Description

We are so excited to announce a new Project position for IT Business Analyst - Journey, for the Time, Leave, and Attendance Project, here at our beautiful Headquarters, in scenic Olympia, Washington!

Please note: This Project position is expected to last 18 months from the date of hire. The normal work hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm.

Here at the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs (WDVA), we are passionate about our mission of “Serving Those Who Served.” As a national leader in our advocacy for more than 500,000 veterans and their family members, we strive to connect them to earned benefits as well as innovative programs focused on their overall health and wellness. In addition, we provide critical community services through a variety of programs, and at our four State Veterans Homes located in Orting, Port Orchard, Spokane, and Walla Walla. These locations provide Medicare and Medicaid nursing home care to honorably discharged veterans, including, in some instances, their spouses, widows, or Gold Star.

Time, Leave, and Attendance Project: This position will support the IT Planning & Prioritization Strategies office as a Business Analyst leading small to medium projects independently and supporting large products under the guidance of the Senior BA respectively. The incumbent will be primarily focused analysis and design work to capture WDVA’s business digital transformation path forward, the time, leave, and attendance initiatives, and any related business analyst work as determined by the needs in IT.

Also in this position, you will create better business outcomes for customers through use of business analysis best practices and their innovative business analysis approach to the completion of all sized projects they are involved in supporting. You will lead subject matter practitioners in business and technology projects by facilitating intuitive sessions intended to solve complex problems within business workflows.

Bring your experience and knowledge, and apply today!

Duties

Some of what you'll be doing in either of these positions would include:

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  Design, develop and document the business analysis that work to solve complex business problems that successfully align with the BABOK, project management methodology and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using existing best practices, standards, and procedures.
• Document the business requirements for new and existing solutions and derives current and future state mapping solutions for informed decision making.
• Identify and analyze risks associated with changes to applications/systems and recommends mitigating measures and solutions.
• Analyze data integrity of existing and new systems and direct or plan data cleanup or process improvement opportunities from derived analysis.
• Perform gap analysis and makes recommendations for a possible technical and business solution and establishes mitigation strategies for gaps in solutions.
• Communicate recommendations from analysis to project stakeholders or business partners based on project type.
• Perform stakeholder management analysis to support projects and outcomes for process improvement mapping activities.
• Identify and develop stakeholder plans for establishing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders.
• Plan an approach for establishing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders.
• Conduct stakeholder analysis meetings, collaborate with various roles of staff to ensure successful collaboration and facilitation of activities occur.
• Liaison between the business area, developers and all other stakeholders to ensure mutual understanding of the change and its impacts.
• Enable and champions the changes before, during and after implementation of any product or deliverable.
• Design, develop and execute change management plan strategies following best practice techniques to ensure stakeholders evolve with the change timely.
• Define data through KPI’s and other metric forms for stakeholder decision making ease.
• And Much more!

Qualifications

Required:

• An associates degree and 3 years of *relative IT experience.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or relatable degree, and 1 year of *IT relative experience.

• Master’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or relatable degree.

• 5 years of experience of *relative IT experience.

• Relative IT Experience includes systems and software business analysis, design, software, or systems development following the software development lifecycle following agile scrum development practices or leaning toward scrum/Kanban development practices. Have expertise in analyzing, designing, implementing, maintaining, or programming computer software applications/databases

Preferred/Desired:

• Certification in LEAN and/or Agile methodologies.
• Certification in Change Management.
• 2 years of experience deploying COTS products as technology solutions within an IT division of a comparable size.
• 2 years of Business Analysis experience, or project experience.

Supplemental Information

Check out this awesome video here to see what it is like to work for the WDVA!

Application Process:
The top candidates will be contacted directly to interview for this position. Because the selection will be based on information provided by you, it is in your best interest to identify the knowledge, skills and abilities that address the mandatory and desirable qualifications described below.

Please include the following documents with your application:
1. A letter of interest describing specific qualifications.
2. A current resume detailing applicable experience and education.
3. A list of at least three professional references with current telephone numbers.

Other Information:

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  State employees must be fully vaccinated. Your vaccine status will be verified at New Employee Orientation.
• Prior to a new hire, a background check including criminal record history will be conducted. The successful hire must be able to pass a criminal background check in order to be granted access to federal VA and DOD information systems.

Applicants wishing to claim Veterans Preference should attach a copy of their DD-214 (Member 4 copy), NGB 22, or signed verification of service letter from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to their application. Please blackout any personally identifiable data such as social security numbers. For further information please contact us at: recruiters@dva.wa.gov.
Here at YOUR Washington Department of Veterans Affairs our employees come from all walks of life. We strive to hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

We believe in the importance of recognizing the value each of us contribute to the success of the mission of the agency. Having a diverse workforce is this agency’s greatest resource of strength and knowledge. It is through the combination of talents and abilities that we can pursue finding effective measures on how we can provide the best customer service. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone.

The State of Washington is an equal opportunity employer. Persons with a disability who need assistance in the application process or testing process, or those needing this announcement in an alternative format, may call (360) 725-2183. TTY users should first call 711 to access the Washington Relay Service.

You are welcome to include the name and pronoun you would like to be referred to in your materials and we will honor this as you interact with our award-winning diverse and inclusive organization.

If you have any questions regarding this announcement, program, or the agency please contact Nathaniel at recruiters@dva.wa.gov .