This is a contract with a great organization. As a contractor for Smith Johnson, you are eligible for medical, dental, life, disability and a matching retirement plan. Smith Johnson pays for 70% of your medical and dental and 100% of life and disability. The contract also includes 16 hours for PTO accrued a month. You are also eligible for a matching 3% retirement. Smith Johnson believes in taking care of our contractors.

Job Description & Primary Purpose:

This is an intermediate-level professional position that broadly identifies, documents, and demonstrates the optimal technical and user experience. This is accomplished through requirements activities/deliverables and requirement-driven processes, which are aligned with the business requirements and solution scope. The analyst can broadly perform all functional analyst competencies for one or multiple projects. This position keeps pace with discipline trends.

This individual works with divine guidance to provide or support technology that furthers the mission of the Church and reflects the eternal impact of the gospel.

Responsibilities:

• Encourage a culture of user-centered design and knowledge sharing
• Assist in the creation and execution of the product vision and road map
• Lead efforts to elicit, represent and communicate requirements through requirement-driven processes, written requirements deliverables, diagrams, flow charts, presentations, etc.
• Conduct, and may lead, functional testing and validation to ensure that the user experience of the end product meet the original intent and is of the highest possible quality
• Promote requirement-driven processes and best practices
• Assignments are broad in nature, requiring originality and ingenuity
• Usually work with minimum supervision, conferring with senior levels on unusual matters

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent professional experience
• 4+ years of relevant professional experience
• Working knowledge and application of the following competencies:
  • Business Architecture
  • Business Analysis
  • Enterprise Analysis
  • Requirements Elicitation/Analysis
  • Solution Assessment/Validation
  • Requirements Management
• Skilled in requirements elicitation and requirement-driven process and best practice
• Proficient experience and understanding of technical and operational application functionality
• Strong technological/architectural to functional skill sets
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• General knowledge of processes and methods (i.e., Agile, Scrum)
• This job operates in a professional office environment
• To successfully perform the essential functions of the job there may be physical requirements which need to be met such as sitting for long periods of time and using computer monitors/equipment

Core Skills:

Assist in the creation and execution of the product vision and road map, Support efforts to elicit, represent and communicate requirements through requirement-driven processes, written requirements deliverables, diagrams, flow charts, presentations, etc..