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Vendor Mgmt Business Analyst
Amarillo, TX
Job Description
Location:Amarillo, TX
Job Title: Vendor Mgmt Business Analyst
Career Level From: Senior Associate
Career Level To: Senior Specialist
Organization: IT Business Operations (51355096)
Job Specialty: Business Analysis
What You'll Do
- Analyzes business and technical processes to formulate and develop new and modified business information processing systems.
- Key interface point to the business unit to define requirements and business cases for the technology developments.
- Coordinates with business and technology teams ascertaining system requirements, such as program functions, output requirements, input data acquisition, and execution of user's acceptance; and may coordinate testing, system techniques, and controls.
- Requires knowledge of computer system capabilities, business processes, and workflow.
- Responsible for facilitating IT project teams through business cases, eliciting key functional elements and requirements, requirements organization, translating and simplifying requirements, requirements management and communication, and requirements analysis.
- Analyze and assess current processes to define and document requirements and improvements.
- Develop software quality assurance documents to include business requirement documentation for IT projects. Work with business units to define and document project scope, requirements, and expectations and to report potential conflicts with other units to the project team for evaluation.
- Work as a key interface point for business stakeholders, senior management, and the technical team to identify, discuss, and resolve any issues related to functional system delivery.
- Provide documentation and communication of business needs and/or requirements with thorough understanding of business systems and industry requirements
- Ensure understanding of implications of technical solutions
- Collaborate and coordinate across all IT and business segments
- Ensure consistency and adherence to company standards, processes and procedures.
- Work with Quality Assurance for QA acceptance of product/business requirements.
- Use requirements to drive the design or review of test cases, process change requests, and assist with managing a project's scope, acceptance, installation, and deployment.
- Assess and validate activities to determine if a solution has fulfilled the requirements.
- Ensure adherence to project lifecycle management and software lifecycle management.
- Exercise initiative and independent judgment and discretion under limited supervision.
- Responsible for adherence to company strategies, policies, processes, methodologies, commitments and goals
- Develop and maintain business analysis technical documentation, per procedures; and ensures completeness and accuracy
- Ensure effective communications exists with and among teams for which he/she is assigned
- Brief upper management and project teams on work assignments
- Participate and/or develop procurement deliverables (e.g., statements of work, bills of material) for external services and materials
- Limited travel may be required
- Work schedule is a 9/80 M-Fri schedule for Pantex site
What You Can Expect
- Meaningful work and unique opportunities to support missions vital to national and global security
- Top-notch, dedicated colleagues
- Generous pay and benefits with a stable organization
- Career advancement and professional development programs
- Work-life balance fostered through flexible work options and wellness initiatives
Minimum Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering/science/information technology discipline: Minimum 2 years of relevant experience.
- Master's degree in engineering/science/information technology discipline: Minimum 1 year of relevant experience.
- OR ten or more years of education and/or relevant experience may be considered to satisfy educational and years-of-experience requirements for this posting.
Preferred Job Requirements
- Proven experience in business analysis for production or technical projects
- Knowledge and understanding of strategies for gathering, reviewing and analyzing data requirements
- Knowledge and understanding of business process modeling, traceability and quality management techniques
- Knowledge and appreciation of business concepts and requirements as applicable to a large government facility
- Knowledge of the principles of strategic business decision-making
- Proven experience in eliciting requirements of complex projects and/or programs through business analysis techniques. Skilled to develop and prepare business analyses and plans; prioritize requirements and create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups
- Highly-motivated individual with a natural instinct to lead
- Proven experience in effectively handling multiple tasks while meeting deadlines
- Skilled in the use of tools such as computerized spreadsheet, relational database modeling, modeling software, data analytics, word processing software, Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, or other hybrid agile methods required
- Ability to process computer data and to format and generate reports
- Ability to create, compose, and edit written materials
- Ability to develop and deliver presentations
- Ability to work independently and to work effectively as part of a group with diverse backgrounds and skills
- Strong interpersonal communication skills, time management skills, organizational skills, and oral and written skills
- Project Management Institute (PMI) certification or equivalent (i.e., PBA, PMP, CAPM) preferred, but not required. Knowledge of business analysis and/or project management principles, practices, techniques, and tools is preferred
- Scrum Master Certification
- ITIL Foundations Certification
- ServiceNow experience with Agile Development
- Highly-motivated with proven ability to lead and manage multiple concurrent and complex IT related infrastructure and/or application development teams through business analysis processes in a fast paced, and demanding business environment
- Knowledge and understanding of business analysis best practices and processes such as those of the Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Knowledge and understanding of project lifecycle management and software development life cycle
- Ability to logically and systematically evaluate business and process problems to determine appropriate solutions
- Experience in conflict resolution with individuals or a team
- Exercises initiative and independent judgment and discretion under limited supervision
- Experience serving as a Scrum Master or other hybrid agile methods is desired
Why Pantex and Y-12?
You get #morethanajob. We encourage employees to achieve a healthy personal balance among home, work and the community. One of the ways we embrace work-life balance is by offering flexible work arrangements that provide alternatives to the traditional workweek, while still meeting business needs. Top talent and personal commitment mean more to our success than any other factors, so we reward our people with the kinds of benefits that make a positive difference in the quality of their lives. Benefits such as: medical plan, prescription drug plan, vision plan, dental plan, employer matched 401(k) savings plan, disability coverage, education reimbursement and many more. Want to stay healthy and fit but hate the cost of a gym membership? Take advantage of one of our onsite workout facilities and eat healthy in our onsite cafeterias. Much more than a workplace, at Pantex and Y-12, you can build a career that lasts a lifetime.
Notes
The minimum education and experience for the lowest career level in the job posting range are listed under Minimum Job Requirements. Successful candidates hired into a higher career level than the minimum in the range must meet the requirements listed in the job leveling charts for the career level into which they are being hired.
If a range of Career Levels is posted, i.e., Senior Associate to Senior Specialist, internal applicants already in one of the Career Levels would come across at their current Career Level. Internal applicants currently in a lower level Career Level would move to the lowest posted Career Level.
Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status. The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.
Position may require entry into Materials Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (HRP). If HRP is required, candidate must complete a counterintelligence-scope polygraph, pursuant to 10CFR 709. Medical requirements may apply.
CNS is a drug-free workplace. Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation. As an employee, you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants. All employees are subject to being randomly selected for drug testing without advance notification.
CNS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, disability or veteran status.
Job Summary
Company
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
2+ years
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