Business Analyst #1029437
Job Description:
Seeking a Senior Business Analyst to assist with the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) Grants Management System known as NexSys. The MDE Grants Management System is comprised of about 100+ different grant applications that is responsible for over 2 billion dollars of payments to state educational entities.
 
Business Analyst:
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 client. This will be about 90% of the time for this resource. This is a senior position so the selected candidate will possess leadership skills including but not limited to the ability to delegate tasks to the team, effective communication and being able to lead a team of business analysts and be comfortable leading requirement meetings with business and other technical resources.
 
Tasks:

• Facilitates meetings with the technical team and business client.
• Gathers requirements and project specifications by leading requirement sessions independently
• Maintain backlog of work items in Azure DevOps
• Must operate in a hybrid (Agile/Waterfall) environment and actively manage requirements, change requests and testing needs.
• Manage project tasks, timelines, and communication between business product owner and development team associated with the Change Management lifecycle
• Track sprints and ticket progress in Azure DevOps
• Ensures the team is adhering to the department change management policies
• Acts as a liaison with our auditors
• Maintains documentation on the project SharePoint Site.
• Must be self-starter, detail oriented and a critical thinker
• Provide management with information such as project status reports and resource demand projections.
• Work with team, management, and business partners to continuously improve the process.

 
Skill - Required / Desired - Required Years of experience:

• Exposure to Complex IT web Applications within the past 5 years- Required- 5 Years
• Experience in gathering and documenting business requirements- Required- 5 Years
• Experience in a role, as a business analyst, supporting a software development project, in the past 5 years- Required- 5 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 5 Years
• Proficiency with MS Office -Required 3 Years
• Experience working as a liaison between the development team and project manager or business client in a software development project – Required 2 Years
• Experience with Azure DevOps; including creating User Stories and queries – Required 1 Year
• Knowledge and understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle - Highly Desired 2 Years
• Experience developing wireframes, mockups, & prototypes in Figma or comparable design software - Highly Desired 1 Year
• Project management skills and knowledge in project management and related methodologies - Highly Desired 6 Months
• Experience with Microsoft SharePoint - Highly Desired 6 Months
• Experience with Power Platform services including Power BI and Power Automate - Highly Desired 6 Months

 
Additional Info:
 
At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra.  We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.
We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!
FastTek Global is a financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.
We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.
Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:
 

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

 
Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.
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