Location: Candidates must be local to Austin, TX.
Length of Contract: 6-12 months
Seeking a contract Business Analyst to provide end user application support related to work orders, inventory, and asset managment. Utitlies background and experience with an asset management or work order system like IPS (Infor Public Sector) would be helpful.
The responsibilities would include:
Duties:
- Meeting facilitation and requirements gathering
- Process documentation/analysis
- Assist in creating project documents such as scope, roadmap, defining deliverables.
Skills:
- Highly organized
- Excellent communication
- Including explaining technical requirements to users and translating users’ needs into technical requirements
- Balancing deadlines with changing priorities
- Analyzing information and evaluating alternatives
- PM experience a plus
Abilities:
- Ability to serve as a technical lead for development and support of one or more IT systems
- Ability to apply analytical reasoning to complex problems
- Ability to multitask and to work effectively in a team or as an individual contributor
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing
- Ability to meet deadlines and effectively communicate the status of assignments
- Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
- Knowledge of database design principles
- Knowledge of IT policies, procedures, and security requirements
- Knowledge of structured query languages
- Knowledge of process models and data flow diagrams
- Skill with computers and computer systems
- Skill in documenting and maintaining application and process or configuration information
- Skill in providing system/application administration
- Skill in selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new concepts
- Ability to accurately identify/determine customer needs and take appropriate actions and/or steps to address identified needs
- Ability to recognize, value, and include different perspectives, experiences, approaches, and cultures in achieving organizational goals
- Ability to gain and maintain the trust and confidence of others and the organization through consistency and reliability
- Ability to give, receive, or share thoughts, ideas, perspective, and data to create shared understanding
- Ability to define, analyze, and find solutions for difficult or complex problems
- Ability to view the big picture
- Ability to quickly become familiar with emerging technologies
- Ability to identify trends as well as isolated events