Job Overview

The primary function of the Business Analyst is to work with project stakeholders to identify and prioritize system requirements, identify the solution goal, and the series of individual steps that explain an end user's interaction with the system.  The Business Analyst might also create a graphic model, mathematical equations, or a storyboard to record system requirements. The Business Analyst communicates with project stakeholders and the development team regarding test results and changes to the end-product requirements.  On this team, the Business Analyst will work with the Scrum methodology to ensure the sprints deliver the requirements as expected by the stakeholder. 

Roles and Responsibilities

The following information is intended to describe the overall nature and scope of the work being performed. This is not a comprehensive listing of all responsibilities or tasks; work may differ and other work may be assigned when deemed appropriate.

• Schedules and conducts meetings with product owners, subject matter experts, and other business partners to understand current and future state business processes, pain points, and product vision; proactively communicates business knowledge to the development team.
• Creates, manages, and maintains internal documentation and external deliverables across the life of the project; documentation should fully cover the business domain and may include vision documents, business process and system flows, business rules and logic, user personas, PowerPoint decks, project management, and status report documents.
• Conducts necessary research and analysis to verify that the appropriate information and context is available for the development team during requirements sessions.
• Supports the forward movement of the project management process through team and cross-functional meetings, including but not limited to daily Scrum, sprint planning, requirements reviews, application demos, and business partner engagement.
• Manages a regular cadence for story definition, story writing, story review, and story prioritization to maintain a well-defined and prioritized backlog of sufficient length to support the team's velocity.
• Assists in the creation and revision of stories to support web application development; identifies story dependencies to help facilitate backlog refinement and prioritization and ensures stories are written at the appropriate level and size to allow the team to deliver value at the end of each sprint.
• Works closely with project management to ensure that the product roadmap is kept up-to-date and reflects any changes in business priority.

Qualifications

Below are the minimum qualifications for this job. Equivalent combinations of education and experience are also acceptable.

     Education

     Associate’s degree

     Experience

     Experience with business analysis, databases, software, technology solutions, computer information science, data science, or applied mathematics

     Licenses and Certifications

     Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work independently
• Self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Good interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills; able to gather, define, and articulate user requirements to developer team
• Knowledge of software development, Scrum/Agile methodologies, and visual design

Physical Requirements and Environmental Hazards

The following provides an overview of typical physical requirements and environmental hazards for this job:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly talking, expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. The employee must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. The employee must possess normal cognitive abilities including the ability to learn, recall and apply certain practices and policies. Frequently sitting and/or remaining in a stationary position for long periods of time. Exerting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.

Reports to: Assistant Superintendent, Teaching and Learning

Months/Days/Hours: as needed

Banded Rates: $42.44

Salary Scale: https://www.lcps.org/compensation

Remote Work Eligible: No

Collective Bargaining Unit: Non-Union

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