Manage vendor relationships to ensure high levels of quality deliverables and performance.
• Meet legal, regulatory, and policy mandates.

Education: A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or Business. A Master's Degree is preferred.

General Experience:

• The resource must have at least five years of experience as a business analyst at an organization where IT was the main product/service.
• Prior experience with eliciting and documenting business processes is required with the added ability to work within a team as well as working independently or under general direction.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Preferred Experience:
• Demonstrated knowledge of the requirements analysis and documentation requirements of the agile software development SDLC.
• Experience and certification as an Agile Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) preferred.
• Experience and certification in Six Sigma process areas.
• Demonstrated knowledge of IT software requirements elicitation, documentation, and management.
• Prior experience preparing business cases or other writing project deliverables such as a functional requirements document or a requirements traceability matrix.
• Demonstrated knowledge of business process / workflow automation.