Texas Education Agency · 5 hours ago
Senior Business Analyst (IT Business Analyst III)
Austin, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expThe Texas Education Agency (TEA) is focused on improving outcomes for all public-school students in Texas. The Senior Business Analyst will work on applications that support teachers and school districts, manage funding, and ensure compliance, while acting as a liaison between the program community and the software development team.
Education
Responsibilities
Eliciting, refining, and maintaining software requirements
Reviewing, assessing, and developing business processes
Providing post-implementation support of systems
Providing research and special project support to users
Assisting with user acceptance testing
Elicits requirements using joint application development (JAD), requirements workshops, interviews, document analysis, storyboards, surveys, site visits, use cases, scenarios, competitive product analysis, and task and workflow analysis
Uses sophisticated analysis techniques to identify user needs, business processes, pain points, and computer system capabilities to automate or improve existing systems
Transforms information from elicitation sessions into business requirements and functional requirements, use cases, user stories, and software requirements specifications documents. Uses standard templates and simple, unambiguous, and concise natural language
Visually transforms information from elicitation sessions into process flows, context diagrams, UML diagrams, wireframes, and mockups
Uses initiative and independent judgment to actively participate in the software development lifecycle, including managing deadlines, following change control procedures, tracking requirement status, coordinating UAT, and maintaining requirement traceability
Qualification
Required
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university
At least four (4) years of experience as a dedicated business analyst performing advanced-level work: eliciting requirements from interviews with customers, writing system requirements documents based on the interviews, leading a complete and detailed analysis of business processes is required
Each additional year of related experience above the required minimum may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis
Share the belief that all Texas students can achieve at high levels and are able to succeed in college, career, or the military
Advanced-level experience with implementing current business analysis practices for elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management
Advanced writing skills to communicate information effectively to program area customers, managers, and technical staff
Advanced-level interviewing, facilitation, and observation skills for understanding customer needs and building relationships
Analytical skills to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, and abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding
Experience with software development life cycle and systems development life cycle in complex enterprise systems
Understanding of requirements engineering according to software lifecycle methodologies in a team environment, including Agile
Experience and skill in analyzing and evaluating complex information technology programs, policies, and issues and developing workable solutions
Organizational skills to work with the vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and to cope with a rapidly changing environment
Interpersonal skills to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders
Proven experience developing use cases
Ability to work on multiple projects in parallel and work constructively as part of a team or teams to coordinate with developers and business users to analyze system characteristics
Ability to verbally communicate technical concepts to professional, non-technical clients or program areas
Preferred
Business analysis certification from industry standard organizations, such as International Institute of Business Analysis, is a plus
Company
Texas Education Agency
The Texas Education Agency provides information and guidance to public schools, educators, parents, and administrators.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Carla Steffen, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Adrienne Hunter, Ph.D.
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