Business Analyst 5

TekWissen LLC

Lansing, MI
2 days ago

$64.12

Highlights

Seeking a Senior Business Analyst to assist with the Agency Services Application Development and Support team who supports multiple applications for Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR), Michigan Civil Service Commission (MCSC), and Michigan Lifelong Education Advancement and Potential (MiLEAP). This is a senior position, the selected candidate must possess strong leadership skills including delegation, effective communication, effective requirement gathering, and the ability to lead meetings with stakeholders and other technical resources.

Numbers & Facts

Location	Lansing, MI
Industry	Computer/IT Services
Salary	$64.12
Company Size	100 to 499 employees
Year Founded	2009
Website	http://www.tekwissen.com/

Description

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below Client runs through fifteen executive departments which carry out the day-to-day administration of the federal government. Popular departments like Agriculture and Rural Development, Civil Rights, Environment, Health and Human Services, Natural Resources, Secretary of State. This Client has opportunities in a number of career pathways, including, but not limited to, business and administrative support, education and human services, IT and computers, medical and healthcare, natural resources, law enforcement and public safety, skilled trades and more. With positions in over 18 state departments, your perfect career fit is waiting for you at the client. This client is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Title: Business Analyst 5
Location: Lansing, MI 48933
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Shift Timings: 08:00 AM To 05:00 PM

Job Description:

Seeking a Senior Business Analyst to assist with the Agency Services Application Development and Support team who supports multiple applications for Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR), Michigan Civil Service Commission (MCSC), and Michigan Lifelong Education Advancement and Potential (MiLEAP).
This role would consist of supporting maintenance activities for applications as well as multiple larger projects with a main focus on MiLEAP. We are looking for someone who understands and has experience with the software development lifecycle as they will be managing work requests to support operational support needs for web applications and gather requirements for project initiatives.
This role is the liaison between the technical team and the business partners.
This is a senior position, the selected candidate must possess strong leadership skills including delegation, effective communication, effective requirement gathering, and the ability to lead meetings with stakeholders and other technical resources.

Tasks:

Facilitates meetings with the technical team and business client.
Gathers requirements and project specifications by leading requirement sessions independently
Manage project tasks, timelines, and communication between business product owner and development team associated with the Change Management lifecycle
Provide management with information such as project status reports and resource demand projections.
Maintain backlog of work items & track sprints and ticket progress in Azure DevOps
Ensures the team is adhering to the department change management policies
Maintains documentation on the project SharePoint Site.
Must be detail oriented and a critical thinker
Working with vendors and other stakeholders
Gather complex new application requirements for RFPs

Required Skills:

Exposure to Complex IT web Applications, within the past 5 years - Required 5+ Years
Experience working as a liaison between the development team and project manager or business client in a software development project - Required 3+Years
Experience in a role, as a business analyst, supporting a software development project, in the past 5 years - Required 3+ Years
Ability to lead meetings, conduct training & information sessions, communicate at a level appropriate to the audience, make oral and written reports and presentations - Required 3+ Years
Experience with Azure DevOps - Required 1+ Years

Highly Desired Skills:

Knowledge and understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle - Highly Desired 2+ Years
Project management skills and knowledge in project management and related methodologies - Highly Desired 6+ Months
Experience with Microsoft SharePoint - Highly Desired 2+ Years
Experience with Salesforce Platform - Highly Desired 6+ Months
Experience with MS Dynamics 365 - Highly Desired 6+ Months

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About Company

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.