For the given job description <<Cloud and Things is a leading provider of IT solutions in the public sector. We are dedicated to delivering results and solving complex challenges for our clients. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about making a difference in the world, who are driven by a sense of purpose, and who are committed to excellence. Our team thrives on collaboration, innovation, and delivering high-quality projects that have a significant impact on the public sector's IT landscape.
We are seeking experienced Business Analysts for Level III positions with a strong background in leading complex projects and a focus on system requirements analysis. As a Business Analyst, you will play a crucial role in understanding business needs, gathering requirements, and contributing to the successful implementation of projects. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and assume a leadership role to ensure that project planning, design, and delivery align with business objectives.
DutiesLead and participate in requirements gathering sessions, facilitating discussions to capture client-focused needs.Analyze gathered requirements to identify key insights and prioritize system requirements for continuous integration and deployment.Utilize your expertise to validate and document system requirements that align with best-fit technology solutions.Manage and identify system requirements with a focus on areas such as eligibility, enrollment, case management, payment, claims, and recoupments.Document system requirements for mainframe modernization projects across multiple complex functional domains.Conduct thorough business process analysis and optimization within technology environments, documenting current "As Is" states and proposing innovative "To Be" states.Develop comprehensive requirements documentation, including use cases, screen prototypes, and specifications, adhering to established templates and using tools like Blueprint Storyteller.Facilitate meetings and workgroups to foster collaboration and ensure a comprehensive understanding of requirements.
Basic QualificationsAt least 7 years of experience on complex projects, with a minimum of two (2) years in a leadership role as a Business Analyst.At least 7 years of client-focused business and requirements analysis experience, including leading requirements gathering sessions and preparing technology proposals based on elicited requirements.
Preferred SkillsProfound experience in managing, identifying, documenting, and validating system requirements in areas like eligibility, enrollment, case management, payment, claims, and recoupments.Expertise in identifying, documenting, and validating system requirements within mainframe modernization projects encompassing multiple intricate functional domains.Strong aptitude for business process analysis and optimization in technology environments, with an ability to document "As Is" and "To Be" states.Extensive proficiency in creating comprehensive requirements documentation, including use cases, screen prototypes, and specifications, using tools like Blueprint Storyteller.Demonstrated capability in facilitating meetings and workgroups to enhance collaboration and requirement understanding.
 Cloud and Things complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.>> the resume: <<Professional SummaryEnergetic Data Engineer in developing robust code for high-volume businesses. Strong decision-maker with 6 years of experience in Data engineering and help firms in designing and executing solutions for complex business problems involving large scale data warehousing, real-time analytics and reporting solutions. Ability to translate business questions and concerns into specific quantitative questions that can be answered with available data using sound methodologies.
SkillsPython 3.x, R, SQLHadoop, Apache SparkHive, Pig, Kafka, Sqoop, OozieTeradata, SnowflakeAmazon S3,EMR,LambdaGit, Jenkins, SplunkMS OfficeMicrosoft Visual C#.NET
EducationThe University Of Texas At DallasRichardson,TXExpected in4 2020––Master of Science:Business Analytics-GPA:
Work HistoryAvanade-Data EngineerBangor,ME,04/2020-CurrentCombining data from multiple source systems (Profile, Systematics, etc..) and multiple platforms (Snowflake, OneLake, Hubs) and computing canonical gold-star metrics “once and for all” to cut operational costs.Develop Spark jobs to transform data and apply business transformation rules to load/process data across enterprise and application specific layers.Experience in building/operating/maintaining fault tolerant and scalable data processing integrations using AWS.Configured S3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently accessed data based on requirement.Good working experience on submitting the Spark jobs which shows the metrics of the data which is used for Data Quality Checking.Working on building efficient data pipelines that transform high volume data into a format used for analytical, fraud prevention and ML use cases.Extensively used Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, Reports, Alerts and Dashboards.Excellent knowledge of source control management concepts such as Branching, Merging, Labeling/Tagging and Integration, with tool like Git.Performing Data Quality checks like row count, schema validation, Hash key validation for all data movement between applications.Avanade-Data EngineerBurlington,NC,08/2019-04/2020Responsible for designing and developing various analytical solutions for gaining analytical insights into large data sets by ingesting and transforming these datasets in the Big Data environment using technologies like Spark, Sqoop, Oozie, HIVE.Scheduling jobs to automate the process for regular executing jobs worked on using Oozie.Developed Oozie workflow schedulers to run multiple Hive and Pig jobs that run independently with time and data availability.Familiar with data architecture including data ingestion pipeline design, Hadoop information architecture, data modeling and data mining,machine learning and advanced data processing.All the projects which I have worked for are Open Source Projects and has been tracked using JIRA.Parallel copying of files between various clusters using Distcp, Kafka in Hadoop.Ascend Learning-Data Scientist InternMemphis,TN,09/2018-12/2018Acquire, clean, integrate, analyze and interpret disparate datasets using a variety of statistical data analysis and data visualization methodologies, reporting and authoring findings where appropriate.Developed Linear Mixed Effects Models for Boston Ed-fi dataset to estimate the teacher contribution to the student test scores.Random intercept model which utilized a pre-post-test design and included fixed effects for student demographics and a growth model where students were nested by time (random slope and intercept) and teacher was tested.Generated various Clustering models for entire West Virginia department of education and evaluated cluster’s performance.Verizon-Big Data Engineer,,01/2014-07/2017Identify customer's digital analytical needs and engage with customer and principal architects daily, understand the business requirements for big data analytical solutions and break down large scale requirements into detailed system specifications.Moving data to HDFS framework using SQOOP from Teradata, SQL Server.Good working experience on Hadoop tools related to Data warehousing like Hive, Pig and also involved in extracting the data from these tools on to the cluster using Sqoop.Solved performance issues in Hive with understanding of joins, groups, bucketing, partitions and working on them using HiveQL.Deployed programs written in PySpark to run Spark MLlib, for analytics and reduced customers churn rate by 25%.
SkillsPython 3.x, R, SQLHadoop, Apache SparkHive, Pig, Kafka, Sqoop, OozieTeradata, SnowflakeAmazon S3,EMR,LambdaGit, Jenkins, SplunkMS OfficeMicrosoft Visual C#.NET>>. The result is, No Fit

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