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Business Systems Analyst 2

New York State Department of Civil Service
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NOTE: To apply for this job, please email your cover letter, and resume to YourFutureBeginsHere@cs.ny.gov. Please include the Title and Vacancy ID# you are applying for in the subject line of your email. Applicants that do not submit their cover letter and resume to YourFutureBeginsHere@cs.ny.gov will NOT be considered.

Link to Apply: https://statejobs.ny.gov/public/vacancyDetailsView.cfm?id=201854

Vacancy ID: 201854

Strategic Planning and Innovation performs management activities designed to set priorities, focus energy and resources, strengthen operations, and ensure that employees and other stakeholders are working together to achieve measurable results. This office is providing project oversight for several initiatives that will transform the way the Department delivers services to partner agencies and to the public, and this position will play an important role in ensuring the success of these modernization efforts.

Under the direction of the Business Systems Analyst 3, the Business Systems Analyst 2 will be responsible for managing work in relationship management for the Department of Civil Service (DCS) Oracle and non-Oracle Systems. This title has multiple vacancies.

Duties include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Facilitate enterprise or division-specific requirements elicitation sessions for IT projects, ensuring stakeholder needs are adequately captured and thoroughly understood.
  • Participate in the development of process, data, and object-oriented models to foster a clear understanding of business requirements.
  • Decompose high-level business and user requirements to create detailed functional requirements for use by business units and/or IT implementation and development teams.
  • Verify and validate requirements throughout the business analysis process.
  • Test custom application changes to ensure functionality and integration.
  • Assist in establishing and maintaining business analysis methodologies.
  • Develop consistent approaches and best practices for business analysis.
  • Promote the use of business analysis and business process improvement.
  • Engage in professional development activities, including attending meetings, professional seminars, webinars, and classroom instruction.
  • Directly supervise a Business Systems Analyst 1.

Minimum Qualifications:

NY HELPS:
This title is part of the New York Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide Program (NY HELPS). For the duration of the NY HELPS Program, this title may be filled via a non-competitive appointment, which means no examination is required but all candidates must meet the minimum qualifications of the title for which they apply.

At a future date, it is expected employees hired under NY HELPS will have their non-competitive employment status converted to competitive status, without having to compete in an examination. Employees will then be afforded with all of the same rights and privileges of competitive class employees of New York State. While serving permanently in an NY HELPS title, employees may take part in any promotion examination for which they are qualified.

NON-COMPETITIVE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS (NY HELPS):
Either A. a bachelor’s or higher degree AND three years of business analysis* experience where your primary duty was performing three of the five following activities:

1. Using business analysis techniques to elicit requirements as the foundation for the solution to the organization’s business needs (e.g., workshops, focus groups, interviews, observation, brainstorming, surveys/questionnaires, or JAD Sessions).

2. Using business analysis techniques for the purpose of identifying solutions aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the system, business process, or product/service to fulfill the business requirements (e.g., Data Flow Diagram, Business Process Model, Root Cause Analysis, Fish Bone Diagram, Context Diagram, Business Process Flows, or Fit-Gap Analysis).

3. Describing in a comprehensive written document what the system, process, or product service must do in order to satisfy the established business requirements; this includes creating, updating, and maintaining documentation through the system development life cycle (e.g., Business Case, Use Case, Business Requirement Document [BRD], Fit-Gap Analysis, Impact and Feasibility Analysis, or Change Management Analysis).

4. Validating requirements throughout the product/system development life cycle (SDLC) including all changes to the processes that would enable an organization to achieve its goals.

5. Verifying requirements throughout the product/system development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure they perform to the required specifications and are capable of achieving the design capabilities; this includes developing test plans/scenarios and logical designs, testing the scenarios, reviewing test results, identifying constraints and risks, and/or communicating with stakeholders.

Or B. a bachelor’s or higher degree AND possession of a Level 2 International Institute of Business Analysis/Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (IIBA/CCBA) Certification** AND one year of business analysis* experience where your primary duty was performing three of the five activities listed above.

Or C. possession of a Level 3 International Institute of Business Analysis/Certified Business Analysis Professional (IIBA/CBAP) Certification.**

**Information regarding IIBA certification can be found at: http://www.iiba.org/Certification/certificationlevels.aspx

55 B/C QUALIFICATIONS:
Individuals certified eligible for the 55 B/C program under the Governor's Program to Hire Persons/Veterans with Disabilities pursuant to Section 55 B/C of the Civil Service Law will also be considered. To be considered, you must provide a copy of your letter of eligibility with your response.

You must meet the open competitive qualifications from the most recent examination announcement. The open competitive minimum qualifications are: please see NY HELPS minimum qualifications, as they are the same.

It is essential that candidates clearly and concisely indicate exactly how they meet the above minimum qualifications in their resume. Failure to show how you meet the minimum qualifications above may result in disqualification and removal from consideration.

Notes on Applying:

If you are interested and meet the minimum qualifications above, email your cover letter, and resume to YourFutureBeginsHere@cs.ny.gov. Please include the Title and Vacancy ID#201854 you are applying for in the subject line of your email.