Under administrative direction, serves as a Technical Business Analyst II for the Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) supporting the Illinois Department on Aging (IDOA) performing complex professional and advisory functions in Application Services.
Writes user stories, use cases, and program specifications by participating in designing, testing, training, knowledge transfer, system tuning, and system implementation to translate and track results of business analysis through the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Serves as project/team leader on highly complex projects while independently planning, developing, and implementing techniques for gathering and interpreting data.
Analyzes and recommends new procedures and techniques to improve requirements gathering, articulation, process and data modeling, testing and documentation processes.

Requirements

Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to four (4) years of college with course work in computer science or directly related fields.
Requires three (3) years of professional experience in Application Services or a related Information Technology field.
Requires three (3) years of professional experience applying multiple Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies to projects, with demonstrated expertise in programming, business process design and reengineering, and requirements analysis using advanced visual modeling techniques including data flow diagrams, process maps, and use case modeling.
Requires three (3) years of professional experience utilizing a broad range of office productivity and development tools, including MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Project, MS Visio, and relational databases (DB2, SQL).

Benefits

Competitive Group Insurance benefits including health, life, dental and vision plans
Flexible work schedules (when available and dependent upon position)
10 -25 days of paid vacation time annually (10 days for first year of state employment)
12 days of paid sick time annually which carryover year to year
3 paid personal business days per year
13-14 paid holidays per year dependent on election years
12 weeks of paid parental leave
Pension plan through the State Employees Retirement System
Deferred Compensation Program – voluntary supplemental retirement plan
Optional pre-tax programs -Medical Care Assistance Plan (MCAP) & Dependent Care Assistant Plan (DCAP)
Tuition Reimbursement Program and Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program eligibility

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)business process designrequirements analysisdata flow diagramsprocess mapsuse case modelingprogram specificationsuser storiessystem implementationsystem tuning

Soft Skills

project leadershipdata interpretationrequirements gatheringprocess improvementcommunicationadvisory functionstrainingknowledge transferanalytical thinkingproblem-solving