Business Analyst

Job Role: Business Analyst

Location: Trenton, NJ

Duration: 1 Year

Position Type: Contract

Interview Type: In-Person

• Bachelor's degree (minimum requirement)         Required
• Documenting business requirements and data integration rules for data integration and/or data warehousing projects               Required             3              Years
• Lead analyst for a project in a large heterogeneous enterprise environment       Required             1              Years
• Thorough knowledge of business analytics technology   Required
• Proficient in MS Project and MS word and MS excel        Required
• Strong interpersonal skills            Required

This endeavor will require a Business Analyst/Integration Specialist. Under direction of the Project Manager or designee in the Office of Information Technology (OIT), the Business Analyst/Integration Specialist will assist the Project Manager and Project Technical Architect in the identification and documentation of business requirements, the identification and analysis of potential source systems, the rationalization and documentation of data definitions and business rules from multiple systems, and the documentation and communication of data mappings to the data integration developers.

More specifically, the Business Analyst / Integration Specialist will be responsible to:

•     Participate in the gathering of business requirements

•     Document business rules captured in the requirements sessions, including the

requirements for tracking data changes over time

•     Identify the source systems with potential data to contribute to the solution

•     Analyze the quality of the data in the source systems to confirm that the data is

as described; work with data stewards to resolve any discrepancies

•     Work with the Data Architect / Data Modeler to make sure all business rules are

properly represented in the project logical data model

•     Develop mappings of the source system data to the project logical data model,

including all transformation and aggregation rules, and provide these mappings

to the Data Architect / Data Modeler and the development team

•     Develop mappings from the project logical data model to any analytical structures

that are required (data marts or dashboards) , including all transformation and

aggregation rules, and provide these mappings to the Data Architect / Data

Modeler and the development team

•     Provide feedback to the Project Manager regarding the development of realistic

timelines, resource requirements, and data mapping deliverables, provide

progress reports and status updates as necessary, and be accountable for those

aspects of the resulting project plan

•     Work with the Data Architect / Data Modeler and the development team to

resolve problems with the data mappings that are uncovered durig development,

including unexpected data quality issues

•     Assist the Quality Assurance Specialist to develop effective test plans to verify

the business rules represented by the project objectives

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.