CentreIT is seeking a Business Analyst Level 5 for a 12 month contract position with one of our DC Govt clients. The Business Analyst will have experience in the supervision, research, analysis, evaluation, design/redesign, development, integration, and implementation of large scale government business processes and systems. Identify problems and developing solutions that achieve optimum performance and cost effectiveness. • Serve as the Senior Analyst on projects to gather requirements, document existing business processes, and make recommendations on how to improve existing business work flows and processes.
• Gather requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: (Functional requirements (Business Requirements Document), iii. Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs)
• Utilize experience and knowledge in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies.
• Successfully lead and support multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Work independently with users to define concepts and under direction of project managers and application developers.
• Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
• Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Serves as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow.
• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs. Make recommendations based on best practices and industry standards
• Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams, and Office of Information Technology Managers.

Behavioral Characteristics
• Possesses detailed understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design.
• Understands Mainframe, Internet, Intranet, Extranet andclient/server architectures.
• Understands legacy and web base systems.

Required / Desired Skills
(Skill, Required / Desired, Amount of Experience, Expertise Rating)

Analyze business & technical processes for websites
Required, 12 Years, 3 - Expert

Analyze CMS processes and write user manuals for non-technical users
Required, 4 Years, 3 - Expert

COTS CMS
Required, 4 Years, 3 - Expert

Documentation experience for web specifications, business rules & flow
Required, 4 Years, 3 - Expert

SDLC
Required, 12 Years, 3 - Expert

Solving bus. & Tech. problems independently, creating innovative solutions
Required, 12 Years, 3 - Expert

SQL
Required, 5 Years, 2 - Proficient

Database Design
Highly desired, 5 Years, 2 - Proficient

.NET
Highly desired, 5 Years, 2 - Proficient

Reporting Tools
Highly desired, 5 Years, 2 - Proficient

JCL
Nice to have, 5 Years, 2 - Proficient

Unemployment Insurance (UI) Tax and Benefits Knowledge
Nice to have, 2 Years, 1 - Basic

C#
Desired, 5 Years, 3 - Expert

Resumes must be submitted by COB 06/24/12 and the estimated start date is 07/02/12.

Candidates will be subject to a criminal background check. Candidates must have previous U.S work experience and either hold U.S. citizenship or a current Green Card.