Complete Description:
The Senior Business Analyst will direct a small team of Business Analysts to capture the existing, multi-agency processes supporting the management of affordable housing activities for the District of Columbia.
The Senior Business Analyst will put together a work flow, and execute the project plan with appropriate activities to produce defined business process reengineering deliverables characterizing the “As-Is” business process.
The Senior Business Analyst will oversee the collaborative development of a “To-Be” business process for the District, and the decomposition of that process into sub-processes for the identified agencies and management teams in the Executive Office of the Mayor.
The Senior Business Analyst will be responsible for the team’s development of processes for data collection, analysis of supply and demand affordable housing data, the specification of core IT system requirements to enable the affordable housing management process, management reporting materials, dashboards, and formats, and providing recommendations related to procedures for the management and implementation of the affordable housing data collection processes.
Implements and refines a project plan and is a responsible for deliverables for BPR analysis of affordable housing activities in the District of Columbia.
Meets with customer and creates designs, uses software tools (e.g. Visio) to gather requirements, analyzes needs, identifies risks, proposes designs, documents, and carries out analysis.
Fosters an environment allowing for business process mapping, change management, operational design, design and creation of process reporting metrics and controls, and business process design.
Leads and facilitates process-related meetings and perform useful interviews with SMEs.
Works with District of Columbia agencies to define and document current business processes and lead efforts to analyze, design, and document requirements for “to be” business processes and procedures.
Analyzes data to improve reliability, security, risk management, and integrity.
Work in close collaboration with colleagues in a fast paced deliverable driven environment to facilitate accurate documentation and translation of business requirements for IT solutions.
Serve as a liaison between the business (customer) and IT organizations in the development of new IT system requirements.
Must be able to meet short-timeline deliverables
Behavior Characteristics:
Able to work independently as well as cooperatively as part of various sized teams and with various levels in the organization. Able to work effectively in a fast-paced IT environment with quickly changing priorities.
Skills:
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Expertise Rating
Analyze business & technical processes
Required
8
Years
3 - Expert
Business Process Reengineering; Business Performance Improvement
Required
8
Years
3 - Expert
Documentation experience in IT specifications, business rules & flow
Required
8
Years
3 - Expert
SDLC including requirements, data interfaces, QA & deployment
Required
8
Years
3 - Expert
Solving bus. & Tech. problems independently, creating innovative solutions
Required
8
Years
3 - Expert
Experience managing teams to produce deliverables and meet pre-determined timelines
Required
8
Years
3 - Expert
Six Sigma certification and experience with SIPOC and DMAIC/DMADV tools
Desired
8
Years
2 - Proficient
Substantive affordable housing experience
Desired
8
Years
2 - Proficient
Unified Modeling Language
Desired
8
Years
2 - Proficient
Bachelors Degree
Required