Senior Technology Business Analyst – Business Transformation

Our Council vision is: “Bellevue welcomes the world; our diversity is our strength. We embrace the future while respecting the past.” We value all employees and their contributions. The City invests in its employees and encourages and rewards employee growth and development by building on our commonalities and our differences. Bellevue is a high-tech hub, noted for its diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

We work collectively to make it a place where you want to work, live and play.

Bellevue is consistently ranked one of the top five digital cities in the nation and supports and encourages innovative approaches to delivering high quality services to residents and employees.

The City of Bellevue is working on a long-term city-wide program to implement modern, user-friendly enterprise technologies that will make work more efficient and provide better data insights. This program called Business Transformation, will ensure Bellevue’s business systems, processes, employees, and technology meet the needs of the community and workforce, both now and in the future.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Technology Business Analyst to join our Business Transformation Program team, under the Information Technology Department. You will have strong technical and analytical skills and a passion for service, community, and technology. As a core member of the program team for this highly complex effort, you will be responsible for supporting the implementation, associated process reengineering and adoption of multiple critical enterprise systems.

The IT Department consists of 65 talented employees serving over 1,600 staff in 13 departments across 35 different locations. The IT Department (ITD) supports the computers, applications, network, servers, communications, and services needed to support high quality City operations. As a full-service technology organization, ITD provides a wide range of services, including Network Systems and Security, Help Desk and Client Services, Application Development, Project Management, Technology Business Solutions, Geospatial Technology Services, and Graphics.

In addition, Bellevue ITD provides technology and business services to the regional government non-profit eCityGov Alliance. Join our award-winning department to work with colleagues who partner, innovate, and evolve our technology services.

If this sounds like an exciting place to work, then you might be a great fit for our Senior Technology Business Analyst – Business Transformation role. You thrive on collaborating with technical and business colleagues to promote a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and supporting team members through change management as technology needs evolve. You help foster environments where business partners and customers can identify and implement technologies that improve customer service and streamline operations.

This role is a limited term with an expected duration of 5 years.

• Collaborate with stakeholders from across Bellevue to understand complex business needs and requirements and translate those into functional requirements and technical specifications.
• Lead the analysis effort, including gathering, documenting, and analyzing business requirements and processes.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to develop project plans, estimates, and timelines.
• Act as a subject matter expert for business processes and technology solutions, providing guidance and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Able to deliver options analysis, gap analysis, business process reengineering, and business consulting.
• Develop and maintain project documentation, including requirements, functional specifications, use cases, and test plans.
• Develop and execute test cases to ensure successful delivery of technology solutions.
• Supporting adoption of new enterprise systems by collaboratively developing user procedures, creating training materials and delivering training.
• Provide leadership and guidance to junior business analysts and other team members.

• Strong analytical…