Business Analyst

IO Datasphere, Inc. has been providing project management, software development and IT staff augmentation services to our clients in the Midwest and throughout the U.S. since 1996. We are an approved vendor on contract to provide software development and IT staff augmentation services for the States of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. We also provide these services to businesses, as well as local and county governments, in the Midwest and nationwide. Our client is looking for a Business Analyst to be responsible for leading application development and Business Intelligence (BI) projects for the Division as a Business Solutions Manager (part Project Manager, part Business Analyst). The systems supported and to be developed by this position have a signicant impact on the day-to-day operations of workforce development programs serving job seekers and employers throughout the state of Wisconsin.

• Responsible for liaising with State and partner sta, as well as end users, to determine whether system modications are needed as a result of policy changes, user requests and/or other events.
• Facilitate planning meetings and coordinate the development and testing of needed application and BI changes, which requires comprehensive knowledge of program policy development and operations, systems design, user acceptance testing, systems implementation and follow-up.
• Responsible for requirements gathering, story creation and business process documentation.

• Experience in technical writing and documentation
• Web and client-server application development experience, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, implementation, and support MS Office Products
• Understanding of project management methodologies and experience with 'agile'
• Project Management
• Documenting requirements
• In-Depth Knowledge of System Development Life Cycle Deliverables for each phase of development
• Requirements analysis and gathering

• User testing, system testing, and user acceptance test plans
• Experience with data warehousing and report creation, using platforms such as Business Intelligence
• 2 years - Knowledge of Electronic Document Management, BPM, Workflow, and Scan/Capture software using products such as eDocs and Kofax Total Agility.
• 1 year - Active Directory Tools
• 1 year - MS Project & MS Access
• 4 years - Change management
• 2 years - Data modeling
• 2 years - Structured Analysis and Design of Web and Client-Server applications for both transactional and batch applications
• 2 years - Experience in requirements gathering for data warehouse
• 2 years - SQL Client tools
• 2 years - .NET
• 3 years - Business Objects
• 2 years - SQL
• 2 years - Execution and Documentation of Regression, System & User Acceptance Test Plans, Test Scenarios and Test Results for a Large Mainframe Systems
• 1 year - Experience with Tableau
• 1 year - SharePoint
• 4 years - Visio