Business Analyst [Albany , NY, 12203], United States 7 - 15 Years Contract Job Description For more details, please connect with Kajal Verma at kajalv@vgroupinc.com or call at 609-564-2786. End Client: State of New York Job Title: Business Analyst (Expert) Duration: 30 Months Location: Albany, NY 12203 (Hybrid – 50% Telecommuting Allowed) Position Type: Contract Hours Per Week: 40 Interview Type: Webcasting (Candidate must be on camera) Ceipal ID: SNY_BA887_KV Job Code: HBITS-08-14887 Department: Information Technology Services (ITS) Scope of Project This position supports the NYS Gaming Mainframe Decommissioning Modernization Project. The agency is seeking a senior Business Analyst with deep expertise in business analysis methodologies, driving complex technology projects. The selected candidate will excel at eliciting requirements, designing solutions, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical implementations, frequently leading strategic initiatives and mentoring junior analysts. Responsibilities: - Provide guidance throughout the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). - Identify and scope the stated business problem, provide guidance and recommend/execute best approach to problem. - Work as a liaison to stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts to elicit, analyze, communicate, validate and verify the requirements for complex changes to current business processes, policies and information systems and for the development of new business processes, policies and information systems. - Convey the demands of software users to the developers and ensure understanding of requirements clearly articulated artifacts. - Create as-is and to-be business process flows to ensure that the implemented business process and supporting software meets agency needs. - Conduct requirements workshops and Joint Application Sessions (JAD) with agency subject matter experts as one of the many techniques to be used to elicit requirements. - Create business requirements documents, context diagrams, business requirements document (BRD), system "as-is" and "to be" states, system specifications, use cases and workflow diagrams, report and screen mockups, swim lane diagrams, prototypes. - Ensure that artifacts required by ITS governance process and Secure Systems Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) are created and support the project scope. - Manage requirements through the life of the contract using a requirements management plan and traceability to ensure coverage between the source of each requirement and the test case(s) it will be tested by. - In coordination with project team and sponsor(s), leads defect testing, coordination, and remediation with customer. Required Skills: - 84 Months Experience in MS Access and SharePoint, documenting mainframe terminal emulator or console-based applications, code low code systems such as Dynamics 365, Salesforce, or OutSystems. - 84 Months Experience facilitating requirement workshops, JAD sessions and structured walkthroughs, performing impact analysis to assess the potential effects of changes on other applications and reports and risk assessments to mitigate issues. - 60 Months Experience creating test plans and test cases and working with users on User Acceptance Testing. - 84 Months Experience managing requirements throughout the Requirements Management Lifecycle, including creation and execution of a Requirements Management Plan, requirements traceability, establishing requirements baselines and managing requirements change control. - 60 Months Experience documenting another agency or company licensing system. - MBA or MS in Business Analytics. - Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP). V Group Inc. is a NJ-based IT Services and Products Company with its business strategically categorized in various Business Units including Public Sector, Enterprise Solutions, Professional Services, Ecommerce, Projects, and Products. Within Public Sector business unit, we cater IT Professional Services to Federal, State and Local. We have multiple awards/ contracts with 30+ states, including but not limited to NY, CA, FL, GA, MD, MI, NC, OH, OR, CO, CT, TN, PA, TX, VA, NM, VT, and WA. If you are considering applying for a position with V Group, or in partnering with us on a position, please feel free to contact me for any questions you may have regarding our services and the advantages we can offer you as a consultant.

