Business Analyst

Job Summary - Why you’ll love this position

Location: Office of State Courts Administrator, Jefferson City, MO

The salary reflected represents the base pay for this position and does not include any differential for time-of-service pay for state tenure.

Why you'll love this position:

A position with the Office of State Courts Administrator provides you the opportunity to work on a variety of projects and work in a collaborative and innovative environment with a variety of exceptional, hardworking people and to gain a valuable and rewarding career. It takes many types of talent to advance the mission of the Missouri Judiciary and to keep operations running smoothly. We have opportunities for individuals seeking meaningful work in providing administrative, business and information technology services to the Missouri courts.

We are recruiting to fill a Business Analyst position to perform work analyzing organizational needs; designing alternative workflow solutions; determining and documenting requirements and formats; and working with Information Technology Services, Court Business Services and Administrative Services staff to develop, test and rollout proposed solutions.

Responsibilities - What you’ll do

• Gather, analyze, and document business process areas, identifying opportunities for process improvement and operational efficiency.
• Translate business requirements into clearly written, concise and easy to understand functional requirements that thoroughly explains complex issues, processes, procedures, changes and proposed solutions.
• Create process flows, concept document, requirement document and functional specifications.
• Ability to analyze business data to support design decisions.
• Present concepts and design solutions to committees for approval.
• Collaborate with development team, business teams, end users to deliver solutions.
• Develop and implement quality assurance tests for both manual and automated testing.
• Support user acceptance testing and implementation strategy.
• Monitor project progress and ensure solutions align with business objectives.

Qualifications - All you need for success

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a related field

Additional experience above the minimum stated may be substituted on a year for year basis for the required education.

• Ability to analyze policies, procedures and operations; organize their component parts into system specifications, databases and/or programs; and adapt them to an automated system.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to elicit requirements using different techniques
• Ability to create and understand process diagrams, flowcharts and business models.
• Ability to identify and define scope, objectives and functionality of a project
• Ability to translate technical terminology into easy-to-understand terms.
• Ability to translate business processes into information technology requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Working knowledge of relational database design
• Working knowledge of structured query language (SQL)
• Working knowledge of the general operating principles and capabilities of computer hardware and software
• Working knowledge of software frameworks used by the Information Technology Services Division

Job Details - More reasons to love this position

The State of Missouri offers an excellent benefits package that includes a defined pension plan, generous amounts of leave and holiday time, and eligibility for health insurance coverage. Your total compensation is more than the dollars you receive in your paycheck. More information regarding employment and benefits can be found here: OSCA Benefits. To review an interactive total compensation calculator, click the following link: Compensation Calculator

Contact Details - If you have questions or require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process please contact:

Please send inquiries regarding this position or questions regarding employment with the Office of State Courts Administrator to: [email protected]

The State of Missouri is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to developing and maintaining a talented workforce.