"Alerted.org

Job summary:

Title:

Business Analyst - Hybrid

Location:

Lansing, MI, United States

Length and terms:

Long term - W2 or C2C

Position created on 07/30/2025 03:25 pm

Job description:

* Very long term project initial PO for 1 year and usually the project goes for 3/5 years with this customer ***Hybrid***Interview will be conducted via Microsoft Teams, 2nd interviews will be held in person.*

***Work location is hybrid, 2 days in office is required (Tuesday & Wednesday preferred) and 3 days working from home.

Description:

Seeking a Senior Business Analyst to assist with the Department of Education (MDE) Grants Management System known as NexSys. The MDE Grants Management System is comprised of about 100+ different grant applications that is responsible for over 2 billion dollars of payments to state educational entities.

Business Analyst:

We are looking for someone who understands and has experience with the software development lifecycle as they will be managing work requests to support operational support needs for web applications and gather requirements for project initiatives. This role is the liaison between the technical team and the business client. This will be about 90% of the time for this resource. This is a senior position so the selected candidate will possess leadership skills including but not limited to the ability to delegate tasks to the team, effective communication and being able to lead a team of business analysts and be comfortable leading requirement meetings with business and other technical resources.

Tasks:

+ Facilitates meetings with the technical team and business client.

+ Gathers requirements and project specifications by leading requirement sessions independently

+ Maintain backlog of work items in Azure DevOps

+ Must operate in a hybrid (Agile/Waterfall) environment and actively manage requirements, change requests and testing needs.

+ Manage project tasks, timelines, and communication between business product owner and development team associated with the Change Management lifecycle

+ Track sprints and ticket progress in Azure DevOps

+ Ensures the team is adhering to the department change management policies

+ Acts as a liaison with State of Michigan auditors

+ Maintains documentation on the project SharePoint Site.

+ Must be self starter, detail oriented and a critical thinker

+ Provide management with information such as project status reports and resource demand projections.

+ Work with team, management, and business partners to continuously improve the process.

Required Skills:

+ Bachelors Degree

+ Experience in gathering and documenting business requirements 5+ years

+ Experience in a role, as a business analyst, supporting a software development project, in the past 5 years

+ Ability to lead meetings, conduct training & information sessions, communicate at a level appropriate to the audience, make oral and written reports and presentations 5+ years

+ Proficiency with MS Office 3+ years

+ Experience working as a liaison between the development team and project manager or business client in a software development project 2+ years

+ Experience with Azure DevOps including creating User Stories and queries 1+ years

Preferred Skills:

+ Experience with Federal, State or local grant management systems 1+ years

+ Experience with Power Platform services including Power BI and Power Automate 6+ months

Contact the recruiter working on this position:

The recruiter working on this position is Singaram Saikiran(Shaji Team)

His/her contact number is His/her contact email is [email protected]

Our recruiters will be more than happy to help you to get this contract.