POSITION TITLE: DATA BUSINESS ANALYST (Official title: Business Systems Analyst II)
SALARY: 5,973.00 - $7420.00 Monthly
OPENING DATE: 4/17/2020
CLOSING DATE: Continuous
EXAM NUMBER: R9868D
TYPE OF RECRUITMENT: Open Competitive Job Opportunity
This position may close at any time based on needs of the Court. Applicants are encouraged to apply promptly.
Los Angeles Superior Court is seeking dynamic, well-qualified, and highly-motivated individuals to fill the position of Data Business Analyst (Official title: Business Systems Analyst II) within its Court Technology Services department based in Los Angeles, California.
The Data Business Analyst is the journey-level class in the business systems analyst class series. Incumbents provide support for court case management and other applications, including performing business process documentation and reengineering, working with users to identify needs for systems modifications and enhancements of moderate complexity, developing functional and programming specifications, testing new and revised programs to ensure accuracy and efficiency; providing training and troubleshooting and resolving applications and related hardware problems. Incumbents are responsible for analyzing requests for new programs and modifications to existing programs and determining feasibility based on current system functions and capabilities. Incumbents are also responsible for coordinating with programmers to ensure customer requirements are met. For a detailed job description, please click here. Please note the requirements in the job description may vary from the requirements in the bulletin. Applicants must meet the requirements stated in this bulletin.
SELECTION REQUIREMENTS: To qualify, you must meet one of the following options upon the final filing date of this bulletin:
OPTION I: Two years of experience in performing business process analyses at the level of Business Systems Analyst I working for the Los Angeles Superior Court.
OPTION II: Graduation from a four-year college or university* -AND- Four years of experience in performing user support, testing and related functions for case management systems and other business applications, at least two of which were at the level of Business Systems Analyst I.
Note: Credit for experience is given based on a 40-hour workweek. Part-time experience is credited on a part-time ratio, i.e., working 20 hours per week for two months equals one month of experience. No additional credit is given for overtime.
No out-of-class experience will be accepted.
Licenses; Certificates; Special Requirements: A valid California Class C driver's license or the ability to utilize an alternative method of transportation when needed to carry out job-related essential functions.
*Education Verification for option II: A legible copy of your college diploma -OR - transcript(s) (unofficial are acceptable) with the degree posted from the college or university must be submitted within 10 business days from application submission.
Documentation may be submitted as follows:
As an attachment to your on-line application. Attachment(s) must be in Microsoft Word or PDF format and should not exceed 10 MB; or,
As an email attachment to Max Penate at mpenate@lacourt.org. Please indicate in the subject line "Data Business Analyst - Degree Verification." Please include your first and last name and the examination title on the documentation.
Foreign studies must be evaluated by an academic credential evaluation agency and deemed to be equivalent to degrees from the United States. For a list of acceptable evaluation agencies, please visit www.naces.org or http://aice-eval.org/. Foreign studies submitted without acceptable evaluation will be rejected.
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS: The ideal candidate will possess the following desirable qualifications:
An advanced college degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, or a closely related field.
Strategies for gathering, reviewing, analyzing, and documenting system requirements.
Prioritize requirements and create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups.
Coordinate with users and development team members on systems development and enhancement projects to ensure successful implementation of software solutions.
Interview and engage with users and project stakeholders to decipher and obtain data requirements and processing needs regarding projects.
Develop conceptual and comprehensive business specifications documentation.
Create comprehensive test scenarios and ensure functionality by performing QA tests.
Confirm with development team that customer requirements are met.
Provide user application support and training.
Produce business process documentation describing project scope, analysis findings, and design requirements.
Make recommendations on proposed systems, software, upgrades, modifications, and solutions.
Exercise appropriate independent judgment and effectively respond to changing business needs throughout the system development life cycle.
Excellent written and oral communication skills throughout the system development life cycle.
Work effectively, independently and follow through on assignments.
Work effectively with clients, users and management team.
Experience with productivity tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Team Foundation Server.
Creating dashboards with PowerBI, Tableau or other software.
Experience in Financial concepts in a court setting.
Experience with relational databases and designing datasets to meet requirements.
Experience working with large sets of finance and/or HR data and familiarity with best practices for data cleanliness/integrity.
EXAMINATION INFORMATION:
PART I: Qualifying evaluation of education, training and experience based upon submitted application materials and supplemental questionnaire.
PART II: An online examination, weighted 100%, covering the areas listed below. No person may complete this assessment more than once every 12 months.
CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS - Covers analysis, building the system, data gathering methods, defining the system, documenting, problem analysis, user needs analysis, and validation.
INDUCTIVE REASONING - Covers the ability to draw inferences from and understand relationships between various concepts and working out patterns in a set of images.
VERBAL REASONING - Covers the ability to evaluate, analyze, interpret, and draw conclusions from written statements and oral information.
APPLICATION and FILING INFORMATION:
Applications may only be filed online. To learn how to apply online, please access the Online Employment Application Guide. Los Angeles Superior Court reserves the right to verify all submitted documentation prior to appointment. The Court will only consider completed applications submitted, along with the required documents, and will reject incomplete applications. A resume will not substitute for a fully completed employment application. To facilitate the full and proper consideration of your work experience, clearly specify what professional experience meets the required job qualifications. When listing your work experience, please specify the beginning and end dates for each job you held and describe your experience for each position.
Please provide a current and accurate e-mail address for the Court to communicate with you about this job opportunity. Human Resources staff will notify all applicants of their application status via e-mail. We recommend that you add info@governmentjobs.com to your e-mail address book to avoid the notification being filtered as spam mail.
Los Angeles Superior Court is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants with disabilities who require reasonable accommodations to participate in the recruitment process can contact the email address provided below. For additional employment information, please click here(Download PDF reader).
WHAT TO EXPECT NEXT: We will notify you of the outcome after each step of the recruitment process has been completed. Applicants who successfully pass each (and all) examination part(s) will be placed on an eligible list which will remain valid for up to one year. Other vacancies may be filled using this list.
Exam No.: R9868D Data Business Analyst
Applications may be submitted online at www.lacourt.org OR via the HR computer kiosk at Los Angeles Superior Court Human Resources Administration 111 N. Hill Street, Room 203 Los Angeles, CA 90012
Agency
Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles