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Hourly Rate: $60 W2; $69 CTC/1099
Job Description:
Iowa Workforce Development has an immediate need for a Technical Business Analyst skilled at consulting with business stakeholders and technical resources to define requirements and validate conversion for a large-scale data migration effort for Unemployment Insurance Modernization.
Specifically, this role will be dedicated to gathering necessary documentation, participating in technical requirement discussions and performing validations.
- This individual will participate in interview and group sessions to define requirements, identify gaps and analyze process needs.
- This individual will participate in vendor-hosted data conversion sessions, articulating and/or documenting needs clearly and accurately to vendor teams.
- This individual will lead data validation for a large-scale data migration effort, as legacy data is migrated to a modernized system, working in partnership with IWD IT resources and vendor project team to prepare test cases as necessary, document test results and articulate needs.
Iowa Workforce Development is a state agency with a remarkable amount of modernization taking place over the next 5 years. These projects will transform agency business operations, eliminate technical debt, improve user experience and return significant cost savings.
The UI Benefit Modernization will move a 40-year-old legacy mainframe system to a contemporary web-based solution. The new system will be a modified/configurable off-the-shelf product, developed and hosted by a third-party vendor.
This position will work closely with the UI Benefits Modernization project manager and business analysts, as well as IWD technical resource and UI SMEs, while interacting daily with the vendor's project management and business analyst teams.
Required Skills:
Involvement in prior medium to large-scale data conversions (8 years) Demonstrated ability to elicit, document and understand business and technical requirements (8 years) Experience preparing data flow diagrams, system architecture mapping, business process flow documentation (8 years) Demonstrated strong communication skills across technical teams and business stakeholders (8 years) Proficient understanding of the software development lifecycle and related methodologies (8 years) Experience testing systems against test cases and technical specifications, analyzing and documenting results (8 years) Experience preparing test cases and technical specifications (5 years) Proficient in the use of MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, Jira (or equivalent) (5 years) Demonstrated ability to facilitate productive meetings with technical teams and business stakeholders (5 years) Working knowledge using SQL (5 years) Involvement in milestone/stage gate sign off and approval, ensuring technical and business readiness (5 years)
Preferred Skills:
- Experience partnering with vendor project teams and managing relationships (5 years)
Unemployment Insurance Business Analyst Data Conversion, System Architecture Mapping, SDLC, Visio, SQL, Jira
Higher Competitive Rates will be considered for consultants with advanced skill set
Corp to Corp Resumes are welcome
Consultants may need a criminal background check
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