DataStaff, Inc. is hiring: Business Analyst in Richmond

DataStaff, Inc. is seeking a Business Analyst for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients in Richmond, VA

*This position is hybrid; the candidate will be required to work onsite 1 day/week

Job Description:

Our client is seeking a Technical Business Analyst with strong business analysis and Power Automate/ Power BI skills. The best candidate will have proven success producing solutions and results under required timelines. They also need to possess the energy to thrive in a fast-paced environment and the ability to effectively multitask. The right candidate will have proven experience in working closely with business users, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to understand the business drivers, needs, and pain points, creating compelling business cases with accurate cost and effort estimation, and translating these into technical specifications and design the most appropriate solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Perform technical business and systems analysis to process new intakes as they are submitted to assess alignment with Enterprise Architecture and provide leadership in business solutions for the agency. To document business cases, automate manual business processes and develop metrics and reports for transparency.
• Ability to work independently with management and business users gathering and delivering on requirements with high attention to detail, and focused on the timely completion of deliverables.
• Experience in creating visualizations and reports for requested projects.
• Design and develop dashboards, scorecards, charts, pivot tables, reports, and reporting systems according to the business requirements.
• Digest project requirements, devise BI solutions, and provide estimates for accomplishing the solution.
• Support business users with their own dashboard/report development, including troubleshooting existing reports, updating data sources, and publishing to on-prem and cloud report servers.
• Proven abilities to take initiative and be innovative in solution design.
• Analytical mind with a problem-solving aptitude.
• Comfortable in communicating both negative and positive implications of business user requests and decisions and able to provide alternative options.
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to question thought partners across functional areas.
• Ability to author context diagrams, data flow diagrams, business process diagrams, and other artifacts typically used in system/solution design.

Required Skills:

• 8 Years - Overall IT experience in data analysis, data management, and report development
• 6 Years - Microsoft Power BI development
• 6 Years - Microsoft Power Automate
• 2 Years - Microsoft Forms, populating SharePoint lists and creating attachments
• 6 Years - MS Office applications including Visio
• 5 Years - Experience working in both waterfall & agile

Desired Skills:

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
• IT Project Management experience

This opportunity is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.