The Business Analyst role is responsible for contributing to identifying, evaluating, and designing technology-based business solutions to help solve key business problems. They work with stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand business processes, workflows, data models, and other system artifacts. This role will help identify opportunities for process improvement and system enhancements and is responsible for documenting and reviewing technical specifications that define system requirements and articulate how systems will meet business goals. The incumbent is also responsible for helping apply system settings and options and will participate in the planning and execution of testing to ensure new or modified systems meet business requirements. The incumbent is knowledgeable in software development lifecycle methodologies and understands system testing and quality assurance principles. They are familiar with database management, SQL, web development technologies, and packaged software applications. They will support process modeling and requirements gathering and leverage this technical expertise to help develop and evaluate third-party solutions or technologies that support business process improvements. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring that system documentation, such as process diagrams, data dictionaries, user manuals, and training materials, are accurate and up-to-date. They will participate in monitoring system metrics such as uptime, response times, and error rates to drive system optimization and performance improvements.