INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYST I, Opt A (Project Coordinator/Business Analyst)

at Illinois Department of Innovation & Technology in Springfield, Illinois, United States

Job Description

40% Under administrative direction, serves as a Project Coordinator/Business Analyst in the Business Alignment Section of the Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT):

• Performs difficult and specialized professional work in project coordination, business process analysis and process re-engineering functions for assigned projects.
• Coordinates projects and conducts business requirements workshops with key stakeholders and users to determine business requirements.
• Tracks, monitors and reports on milestones, interval progress, projects constraints and constraint mitigation.
• Coordinates and conducts complex business process analysis, detailed requirements analysis, in-depth technical research and feasibility studies on-site and at user provided facilities.
• Creates detailed process diagrams, data flow diagrams, and other graphical models representing business and system requirements and technical descriptions. 
• Writes user stories, use cases, and program specifications
• Participates in design, testing, training, knowledge transfer, system tuning, and system implementation in order to translate and track results of business analysis through entire system development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure requirements traceability throughout software development. 
• Uses technologies such as MS SharePoint, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, and Azure Dev Ops/ADO in performance of duties  

32% Prepares testing plans, test scripts, and test data for new or modified programs and/or systems:   

• Works with test team to ensure logic paths are tested. 
• Evaluates test results to verify conformance with program objectives. 
• Prepares user and operational guidelines, operational manuals, and application or system documentation. 
• Follows the agency’s adopted system design methodology to ensure the integrity of each system/sub-system meets the required standards of security, efficiency, and scope of the specific project.
• Works outside of normal hours to meet deadlines   

15% Analyzes and recommends new procedures and techniques to improve the requirements gathering, articulation process and data modeling, testing and documentation process:  

• Prepares and makes presentations to large and small audiences. 
• Provides mentoring and training to other staff when required.

5% Keeps abreast of new developments in the Information Technology (IT) field: 

• Continues education by attending meetings, training sessions, seminars and conferences to increase familiarity with and maintain current on IT products, vendors, techniques and procedures.
• Attends demonstrations and exhibitions related to assigned operations.
• Travels when held off-site.   

5% Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above.