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.) Apply tot his job