Business Analyst 5

ob Title: Business Analyst 5

 Location: Lansing, MI

 Employment Type: Contract(C2C)

About Us:

 DMV IT Service LLC is a trusted IT consulting firm, established in 2020. We specialize in optimizing IT infrastructure, providing expert guidance, and supporting workforce needs with top-tier staffing services. Our expertise spans system administration, cybersecurity, networking, and IT operations. We empower our clients to achieve their technology goals with a client-focused approach that includes online training and job placements, fostering long-term IT success.

Job Purpose:

The Business Analyst will play a key role in gathering, analyzing, and documenting business and functional requirements to ensure the development of effective and user-centered IT solutions. This includes facilitating meetings, mapping current and future-state business processes, and collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment between business needs and system capabilities.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate meetings with business and technical stakeholders to gather and clarify system requirements.
• Document business needs using standardized templates, ensuring clarity, testability, and alignment with agency policies.
• Translate discussions into Epics, Features, and User Stories during Agile sprints, maintaining a prioritized project backlog.
• Analyze current ("As-Is") workflows and create optimized future-state ("To-Be") process maps.
• Ensure stakeholder input is captured to reflect accurate data and functional requirements.
• Monitor adherence to the project scope, and support decision-making regarding changes to scope or requirements.
• Support data governance efforts by ensuring correct stakeholders are involved in defining and approving data needs.
• Participate in evaluating system implementation options (e.g., Build vs. Buy analysis).
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers, architects, developers, testers, and documentation specialists to ensure a unified understanding of project functionality and objectives.
• Contribute to the completion of required deliverables as outlined in the State of Michigan’s Systems Engineering Methodology (SEM).

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working as a Business Analyst on enterprise-scale projects.
• Strong background in both Agile and Waterfall project environments.
• Experience writing clear, testable requirements, including Epics, Features, and User Stories.
• Proficiency in mapping business processes and developing As-Is and To-Be diagrams.
• Ability to align technical solutions with business objectives, including supporting build vs. buy evaluations.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.