Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

MBI (T2)

Job Family:

Systems Analysis

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Agile Methodology, Business Systems, System Requirements

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Senior Business Systems Analyst supporting the United States Postal Service. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Senior Business Systems Analyst, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Senior Business Systems Analyst capable of working both independently and leading a team of programmers/developers/testers. They will need to be capable of working directly with business customers to develop their requirements and develop application designs that are within postal standards. This includes reviewing legacy applications and reverse engineering them to extract the business functionality and edit and develop specifications for enhanced business functionality into a new robust application design.

HOW A SENIOR BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

· Analyzes and evaluates complex IT systems both current and proposed, translating business area customer information systems requirements into design requirements

· Plans, estimates, conducts, and supervises assignments generally involving large projects

· Provides alternatives, recommendations, and assistance to Management involved in the development, integration, and installation of new products.

· Provides detailed functional specifications

· Provides Project Planning

· May coordinate the systems installation with the Client’s organization

· Performs logical database design and reviews physical database modeling

· Assists with Software Quality Assurance

· Assists with Requirements Management

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education:

· Bachelor's degree in a Computer Science or related technical discipline is preferred, but not required.

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Required Experience:

· 10+ years of experience with analyzing business requirements and developing business requirements.

Required Skills & Abilities:

· Strong business analysis skills

· Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

· Ability to adjust well in constantly changing environments.

· Stays calm and composed under stress.

· Effective at building strong business relationships across teams to ensure a positive customer experience and quality of software projects into Production.

· Strong written and verbal communication skills and proven ability to effectively work directly with customers, the executive leadership team, and technical staff.

· Effective liaison between business and technical teams.

· Strong facilitation skills to effectively lead discussions across multiple groups.

· Strong ability to guide development team activities from requirements to implementation in all aspects of a software development lifecycle with little supervision.

· Perform analysis to support the development and validation of requirements.

· Able to effectively translate business requirements/needs into detailed software requirements and support tasks utilizing Agile methodologies and setup of work management tools (like VersionOne).

· Able to communicate technical information to others, expressing facts or ideas clearly, orally or in writing, when answering questions, giving directions, and providing information, individually or in groups

· Microsoft Office with strong skills in PowerPoint, Project, and Excel

· Working knowledge of the following:

· Change Management and Configuration Management (ServiceNow, etc.)

· VersionOne tool to setup and track projects utilizing Agile methodologies

· Ability to assist with the development of simple to complex project plans utilizing Agile methodologies

· Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

· Knowledge/experience with SDLC practices

· Technical writing

· IT documentation

Security Clearance Level:

· Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completi