Senior business analyst [h1.location_city]

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

The Office of Innovation & Technology (OIT) is the central IT agency for the City of Philadelphia headed by the Chief Information Officer (CIO). OIT oversees all major information and communications technology initiatives for the City of Philadelphia - increasing the effectiveness of the information technology infrastructure, where the services provided are advanced, optimized, and responsive to the needs of the City of Philadelphia’s businesses, residents, and visitors. OIT responsibilities include : identifying the most effective approach for implementing new information technology directions throughout city government; improving the value of the city’s technology assets and the return on the city’s technology investments; ensuring data security continuity; planning for continuing operations in the event of disruption of information technology or communications services; and supporting accountable, efficient and effective government across every city department, board, commission and agency.

Job Description

The primary responsibility of this position is business analysis for the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Revenue. This includes web projects, applications and supporting functionality. The person in this position will partner with business stakeholders and project teams to conduct all the activities related to successfully gathering project requirements and participating in the discovery, requirements, design, development, deployment and operations phases of the web project, applications and supporting functionality.

Essential Functions

• Partner with business stakeholders and project teams to help identify, define, & translate business requirements into creative and practical solutions; act as a liaison between business stakeholders and the applications and other internal technology teams.
• Create high-level and detail-level documentation (process and business event models / diagrams) and specify systems and knowledge management solution requirements.
• Help define and develop project deliverables required to achieve targeted outcomes.
• Work directly with OIT operations, development resources and architects to communicate Agency / Department needs and to ensure compatibility and consistency with existing architectural and enterprise standards.
• Perform process reviews, document work flows and business requirements, and work with the project and program managers to see projects through to successful completion.
• Conduct reviews to ensure requirements documentation, design and other third party deliverables meet expectations.
• Test and quality assure changes, fixes, and enhancements to applications and related programs by the development team.
• Perform vendor evaluations for third party solutions.
• Define and manage data interfaces with third party vendors and internal systems.
• Assume system ownership of revenue applications for customizations, configurations (code setups), upgrades, issue escalation, functionality expertise as well as general user questions / training.
• Work in concert with the Capital Project teams upon systems implementation to ensure the seamless transfer from capital projects to in-house operations.
• Manage projects and initiatives within assigned business areas / systems.
• Champion business process improvements and provide in depth analysis within business areas.

Competencies, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Ability to :

Knowledge of :

Qualifications

Any equivalent combination of education and experience determined to be acceptable by the Revenue IT Director.

Additional Information

Salary Range :  $55,000 - $60,000

Salary cannot exceed $60,000

All applications must include a cover letter. Applications without a cover letter will be considered incomplete.

Did you know?

Effective May 22, 2023, vaccinations are  no longer required  for new employees that work in non-medical, non-emergency or patient facing positions with the City of Philadelphia. As a result, only employees in positions providing services that are patient-facing medical care (ex : Nurses, doctors, emergency medical personnel), must be fully vaccinated.

The City of Philadelphia is an Equal Opportunity employer and does not permit discrimination based on race,

ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, source of income, familial status, genetic information or domestic or sexual violence victim status. If you believe you were discriminated against, call the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations at 215-686-4670 or send an email to faqpchr @phila.gov. For more information, go to : Human Relations Website :

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