IT Business Analyst

IT Business Analyst

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Position Title: Business Analyst
Department: Information Technology
Minimum Starting Wage: $62,800+ pay commensurate with experience
Salary Grade: 109
Closing Date: Until Filled

TRS provides retirement benefits for teachers who are employed by all Illinois public common and charter school districts located outside the city of Chicago. The Illinois Pension Code contains the laws relating to our creation, benefits, and administration.

Please note that this position is open until filled. Candidates for this role are being reviewed as they apply.

Position Overview:

Under the direction of the Deputy Director of Quality & Compliance, this position will collaborate with key business users, cross-functional teams and IT staff to ensure IT solutions meet business needs. The incumbent will develop, interpret, review, validate, document and maintain business and functional requirements for software applications.

This position serves as the primary interface between business users and IT staff to determine feasibility, research, identify and present options that best serve TRS business needs. This position may be required to present formal presentations to end users, stakeholders and management. In addition, this position will participate in application acceptance testing, identify potential problems, and assist with researching opportunities to minimize complexity and develop stronger systems and processes.

Essential Functions:

• Communicate and collaborate with users and technical resources to determine business objectives and requirements, resolve issues and create solutions in a creative and effective manner.
• Serve on cross-functional Agile teams.
• Coordinate and facilitate business strategy and process improvement meetings with users. Capture meeting minutes and document clear and concise requirements.
• Prepare user stories of business processes and requirements.
• Evaluate business requests to determine feasibility. Research and identify areas for improvement or options that best serve business needs.
• Analyze, research and provide recommendations to improve efficiencies, develop stronger systems and processes, and to minimize complexity by leveraging IT resources and seeking out cost-effective solutions.
• Identify potential problems or issues that may arise with new or enhanced applications and effectively communicate the potential impact on day-to-day operations and/or project costs.
• Write business correspondence, technical reports and system specifications to support the design of technical solutions. Review report results for accuracy.
• Work with the application development team to design solutions that meet business requirements.
• Assist the Quality Assurance team in preparing user acceptance criteria, test cases, scripts and plans. Participate in acceptance testing to ensure user needs are met.
• Effectively communicate plans and conduct structured walkthroughs of requirements with cross-functional team members, business users and management.
• Present formal presentations to end users, stakeholders and management when requested.
• Participate in change management activities, training and support to end users.
• Perform other duties as required or assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field or relative years of experience in lieu of a degree
• 3+ years of relevant experience in Information Technology
• 2+ years as an IT Business analyst
• A commitment to delivering high-quality, prompt and efficient service to the business
• Strong verbal and written communication skills catering messages to both business and technical audiences.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and planning skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in public sector (Pension and Retirement funds, Securities, Financial Services, and Investments a plus

Benefits:

• State, health, dental, life, and vision insurance
• 12 vacation, 12 sick, and 3 personal time days of compensated time
• Teachers’ Retirement System Pension
• Deferred compensation plan

TRS is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

If you require a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) throughout the recruitment process, please reach out to us at the following email: careers@trsil.org