Title: IT Business Analyst

Citizenship Requirements: US Citizen Preferred, H1 or Green Card of 3+ Years permitted with discussion, No C2C

Client Description:

Our great client is a prime contract holder who has supported the USDA for over 20 years. We were recently granted a $14.5 Million dollar five year program. We are supporting the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is the foreign affairs agency with primary responsibility for the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) overseas programs – market development, international trade agreements and negotiations, and the collection of statistics and market information.

Job Description:

We are looking for an IT Business Analyst to join our awesome team of IT professionals who are building large distributed systems and delivering streamlined user experiences. We want team members who strive to develop first-class applications, embrace change and innovation and work well within a matrixed team environment. We emphasize knowledge sharing and expect all our technical team members to actively contribute to solutioning, architecture and brown bag sessions. As an IT Business Analyst, you will be the primary liaison to both the developers and the business clients. 

IT Business Analyst duties and responsibilities:

• Defines and documents customer business functions and processes.
• Develop and flawlessly execute reporting and process design through coordination with the Project Management.
• Serve as Scrum Master for agile sprints.
• Develop and perform ongoing improvements to reporting packages effectiveness that include scope and objectives, identify and understand needs of clients and stakeholders, and assess the technical feasibility.
• Ensure continuous improvement, meaningful trend analysis and action planning while minimizing waste and inefficiency.
• Build strong working relationships with clients, stakeholders, vendors and team members through effective communication throughout client life-cycle.
• Consults with functional unit management and personnel to identify, define and document business needs and objectives, current operational procedures, problems, input and output requirements, and levels of systems access.
• Plans, organizes and conducts business process re-engineering/improvement projects and/or management reviews thorough gap analysis and develop multiple solutions for identified gaps.
• Develop techniques and standardization that will ensure repeatable results, enhance contract effectiveness, client satisfaction, and overall cost efficiency.
• Utilize deductive reasoning skills to anticipate internal and external client needs.
• Proficient in MS Office, Visio.
• Monitor daily operations and enhance processes to maximize team efficiency.
• Troubleshoot technical issues and serve as technical liaison between front-line deficiencies and application support teams, internally and externally.
  
  

  Special consideration will be given to individual who have the additional skill sets:

• Scrum Master Certification.