Job Description
Applicants must submit both a résumé and a completed application to be considered. Both documents should include sufficient work history to assess qualifications.
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Job Duties:
Meet with business stakeholders and subjectmatter experts to understand business needs, problems, objectives, and desired outcomes.
Elicit, analyze, document, prioritize, and validate business and functional requirements.
Analyze current business processes, workflows, and procedures to identify gaps, inefficiencies, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
Develop and document futurestate processes, business rules, use cases, and other business analysis artifacts as appropriate.
Translate business needs into clear, complete, and actionable requirements that can be understood and implemented by technical teams.
Facilitate stakeholder discussions to resolve ambiguity, conflicting needs, assumptions, and requirements gaps and obtain agreement on proposed solutions.
Assess the business impact of proposed system or process changes, including impacts to users, processes, data, and related business functions.
Work with project managers, developers, technical staff, vendors, and business stakeholders throughout solution development to clarify requirements and address businessrelated questions.
Maintain requirements, process documentation, traceability, decisions, and other business analysis artifacts throughout the project lifecycle.
Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by developing acceptance criteria and scenarios, coordinating business users, evaluating results, and documenting business issues.
Support implementation by helping stakeholders understand and adopt new or changed processes and functionality and by confirming that business requirements have been satisfied.
You'd be a GOOD fit if:
A goodfit applicant would meet minimum qualifications and have practical experience performing business analysis and working directly with business stakeholders to understand their needs, problems, processes, and desired outcomes. The candidate should be able to independently elicit, analyze, document, and validate business and functional requirements; identify gaps or inconsistencies; document current and futurestate processes; and translate business needs into clear, understandable requirements that can be used by technical teams to develop or modify a solution. The candidate should demonstrate strong analytical, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills and be comfortable asking questions, resolving ambiguity, facilitating discussions, documenting decisions, and working with multiple stakeholders. Experience participating in system development projects, reviewing proposed solutions from a business perspective, coordinating/conducting UAT, and maintaining requirements and related documentation would provide a strong foundation for success. The candidate should understand the role of the BA as the primary bridge between the business and the delivery team, with responsibility for ensuring that the business need is accurately understood, documented, and carried through the development process.
You'd be a GREAT fit if:
A greatfit candidate would meet minimum and multiple preferred qualifications and demonstrate the ability to independently own the business analysis effort for an assigned system, process, project, or agency division, from initial discovery through implementation. Rather than simply taking notes or documenting what stakeholders request, this candidate would know how to ask probing questions, distinguish the underlying business need from a requested solution, identify gaps and conflicting requirements, challenge assumptions when appropriate, and help stakeholders reach a clear and workable definition of what is needed. They would be skilled at analyzing business processes, identifying opportunities for improvement, developing current and futurestate process models, defining functional requirements and acceptance criteria, maintaining requirements traceability, and ensuring that requirements remain accurate as the solution evolves. A great BA would also be comfortable facilitating requirements meetings, working through competing stakeholder needs, explaining requirements to technical staff, reviewing delivered functionality against business requirements, coordinating with business users during UAT, and identifying when a delivered solution does not satisfy the intended business need. Most importantly, the candidate would demonstrate business analysis judgment and ownership,the ability to take an ambiguous business problem, understand what the organization actually needs, translate that need into clear and defensible requirements, and remain engaged throughout delivery to ensure the resulting solution addresses the original business objective.
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Additional Information:
Travel
25% Position may spend 1¿5 nights away per month
Work Site Visits
No
Study Material
No
PreService Training Academy Required
No
Hazardous Duty/Longevity Position
Longevity
Outside applicants will be required to submit to preemployment drug testing as a condition of employment.
Contact Information:
Questions concerning this Questions concerning the application
position can be directed to: process can be directed to:
Roberta Poehl Kathy Chandonnet
Hiring Manager OR Human Resources
9364372239 9364374106
Roberta.Poehl@tdcj.texas.gov hr.selectionsteam3@tdcj.texas.gov
Important Note to the Candidate:
Military Preference
To receive MILITARY PREFERENCE, you are required to provide proof by attaching the necessary documentation to this job application.
Military Occupation Specialty Codes
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Eligibility
An applicant must be eligible to work in the United States and must remain eligible, without sponsorship or any assurance of financial or other assistance from this agency, during the term of their employment.
