SOAZ-Req # 9293- AZED - IT - Analyst - Technical Business Analyst (Hybrid)

Closing Date & Time: 1/5/2026@ 2 PM

Candidate must have excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences and must have expertise working on SCRUM teams in Agile environments

•    Understand what business units (internal customers) do, how goals are accomplished, and key process dependencies that may exist; participate in the QA process by understanding the implementation and helping to define test cases based on user requirements; support development teams in obtaining clarification of requirements/features from business units in a timely manner to avoid delays in the development cycle
•    Identify, document, and communicate complex requirements across systems and business domains using ADE IT specified formats to ensure continuity of requirement documents across projects
•    Prepare business process maps, high-level workflows, use cases, functional specifications, wireframes, process flow diagrams, identify/suggest feature requirements, develop user stories, and report mock-ups; identify business processes for redesign; determine how to improve existing business process; identify modifications to automated processes
•    Develop Agile Product Backlog items for presentation to development teams and business owners including appropriate assumptions, acceptance criteria, user/system details, and non-functional requirements, as well as facilitate backlog grooming and sprint planning
•    Understand the integration of processes across domains, scope, charter, and plans
•    Other duties as assigned as related to the position

Skills Required     

Knowledge in: 

•    Strong knowledge, skill, and experience associated with analysis of business processes of IT system applications, including system design and implementation in a full life cycle project development arena
•    Work with complex requirements across systems and business domains using specified formats to ensure continuity of requirement documents across projects
•    Proficiency in facilitating backlog grooming and sprint planning 
•    Experience working on an Agile/Scrum team 
•    Experience gathering requirements for API rules 
•    How to read and / or write basic SQL statements
•    Relational databases and database structures
•    Develop Agile Product Backlog items for presentation to development teams and business owners including appropriate assumptions, acceptance criteria, user/system details, and non-functional requirements
•    Develop and maintain Agile Product Backlogs 
•    Experience generating requirements from business units and using business requirement documents
•    Process improvement, workflow, benchmarking, and/or evaluation of business processes required
•    Strong experience in eliciting, detailing, documenting, and validating requirements 
•    Strong understanding of lean methodologies like Agile, Scrum as well as Waterfall

Skills Preferred    

Preference will be given to those applicants with:
•    Application development in IT departments in government or the private sector
•    Education industry and working knowledge of Microsoft Team Foundation Server
•    Knowledge of current Microsoft .NET technologies including SQL and SharePoint
•    Scrum certification and IIBA certification
•    Knowledge of current Microsoft .NET technologies including C#, VB.NET, ASP.Net, and SharePoint highly preferred
•    Working knowledge of Microsoft Team Foundation Services preferred

Experience Required 

•    Minimum of 4 years’ practical experience in technical business analysis required
•    Applicants must have a minimum of three years’ experience in scrum/agile environments 
•    How to read and / or write basic SQL statements