Business Analyst

About Beacon Systems, Inc

Beacon Systems, Inc, delivers Program Management, Science, Engineering, and Technology Solutions to Federal, Commercial State, and Local Agencies. We are a subsidiary of Radiant Digital Services. We have a vast portfolio of clients across the country. Our Technology support to many DoD Agencies, NASA, Voice of America, FDA, and State Agencies such as State of FL, RI, MS, ND, VA, and WV extends our delivery of solutions worldwide.

Jackson, MS

6 months

OTSS project

The Client has a current goal for every community to effectively use a World-Class Data System to improve student outcomes. This goal has an outcome to increase the availability of quality data to drive decisions that improve student outcomes. We are planning to satisfy this goal in part by modernizing our current student information system along with improving the quality of data in connected systems.

This will include web-based application development, and creation of dashboards and reports that will improve access, accuracy and ease of use for all stakeholders.

Seniority level:
Entry level

Employment type:

Full-time

• Ability to create and document detailed business requirements, perform analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for the stakeholders
• Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation
• A strong understanding of the documentation development process, the software development process, and product life cycles
• Determine operational objectives by studying and documenting business functions; gathering information; evaluating output and formats
• Improve systems by studying and documenting current state and business rules
• Ability to partner with other team members and stakeholder across multiple business units to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with executive teams
• Ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience and business information to a technical audience
• Ability to successfully apply complex knowledge of fundamental concepts practices, and procedures of technical writing
• Construct workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications
• Translating stakeholder requests into formal requirements
• Deliver high-quality business requirement documentation for business manuals, new development, training manuals, user guide, and system guide

Required Degree:
Bachelor’s degree

• Must be able to effectively communicate (verbal and written) requirements with stakeholders as well as development team No min.
• Must be able to collaborate with Project Manager, Architect, and developers to ensure business requirements are communicated, accepted, and meet expectations 7
• Must be able to translate and simplify requirements from stakeholders into written requirement documents for development team. Documents include:
  Formal Business Requirements Document, Functional Design Document, Technical Design Document, Technical Use Cases, User stories, Business Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test cases. 7
• Must be able to create diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of business processes 7
• Must be able to create diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of data flow through system 7
• Must be able to create and manage test cases for Quality Assurance. 7
• Must be familiar with software and database development concepts 7
• Technical Business Analyst work on a software development team 7
• Must have experience developing technical documentation for enterprise software users, system administrators, and other technical audiences 7
• Strong experience in requirements management and creating all documents listed above 7
• Strong experience in mapping business processes into technical documentation 7

• Strong experience in user acceptance testing 7
• Ability to analyze business functions 7
• Practical experience generating process documentation and reports 7
• Strong working knowledge of relevant Microsoft applications, including Visio 7
• Extensive experience with data visualization 7
• Excellent communication with the ability to translate data into actionable insights 7
• Scrum 7
• Agile 7

Compensation for roles at Beacon Systems Inc depends on a wide array of factors including, but not limited to, the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by applicable law, Beacon Gov provides a reasonable range of compensation for this role.

Beacon Systems is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment. We ensure equal employment opportunities for all individuals, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Our commitment to being an equal-opportunity employer extends across all aspects of…