DBHDS - Business Analyst 4 w/Power Automate/ Power BI exp - Calsoft Labs

Short Description:
Technical Sr BA
Duration: 6 months with potential extension
Hybrid schedule: 1 day/week on site required w/monthly requirement to attend on site mtg the second Tuesday of each month (and add'l days at management discretion).

MAX VENDOR RATE: ***

Complete Description:
Duration: 6 months w/possibility to extend past 6/30/25 if required

Hybrid schedule: 1 day/week on site required w/monthly requirement to attend on site mtg the second Tuesday of each month (and add'l days at management discretion).

Parking is not provided for contractors.

ABOUT THE ROLE

DBHDS is seeking a Technical Business Analyst with strong business analysis and Power Automate/ Power BI skills. The best candidate will have proven success producing solutions and results under required timelines. They also need to possess the energy to thrive in a fast-paced environment and the ability to effectively multitask.

Daily Responsibilities: To perform technical business and systems analysis to process new intakes as they are submitted to assess alignment with DBHDS Enterprise Architecture and provide leadership in business solutions for the agency. To document business cases, automate manual business processes and develop metrics and reports for transparency.
- The right candidate will have proven experience in working closely with business users, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to understand the business drivers, needs, and pain points, creating compelling business cases with accurate cost and effort estimation, and translating these into technical specifications and design the most appropriate solutions.
- Ability to work independently with management and business users gathering and delivering on requirements with high attention to detail, and focused on the timely completion of deliverables.
- Experience in creating visualizations and reports for requested projects.
- Design and develop dashboards, scorecards, charts, pivot tables, reports, and reporting systems according to the business requirements.
- Digest project requirements, devise BI solutions, and provide estimates for accomplishing the solution.
- Support business users with their own dashboard/report development, including troubleshooting existing reports, updating data sources, and publishing to on-prem and cloud report servers.
- Proven abilities to take initiative and be innovative in solution design.
- Analytical mind with a problem-solving aptitude.
- Comfortable in communicating both negative and positive implications of business user requests and decisions and able to provide alternative options.
- Intellectual curiosity and the ability to question thought partners across functional areas.
- Ability to author context diagrams, data flow diagrams, business process diagrams, and other artifacts typically used in system/solution design.



Required / Desired Skills and Amount of Experience:
Overall IT experience in data analysis, data management, and report development Required 8 Years
Microsoft Power BI development Required 6 Years
Microsoft Power Automate Required 6 Years
Microsoft Forms, populating SharePoint lists and creating attachments Required 2 Years
MS Office applications including Visio Required 6 Years
Experience working in both waterfall & agile Required 5 Years
Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) Highly desired
IT Project Management experience Desired
Questions:
Question 1 Commonwealth of Virginia security policies prohibit the use of offshore IT contractors. Do you attest to the fact that your candidate will physically reside within the US for the duration of the assignment?
Question 2 Please list candidate's email address.
Question 3 In what city and state does your candidate current reside? If you put Richmond and the candidates phn# and locations on resume do not reflect they are local to RVA then PLEASE upload either a recent (local) utility bill or driver's license with their name and local RVA address to confirm this. Do this AT TIME OF SUBMIITAL as I may not have time to revisit their submittal on the day resumes are due to the mgr.
Question 4 Hybrid schedule required: 1 day/week on site required w/monthly requirement to attend on site mtg the second Tuesday of each month (and add'l days at management discretion). Does your candidate agree to this arrangement?
Question 5 This is not a typical BA role -- Power BI development and Power Automate exp are both required for consideration. Please HIGHLIGHT their Power BI and Power Automate exp on their resume or they will be bypassed.