Senior Business Analyst at TECKpert in Tallahassee, FL

Job description

• We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to support our client based in Tallahassee, FL.
• US BASED CANDIDATES ONLY.
• Candidates must be located in Tallahassee, FL or the surrounding area.
• *No third parties and no sponsorship*
• TECKpert is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support our client, a state transportation agency in Tallahassee, FL, on modernization, remediation, and migration initiatives inside the Office of Information Technology Application Services group. The BA will join a full lifecycle agile / hybrid development team, translating strategic and operational needs into actionable business and technical requirements while ensuring documentation remains complete and accurate throughout the development lifecycle.
• The candidate will work directly with subject matter experts, business offices, technical teams, and other stakeholders. Core responsibilities include high level requirements gathering, preparing analysis artifacts, validating workflows, participating in solution design discussions, coordinating testing readiness, and supporting business offices with application readiness, testing, and modernization or sunset processes. The BA will also prepare business cases, use cases, test cases, and executive-ready materials that translate complex business needs into technical specifications and shared understanding across technical and customer-facing teams.

Responsibilities

• Research and analyze business processes and their inter-relationships, documenting and diagramming business and system workflows, process dependencies, and cross-functional interactions
• Collaborate closely with technical and functional teams to develop technical specifications, use cases, business rules, and other analysis artifacts that accurately translate business needs into actionable requirements
• Plan, prepare, and support testing activities, including regression, functional, data validation, system integration, load, or performance testing, ensuring readiness and coverage for both new and modernized functionality
• Gather and document goals and objectives related to business strategy, translating them into clear and measurable requirements for application, infrastructure, and solution development efforts
• Assist in business process redesign and documentation to support remediation, modernization, migration, and sunset activities across the enterprise environment
• Assess technical problems and potential solution approaches, providing recommendations that support future-state alignment, modernization goals, and integration of new and existing processes
• Identify opportunities for process improvement, document current-state workflows, perform gap analyses, design future-state processes, and develop performance measures that support continuous modernization and operational efficiency
• Prepare business cases and feasibility studies and participate in work sessions to support remediation, modernization, and migration planning efforts
• Evaluate critical information gathered from multiple sources, summarize detailed and complex data into clear, executive-ready formats, and break down aggregate information into meaningful and actionable insights

Requirements

• Minimum of five (5) years of business process analysis and requirements documentation, including independent facilitation with executives and subject matter experts
• Proficiency in process mapping and modeling with Microsoft Visio
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of data migration practices, testing and quality assurance tools and techniques, and change and release management
• Experience translating business requirements into technical specifications
• Experience using SharePoint and Microsoft Teams for collaboration and document management
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and understanding of IT infrastructure and software development practices
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across business units, directors, security, and technology teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to conduct as-is and to-be analysis, perform detailed research, and model business processes using appropriate tools and techniques
• Ability to produce complete, accurate, and legible functional documentation that captures business processes, inputs/outputs, and system interactions
• Ability to interpret and communicate technical information related to application development and data processing to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Exposure to Power BI
• Experience with Azure DevOps for managing user requirements and backlogs
• Knowledge of Florida Administrative Code Rules 60GG-1 through 60GG-5
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Business Administration, Communication, Information Systems, or related field (equivalent work experience may substitute)
• Certifications in any of the following: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Owner (CSO), CBAP, PMI-PBA, PMI-ACP, PMP, ITIL
• PMBOK familiarity and knowledge of State of Florida IT standards, methodologies, and governance practices

Skills

Required

• Business process analysis
• Requirements documentation
• Data migration practices
• Change and release management
• SharePoint and Microsoft Teams
• Software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Facilitation and stakeholder management
• Verbal and written communication
• As-is and to-be analysis
• Research
• Functional documentation

Preferred

• Power BI
• Azure DevOps
• PMBOK

Benefits

• This opportunity is for a full-time, contract position with possible extensions and pay commensurate with experience up to $55 per hour or $114,400 per year. Medical, dental, vision and life insurance available after 30 days of hire.