DHCF DCAS - Business Analyst - Curam

Collaboredge Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Collaboredge Inc. in Washington, DC, seeks an experienced Business Analyst (Curam) to define system scope and objectives from user needs and industry requirements. You will gather requirements, drive workshops, and translate business needs into detailed specifications for DCAS projects.

Excellent oral, written and presentation skills are mandatory, with strong SDLC and data analysis experience. This onsite role requires DMV-area residency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience; PMP not required but preferred.
• 16+ years BA experience with SDLC and requirements documentation.
• Strong communication and writing skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with Curam software and data dictionaries is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Formulates and defines systems scope and objectives based on user needs and industry requirements.
• Devise or modify procedures to solve complex problems, document requirements, and translate into system specs.
• Provide consultation on complex projects, drive functional design sessions, and support DCAS initiatives.

Skills

BA experience

SDLC experience

Requirements gathering

MS Office/PowerPoint

Documentation experience

Communication skills

Curam data dictionary

SDLC experience

Functional design sessions

Project management methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

PMP Certification

Tools

MS Office

MS Project

Visio

Curam software

Job description

Short Description:

This position is onsite, only candidates local to the DMV will be considered

Complete Description:

Formulates and defines systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and a thorough understanding of business systems and industry requirements. The contractor shall be customer service oriented, have strong team and interpersonal skills, and ability to multi‑task when required. Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills are a mandatory requirement. As a Business Analyst (Curam), you will be responsible for assessing current challenges, partnering with leadership to help develop strategic plans and initiatives to address priorities, identifying change opportunities and recommending supporting initiatives, planning and leading workshops for gap analysis and training sessions. The Analyst will be required to analyze, validate and support implementation of requirements for DCAS projects from inception to conclusion. Evaluate current processes and recommend areas for improvement, optimization, development and or maintenance through analyzing system performance, known system issues, existing documentation, and supporting technology related to business processes. The incumbent will become an integral part of the DCAS Team, making every problem associated to the platform a problem of their own and will demonstrate the required initiative and critical thinking abilities necessary to resolve all problems and challenges accordingly.

Behavior Characteristics

• Adaptable
• Analytical
• Goal-Orientated/Driven/Self-Starter

Responsibilities:

• Formulates and defines systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and a thorough understanding of business systems and industry requirements.
• Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operation time, and form of desired results. Includes analysis of business and user needs, documentation of requirements, and translation into proper system requirements specifications.
• Provides consultation on complex projects and is considered to be the top level contributor/specialist of most phases of systems analysis, while considering the business implications of the application of technology to the current and future business environment.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements :

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience; or a current Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Candidate Skills Matrix:

Following sections are to be filled by the candidate:

• 16+ yrs. BA experience| Required | 16 |
• 16+ yrs. Software Development Lifecycle experience| Required | 16 |
• 16+ yrs. requirements gathering and documentation| Required | 16 |
• 16+ yrs. MS Office/PowerPoint experience| Required | 16 |
• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience| Required | |
• Working knowledge of writing functional, technical and performance requirements in software development environment.| Required | 5 |
• Possess excellent communication and writing skills.| Required | 5 |
• Experience with Data Analysis Tools and Technologies, such as IBM Knowledge Center Bus Analysis Guide; Curam Data Dictionary.| Required | 5 |
• Possess hands on Systems/Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience.| Required | 16 |
• Experience in producing deliverable quality documents.| Required | 4 |
• Professional experience with MS Office applications, MS Project and Visio.| Required | 6 |
• Professional exp. With Curam software V6 or higher. Required 3 Years| Required | 3 |
• PM experience in Change and Release management disciplines related to testing, updating and integrating hardware and software technologies.| Nice to have | 2 |
• Experience working with Microstrategy, HP Exstream, Tableau, Curam, JIRA and Salesforce.| Nice to have | 2 |
• Proven experience with driving functional design sessions.| Required | 4 |
• Proven experience with project management methodologies| Required | 4 |

Background check:

• Extensive criminal history background check will be required. We cannot submit candidates with recent histories (go back seven years) of extensive driving, drug, robbery or any other illegal activity. Any criminal activity on the background check will eliminate the candidate from consideration. If selected, please make certain that you inform all candidates that they will have to complete this criminal background check prior to starting. NATIONAL background checks are required; Federal background checks are NOT compliant under this contract. A national background check is a national criminal background check that pulls criminal records from State and County Courts in almost every US State.