Job Description
Job Title: Sr. Business Analyst
Job Location: Hybrid at Boston, MA 02108 (80% Remote)
Job Duration: 12+ Months contract (High possibility of extension)
Duties:
- Confer with the user community to conduct research and analysis to formulate and define data integration requirements, scope, timing, and objectives.
- In conjunction with the Program systems integration (SI) vendor:
- Provide options for data integration other than the current interface landscape.
- Support detailed mapping specifications from which integration software will be written or programmed.
- Develop “integration materials” that allow business teams of the interfacing agencies to understand current
- and future interface solutions, such as process flows, support models, data, and testing approaches.
- Support agencies on their inbound interfaces that will be certified with the new solution.
- Review existing specifications for unique interfaces with the agency owning the interface to highlight
- modifications in the system specifications of the new solution.
- Provide complete documentation for new or modified integration protocols and processes, including operational procedures and manuals as needed.
- Support unit, system, integration, conversion, or other testing of integration deliverables.
- Support the SI and product vendors in building unique interfaces in partnership with the agency application ownerand in testing and certification of the interface for use with the new solution.
- Work with agencies and the Team to provide instructions on how to build extracts or queries linking data in the new solution with historical data housed in the existing Commonwealth Information Warehouse.
- Support acceptance testing and certification of all interfaces.
- Help manage the transition of responsibilities from legacy applications to the new solution and services.
- Assist in identifying and setting up procedures and tools to monitor and audit interfaces to assure the security of the interface platform.
- Support and maintain data within the Integration management tool.
- Assist/support Technical Lead on Authority to Operate (ATO) requirements.
- Assist/support Agencies in their Integration testing of the operational solution, including error handling, communications with BEST teams, and execution metrics.
Required Skills, Education & Certifications:
- Minimum of five years in a Business Analyst role with implementation experience in one or more of the following disciplines: large scale data integration across platforms, application development, application programming interfaces (APIs) or database management.
- Exposure to technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments in one or more projects of similar size and complexity to company.
- Demonstrated experience in implementing successful data integration projects.
- Demonstrated experience in business integration solutions with different interface types: batch interfaces, near real time interfaces, and real time interfaces.
- Demonstrated experience within a highly regulated operational environment.
- Knowledge of structured data, such as entities, classes, hierarchies, relationships, and metadata.
- Experience of database management system (DBMS) implementation, including tables, joins, SQL querying, and JSON.
- Experience establishing data from multiple sources to support analysis needs.
- Ability to quickly familiarize oneself with the use cases, business purposes and quality of the data.
- Exposure with data modeling.
- Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills.
Preferred Skills, Education & Certifications:
- Experience with Software as a Service cloud implementations particularly those in which legacy applications have been migrated to cloud delivery options.
- Experience in generation of integration materials, including but not limited to data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, data quality diagrams, and network and security diagrams.
- Demonstrated success in developing business materials leveraging a highly complex technical solution.
- Demonstrated success in managing projects using Jira and other PM tools.
- Demonstrated success working in both Agile and traditional waterfall business environments.
- Experience with Cloud business solutions.
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