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Job Title: IT Business Analyst

Job Requisition ID: 44456

Closing Date: 2/13/25

Salary: $7,491 a month

Work Hours: M-F 8:30AM - 5:00PM

Work Location: (Hybrid) 120 W Jefferson St Springfield, IL 62702-5170

Union Position: Yes

Work Authorization: US work authorization required. No Sponsorship Available. W2 only, no C2C. Not eligible for OPT/CPT. 

Questions? Email doit.recruitment@illinois.gov

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Are you looking for a rewarding career with an organization that values their staff? The Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) is seeking to hire qualified candidates with the opportunity to work in a dynamic, creative thinking, problem solving environment. 

This position serves as an IT Business Analyst in Unit B for the Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT), performing complex professional and advisory functions to provide a full range of business process re-engineering and transformation services for highly complex enterprise-wide IT projects. 

In this role, you will coordinate projects and conduct business requirements workshops with key stakeholders and users to determine business requirements. 

In addition, this position serves as a project team leader and collaborates with other project team leaders on highly complex projects while independently planning, developing, and implementing techniques for gathering and interpreting data. 

If you possess these knowledges, skills, abilities, and experience, we invite you to apply for this position to join the DoIT Team!

 

 

As a State of Illinois employee, you receive a comprehensive benefits package including:

  • 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 maternity/paternity 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.

For more information regarding State of Illinois Benefits follow this link: https://www2.illinois.gov/cms/benefits/Pages/default.aspx

 

Essential Functions

  • Under administrative direction, serves as an IT Business Analyst in Unit B for the Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT), performing complex professional and advisory functions to provide a full range of business process re-engineering and transformation services for highly complex enterprise-wide IT projects.
  • Writes user stories, use cases, and program specifications by the participation in design, testing, training, knowledge transfer, system tuning, and system implementation in order to translate and track results of business analysis through entire system development life cycle (SDLC) with waterfall and hybrid-agile approach.
  • Serves as a lead analyst and collaborates with other project team leaders on highly complex projects while independently planning, developing, and implementing techniques for gathering and interpreting data.
  • Develops, recommends, and reviews new procedures and techniques to improve requirements gathering, articulation, process, and data modeling, testing and documentation process.
  • Keeps abreast of new developments in the Information Technology (IT) field by continuing education by attending meetings, training sessions, seminars, and conferences to increase familiarity with and maintain current on IT products, vendors, techniques, and procedures.
  • Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above.

 

Minimum Qualifications

  • Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of 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.
     

Preferred Qualifications

  • Three (3) years of professional experience with at least two separate system development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies and frameworks.
  • Three (3) years of professional experience with programming capabilities.
  • Three (3) years of professional experience with Business Process Design and Business Process Reengineering definition and modeling.
  • Three (3) years of professional experience with requirements analysis and design, including visual process and data modeling techniques and conventions.
  • Three (3) years of professional experience with MS Office Suite, MS Visio, collaboration tools such as MS Teams, MS Project, MS Azure DevOps, and MS SharePoint.
  • Three (3) years of professional experience with preparing test plans, testing scripts, and testing data for new or modified programs and systems.
  • Ability to analyze data logically and exercise sound judgement in defining and evaluating problems of an operational or procedural nature.
  • Ability to gain and maintain effective working relationships with associates, vendors, clients, and others.
  • Developed verbal and written communication skills to present information to others with clarity and precision.

 

Conditions of Employment

NOTE: Applicants must possess the ability to meet ALL of the following conditions of employment, with or without reasonable accommodation, to be considered for this position.  

  • Requires the ability to verify identity.
  • Requires employment authorization to accept permanent full-time position with State of Illinois.
  • Requires the ability to pass a position specific, agency required background check.
  • Requires self-disclosure of criminal history.
  • Requires a valid drivers license and the ability to travel, including occasional overnight stays.
  • Requires the ability to work outside of normal hours to meet deadlines.
  • Requires the ability to use agency supplied equipment such as laptop, personal computer, work cell phone etc.
  • Requires the ability to work overtime including scheduled, unscheduled, short notice, evening, weekends, and holidays.
  • Requires the ability to attend seminars, conferences, and training to remain current on methods, tools, ideologies, or other industry related topics relevant to job duties.
  • Requires the ability to lift and carry objects or equipment weighing up to 20 pounds. This is considered light work as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor (20 CFR 404.1567(b)). Light work involves lifting no more than 20 pounds at a time with frequent lifting or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 pounds.

The conditions of employment listed are incorporated and/or related to any duties included in the position description.