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Business Analyst

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Posted with Limited AccessYesLimited Access Period Ending DateTitleBusiness AnalystPosting NumberS01309Full-Time/Part-TimeFull-timeTypical Hours Per Week38.75Regular, Temporary or TermRegularIf temporary or term, enter anticipated end dateBenefits Eligible?YesHourly/SalariedSalariedBand/LevelSP3BHiring Minimum$57,025DepartmentInfo. Technology Svcs.LocationMiddlebury, VT CampusHire contingent upon successful completion of the following post-offer screeningCriminal Background Check Position Summary

Position Summary

Position is on-site at our Middlebury, VT campus.

The Business Analyst partners with stakeholders seeking to improve business processes, implement new technical solutions, or replace existing technical solutions.

The Business Analyst performs needs analysis, requirements gathering, creates technical documentation and acts as a liaison between customers and technical staff.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

This posting is currently accepting internal applicants only. Internal applicants are active Middlebury College employees and their spouse or partner.

Offer is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check.

Utilizes knowledge of Middlebury technical stack and the software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure offered solutions fit into ITS vision and direction while meeting client goals.

Analyzes business processes and workflow through a technical lens, seeking to drive efficiencies and innovation that technology may provide.

Effective and efficient analysis of data within databases (using SQL), spreadsheets, or other formats.

Provides Quality Assurance (QA) plans or testing for solutions developed for clients.

Ensure minimal disruption of delivery of services and minimal risk of data breaches by implementing industry best practices and meeting security and compliance guidelines.

Assisting clients with planning technical improvements and acting as a technical liaison between clients and developers.

Perform other duties as assigned to assist the department in maintaining its mission and deliver required services.

Supports effort, in collaboration with management, to develop overall strategy for aligning objectives, activities and outcomes across projects.

Assists with assessing effectiveness/success of project outcomes/deliverables on a short- and long-term basis.

Engages others in developing innovative solutions to important, highly-complex strategic and operating problems; cross-department and divisional considerations are often present.

Works independently and as a member of a team

Develops and documents complex business processes and workflows.

Develops business process and workflow diagrams

Designs and optimizes complex business processes and workflows

Partners with Enterprise Architecture group to develop complex technology solutions to support enterprise business processes

General Responsibilities

*Use ITS’ Mission (http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/technology/its/mission), Vision and Strategic Direction
(http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/technology/its/vision) as guiding principles to shape your activities and objectives.
*Use ITS’ Values (http://www.middlebury.edu/offices/technology/its/values) as guiding principles to shape how we work and conduct ourselves as a member of ITS.
*Identify opportunities for professional development and continually seek to add value to Middlebury by enhancing your skills and expertise.
*Must demonstrate a willingness and proficiency for learning new development environments, tools, frameworks, and languages.
*Must be able to work cooperatively with other technical and functional users and accept direction from supervisors.
Key Relationships
*With Supervisor
*With members of workgroup and team(s) within ITS
*With workgroup managers and key staff within ITS
*With faculty, staff, students and other customers and partners of ITS
*Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor’s degree in technology field or equivalent experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

*Extensive knowledge of the principles, design and implementation of IT applications, systems and infrastructure.
*Ability to apply best practices in business process improvement
*Knowledge of best practices for testing and quality assurance.
*Excellent SQL skills
*Strong technical writing skills
*Strong technical aptitude
*Strong analytical skills
*Strong written and verbal communication skills
*Knowledge of generally accepted best practice project management skills
*Business Analysis, requirements gathering, consultative engagements with customers
*Familiar with best practice security protocols and safe computing practices.

Experience

*5-8 years of progressive experience with demonstrated success in providing Enterprise IT Services and/or Business Process Analysis, Development, and Improvement is required.
*Experience in the design, implementation and hands-on management of substantial and complex IT applications, systems and infrastructure is desired.
*Experience with or extensive knowledge of data integration techniques and technologies is desired.
*2-4 years experience working extensively with a variant of SQL is desired.

Physical Demands Posting Information

Close DateOpen Until FilledYesSpecial Instructions to Applicants

This posting is currently accepting internal applicants only. Internal applicants are active Middlebury College employees and their spouse or partner.

Offer is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check.

Recommendations

Some postings require contact information for reference providers for confidential letters of recommendation.

Recommendation Letter RequirementsSupplemental Questions for Posting

Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).

  1. * Are you (or your spouse/partner) an active Middlebury College Employee?
    • Yes
    • No
  2. * Please enter the College ID number of the active Middlebury College employee (you or your spouse or partner) if applicable.

    (Open Ended Question)

Applicant DocumentRequired Documents
  1. Cover Letter
  2. Resume/C V
Optional Documents

    Organization

    Working at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

    Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, a graduate school of Middlebury College, provides international professional education in areas of critical importance to a rapidly changing global community, including international policy and management, translation and interpretation, language teaching, sustainable development, and non-proliferation. We prepare students from all over the world to make a meaningful impact in their chosen fields through degree programs characterized by immersive and collaborative learning, and opportunities to acquire and apply practical professional skills. Our students are emerging leaders capable of bridging cultural, organizational, and language divides to produce sustainable, equitable solutions to a variety of global challenges.

    In 2010, the Institute became a graduate school of Middlebury College. Middlebury is known worldwide for its leadership in undergraduate language instruction and international studies, and features both summer language immersion programs and Schools Abroad in 16 countries and 37 cities around the globe. Middlebury is also home to the oldest environmental studies program in the nation.

    Monterey and Middlebury share much more than a common interest in cross-cultural communication and the environment, though—we share a commitment to making a difference in the world, and are building a truly global network of programs for future leaders in areas from translation and interpretation to environmental policy, economic development to language education, conflict resolution to sustainable business.

    Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey offers graduate programs that prepare innovative professionals to provide leadership in cross-cultural, multilingual environments. Practical skills, collaborative processes, and innovative approaches are defining features of a Monterey Institute education. The Institute’s unique "Monterey Way" learning model ensures that students are learning through firsthand experiences in more than one language. Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey learners are problem solvers and process masters, building sustainable, equitable solutions for a global community through our interdisciplinary blend of business, policy, and language.

     

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