Job: Business Analyst --- Remote Job --- 1+ Year Contract

Job Title: Business Analyst
Location: Hartford, Connecticut 06103 (Remote Job)
Duration: 1+ Year Contract

Job Description:
• We are seeking a Business Analyst with deep grants experience to play a critical role in the analysis, design, and implementation of this new solution.
• The Business Analyst will work closely with our state agencies, IT teams, and the selected vendor to define business requirements, evaluate configuration options and workflows, and establish a repeatable playbook to onboard new agencies over time.
• This role requires strong knowledge of grants lifecycle management, enterprise solution analysis, and stakeholder alignment.
Key Responsibilities
• Elicit and document detailed business, functional, and non-functional requirements across state agencies
• Analyze existing grant-related processes and tools to identify commonalities, differences, and opportunities to standardize
• Translate complex requirements into clear process flows, user stories, configuration documentation, and other requirement artifacts
• Evaluate selected vendor solution capabilities to determine what is configurable vs. standard, communicate limitations and trade-offs, and make suggestions on enterprise standards
• Act as the primary liaison between business users, technical teams, and the vendor to ensure solution alignment with business needs
• Support change management and user adoption by assessing current state business process flows, defining future state process flows, and identifying solution gaps and/or training needs
• Assist in testing, validation, and user acceptance efforts to ensure the solution meets business goals
• Assist in developing a governance plan and framework for managing enterprise-wide changes
• Assist in developing a repeatable implementation and requirements playbook for new agencies to onboard onto the grants enterprise level management system
Required Experience
• 7+ years of business analysis experience with large-scale technology implementations
• Experience with public sector grants processes is required, including grant application, review, award, monitoring, and reporting
• Experience implementing standardized enterprise solutions across disparate systems, processes, or organizations
• Demonstrated success working with or implementing COTS/SaaS platforms
• Proven experience coordinating across multiple government agencies or large stakeholder groups
• Experience with vendor-driven solutions, including evaluating standard out of the box functionality and configuration/customization options
Required Skills
• Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and critical thinking skills, with ability to synthesize large volumes of data and complex processes into clear requirements
• Proven ability to lead discovery workshops, surface misalignment, uncover unexpressed dependencies or expectations, and drive clarity on complex or conflicting needs
• Ability to build trust, advise stakeholders, and facilitate consensus on acceptable solutions or options
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to “zoom in and out” – balancing a deep understanding of the detailed requirements with understanding the broader enterprise strategy and goals
• High level of initiative, ownership, and organization, with expert written and verbal communication skills
• Strong documentation skills, with expertise in a variety of business analysis tools (Microsoft Office Suite, JIRA, Confluence, Visio, Miro, etc.)

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