Senior Consultant - Business Analyst

NYSTEC is a nonprofit technology consulting company, advising agencies, organizations, institutions, and businesses since 1996. We're independent and vendor-neutral, so we have our clients' best interests at heart. At NYSTEC, we know that we succeed when individuals and teams flourish personally and professionally, so our benefits and perks support that mindset.

As a senior consultant - business analyst in the Change Management and Learning Development (CMLD) practice, you will serve as a key member of a multidisciplinary project team, responsible for leading business analysis efforts across complex client initiatives. You will engage with stakeholders to elicit, document, and validate business and technical requirements, analyze current-state processes, and recommend data-driven solutions. Your work will support project planning, procurement activities, and system implementations. By facilitating meetings, developing clear documentation, and collaborating with both business and technical teams, you will ensure that client objectives are translated into actionable project deliverables and successful outcomes.

• Lead stakeholder interviews to elicit business and technical requirements.
• Analyze current-state workflows, systems, and processes to identify improvement opportunities.
• Develop business process models and data flow diagrams to support solution designs.
• Prepare detailed business requirement documents (BRDs) and functional requirement specifications (FRSs).
• Support procurement activities, including drafting requests for information (RFIs) and requests for proposals (RFPs) and evaluating vendor responses.
• Coordinate with project managers to track milestones and deliverables.
• Translate business needs into technical specifications and test cases.
• Conduct gap analyses and risk assessments for proposed business changes.
• Assist in system testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and implementation planning.

• Experience as a business analyst within a consulting or government/ public sector environment.
• Experience with system development life cycle (SDLC) activities to manage, plan, design, implement, test, and deliver information systems and strategies.
• Excellent critical thinking, problem solving, and analytical skills.
• Ability to develop relationships with stakeholders and understand their needs.
• Self-directed with a high level of initiative.
• Ability to tailor communication for technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Experience in business process reengineering and documentation.
• Strong understanding of the Microsoft suite of products, including Visio.

• Experience working on technical development and rollout client projects.
• Master's degree or certificate in business analysis.

• Bachelor's degree in a business, technical, or similar discipline and five years of business analysis experience.
• An equivalent combination of advanced education, training, and experience will be considered.

The target base salary for this position is $79,000.00 to $109,000.00 per year. When determining compensation, we analyze and carefully consider several factors, including skill set, experience, location, and job-related qualifications.

It is NYSTEC's policy to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all individuals, regardless of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, sex, or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, military service and veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws and ordinances. NYSTEC is strongly committed to this policy and believes in the concept and spirit of the law.

Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please contact recruitment@nystec.com if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for or to perform this job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

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