IT Senior Business Analyst (Education Services) #011993

Kamehameha Schools has an IT Senior Business Analyst position available at KS Kapālama Campus, O‘ahu. Deadline to apply: 10/28/2011.

Educational Requirements:

High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent with 13 years of experience in an IT or software development environment doing business analysis, project management, test development and management, and user engagement support AND 2-3 years of general management experience;

OR

Bachelor's Degree with 8 years of experience in an IT or software development environment doing business analysis, project management, test development and management, and user engagement support AND 2-3 years of general management experience;

OR

Master's Degree with 6 years of experience in an IT or software development environment doing business analysis, project management, test development and management, and user engagement support AND 2-3 years of general management experience.

Minimum Requirements:

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• Over 5 year of related work experience.
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a cohesive team.
• Ability to perform business analysis and understand the needs of the business as a whole and its strategic direction.
• Ability to elicit complex requirements by employing a variety of techniques.
• Ability to develop and specify complex requirements at the correct level of detail to allow successful implementation.
• Ability to develop and maintain clear and concise analysis documentation for complex projects including process flow diagrams, detailed use cases and activity diagrams.
• Ability to perform solution assessment and validation by verifying the correctness of a proposed solution, how to assess possible shortcomings of a solution and how to support the implementation of a solution.
• Demonstrated experience in the vendor selection process to include preparation and evaluation of Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP) documents.
• Ability to successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Demonstrate strong analytical skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Ability to take broad directions and prioritize and accomplish a broad range of tasks without the necessity for detailed directions.
• Demonstrated ability to remain flexible in a demanding work environment and to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
• Excellent time management skills to plan, organize, and manage complex projects.
• Demonstrated development and maintenance of a variety of analysis documentation types -- state diagrams, use cases, UI prototypes, relationship diagrams, data dictionaries, etc.
• Able to provide work samples that include analysis artifacts such as state diagrams, use cases, UI prototypes, relationship diagrams, data dictionaries, etc
• Able to provide work samples that show clear and concise business writing style

Duties:

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• Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, reconciles conflicts, decomposes high-level information into details, abstracts up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguishes user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Investigates business systems, identifies options for improving business systems and bridges the needs of the business with the use of information technology.
• Works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes to processes, policies and information systems.
• Completes analysis to understand business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and works with the IT team to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

HOW TO APPLY:

Interested applicants must apply online. Visit our website at http://www.ksbe.edu/careers & search Requisition Number 011993 for full job description, & to apply for this position. *Sorry, no resumes accepted via email, mail or fax.