• Determine business requirements, focusing on a solution or part of a solution, and document them. • Explore solution-related risks, external factors, assumptions, constraints, etc. • Suggest design options and improvements for the To Be state of a solution. • Conduct stakeholder analysis (roles, responsibilities, influence, attitude, preferences for the identified internal and external stakeholders). • Outline communication rules, escalation path, and keep up to date with the BA-related meetings schedule. • Prepare for and conduct elicitation sessions using different techniques and their combinations (e.g., surveys, observations, group interviews, document analysis, interface analysis, etc.) • Explain the business context of a solution to the development team and other relevant stakeholders. • Discuss solution requirements and design options with the team, and communicate outcomes to the client (incl. business context, tech dependencies, constraints, risks, benefits, and opportunities). • Escalate requirements conflicts to the relevant stakeholders and track their resolutions. • Work on both functional and non-functional requirements specification and documentation (e.g., user story with acceptance criteria, use-cases, feature document, quality attribute scenario, etc.) • Support both functional and non-functional requirements with appropriate models and visuals (e.g., diagrams, matrices, mockups, wireframes, calculation models). • Verify both functional and non-functional requirements and models with the team and client. • Create a verification checklist if needed. • Validate both functional and non-functional requirements against the business needs, goals, and objectives of a particular solution. • Outline scope boundaries of a module or feature (e.g., in- and out-of-scope, functional decomposition, use case diagrams, models, etc.) • Prioritize solution requirements using simple classification techniques. • Use traceability to ensure requirements coverage and to analyze requirements changes. • Obtain stakeholders' approval for solution requirements. • Maintain solution requirements and their attributes. • Assess the impact of the identified requirements changes, document and communicate changes and their implications to relevant stakeholders. • Collect feedback on implemented solution or solution component using multiple sources of information: demo, UAT, defects, user support requests, etc.

• Develop and maintain strategic roadmap for Partner capabilities enhancements and initiatives • Drive Partner Capabilities system roadmap evolution to support strategic objectives • Align with Go-to-Market teams on business priorities and policy implementation • Gather business requirements for new enhancements and initiatives • Serve as primary subject matter expert and escalation point for designated Partner capabilities • Manage system improvement lifecycle from discovery to implementation with stakeholder alignment • Implement data governance processes to ensure system performance and data integrity • Establish KPIs (adoption rates, SLAs, support metrics) to identify optimization opportunities • Troubleshoot and resolve system defects and technical issues • Monitor system workflows to ensure stability and optimal performance • Create and maintain comprehensive system documentation and logical workflows • Coordinate cross-functional documentation of processes and Partner integration workflows • Collaborate with IT on requirements, documentation, user stories, testing, and training • Lead change management, including training materials and transition documentation

• Configuring, administering, and supporting Veeva Vault RIM environments across the Registrations, Submissions, Publishing, and Archive modules for client engagements. • Delivering implementation, migration, and ongoing managed services support that keeps client RIM environments compliant, reliable, and continuously improved. • Translating evolving regulatory and eCTD requirements into system configuration changes in partnership with the Regulatory Intelligence Practice Lead. • Acting as the technical point of contact for client-reported issues, configuration requests, and release management activities. • Configure and maintain Vault objects: document types, fields, page layouts, picklists, and object hierarchies within Vault RIM. • Design and configure lifecycle and workflow states, entry/exit actions, user actions, and role-based state transitions. • Build and maintain security profiles, permission sets, and role-based access matrices within the Vault Admin console. • Support data migration and bulk record management using Vault Loader, including data mapping, transformation, and load validation. • Configure and maintain Vault-to-Vault and third-party integrations via Vault REST/SOAP APIs and SFTP-based data exchanges (e.g., Safety, Quality, ERP systems). • configure RIM Registrations: application/product hierarchies, registration and license record structures, and health authority correspondence tracking. • Configure RIM Submissions: Submission Content Plans, eCTD lifecycle metadata, sequence structures, and document-to-section mapping. • Configure RIM Publishing: rendition profiles, binder/output templates, and publishing configuration supporting eCTD and NeeS output. • Manage sandbox refreshes, regression testing, and release notes review for Veeva's biannual release cycles. • Coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT) and promotion of configuration changes from sandbox to production. • Triage, troubleshoot, and resolve Tier 2/3 support tickets for client-managed RIM environments. • Perform periodic system health checks and proactively identify configuration or performance risks. • Document configuration specifications, business requirements, and SOPs for client-facing and internal use. • Support end-user training and enablement on Vault RIM functionality.