Business Analyst

Job Summary:

Client is seeking a journey level Business Analyst to work closely with the Community Development Agency to re-engineer their process workflows to create efficiencies and better serve the public. This position will work with various subject matter experts to create requirements and project documentation to support developing these features in the County permitting application, Accela.

QUALIFICATIONS AND DUTIES

• Ensure effective communication through verbal and written means with all stakeholders, including business customers, vendors, and internal resources. This is essential for facilitating team communication and achieving our mission.
• Utilize strong critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and problem-solving skills to gather, analyze, define, and document requirements. Communicate these requirements to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Translate information from elicitation sessions into business and functional requirements, use cases, user stories, and software requirements specifications documents. Use standard templates and simple, unambiguous, and concise natural language.
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of the ETL process (Extract, Transform, and Load) and proficiency in writing SQL to analyze and decompose problem statements into clearly defined requirements.
• Thoroughly validate data and test applications for business requirements, functionality, and usability with strong attention to detail.
• Possess a strong understanding of networks, databases, and other technologies such as Snowflake and Power BI dashboards. Responsible for carrying out complex analysis of datasets and conducting appropriate data validation across multiple data sources.
• Present analytic results to business and functional leaders using visualizations to effectively communicate data and metrics.
• Assist with user acceptance testing and demonstrate active listening skills.
• Ability to work on multiple projects in parallel and collaborate constructively as part of a team or teams to analyze system characteristics.
• Contribute to project coordination by assisting in project planning, scheduling, and monitoring activities. Track project milestones, deliverables, and dependencies to ensure timely completion and adherence to project scope.