Sr. Business Analyst (8+Years)
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Location :DC.
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The Knowledge Management unit of the Financial and Private Sector Development (FPD) vice presidency is seeking a technical requirements analyst to join the IT team working on GIA Data Administration Coding System.
The Vice Presidency’s Knowledge Management & Outreach Unit (FPDKM) manages a set of public database-driven web sites supporting public policy reform among World Bank Group client countries. The databases include indicators on the quality of regulation in over 183 countries, surveys of business opinion, and law libraries. One of these sites – the Doing Business Database – is the most highly requested public database. Besides managing these databases, the Unit uses social and multimedia tools in innovative ways. The Unit also includes event management specialists and, overall, reflects a dynamic and fast-paced working environment. Overall the Unit manages an annual web traffic volume of 3 million visits and 8 million page views, accessing 9 million data points and 7500 documents, and runs 50 to 70 events for thousands of reform stakeholders around the world each year. Group's development effort is being transformed by the smart use of data, and the oing Business project is one case in point. Ultimately development impact is measured in terms of creating jobs and business opportunities to reduce poverty. FPDKM supports the annual Doing Business survey cycle using 19,000 contributors worldwide. 17,000 surveys are sent out in 4 languages. Around 25% of these surveys are completed online, and this proportion is rising.
The FPDKM IT team recently received approval for the GIA Data Administration Coding System project. The objective of this capital project is to implement a coding system that consolidates data extracted from different sources, automates data processing and analysis, and provides upgraded reporting capabilities. The system would replace the largely manual Excel-based data management process in place, significantly reducing error rates and data inconsistencies, ensuring timely completion of data analyses, and freeing the staff to focus more on value-added activities. The new system when in place by December 2011, should be designed to broadly leverage suite of Global Indicator projects like Doing Business, Sub National and Investing Across Borders who have similar coding sheets. FPD intends to consolidate more indicator work in GIA, and a coding system would provide a flexible and scalable platform which could be readily extended to these other data-intensive projects, thus providing a greater payoff for the investment. Given the project scale and maturity both within the World Bank group and for external audience, there is a need for skilled requirements analyst with good time management, communication and requirement gathering skills.
As the time frame for the requirements gathering is ten weeks, the position will suit a highly motivated and versatile candidate who can demonstrate relentless attention to detail and who can communicate with non technical clients. The candidate require strong theoretical background and substantial experience in information technology, good data collection and interviewing capabilities, strong analytical skills to critically evaluate gathered information, and high proficiency in the development of business/technical requirements documentation for large-scale information databases.
Responsibilities
Under the general supervision of a senior IT project manager in FPDKM, the requirements analyst will assume the following responsibilities:
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
• Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements. Specify requirements with an appropriate level of detail that will allow the development team to create architecture specifications and high-level design.
• Define quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements.
• Define high level measurable success indicators for the project.
• Lead requirements prioritization by providing sufficient information for the same requirements.
• Develop requirements documentation backed by a representative set of use cases.
• Review, validate, and finalize requirements documentation with relevant World Bank Group stakeholders , such as the GIA, FPDKM IT, Office of Enterprise Architect
Competencies
• Strong theoretical background and substantial experience in information technology, data integration requirements, and related work experience
• Strong interviewing skills with the ability to talk with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface essential requirements information.
• Analytical skills and the ability to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding, distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including proficiency in the development of requirements documentation.
• Strong communication (spoken and written) skills, including the ability to advise and train users in the use of complex systems/applications and effectively prepare specifications and other written reports/documentation in a clear, concise style
• Ability to organize, plan and implement work assignments, juggle competing demands and work under pressure of frequent and tight deadlines
• Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively in a team environment
Selection Criteria
• A Bachelor and/or Master of Science degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience. BS/BA is minimum education requirement.
• Minimum 5 years of work experience leading requirements gathering and analysis for IT web systems.
• Interviewing skills, to talk with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions with both technical and non-technical clients to surface essential requirements information
• Analytical skills, to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding, distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements
• Facilitation skills, to lead requirements elicitation workshops
• Observational skills, to validate data obtained via other techniques and expose new areas of unmet customer needs
• Writing skills, to communicate information effectively to customers, marketing, managers, and technical staff
• Organizational skills, to work with the vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and to cope with rapidly changing information
• Interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders
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