Functional Architect

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Job description

Functional Architect

Remote

Description:

DSI is looking for a Functional Architect with Project Management, Business Analyst, and Quality Assurance experience.

Responsibilities:

Gathering documenting requirements, testing, user guides, assisting PM with planning and monitoring tasks.

Expert for OnBase, a defined set of applications or a portfolio of related applications as needed.

Providing expertise in the business process supported by the application to prepare and review designs, recommend improvements, and provide guidance during the testing process.

Helps the Programmers establish a clear understanding of the business functional requirements and either creates the functional design to meet the requirements or reviews and approves the designs written by the Programmers.

Must understand all aspects of their specific application(s), and the underlying business process.

Plan, analyze, and define high- level software strategies and solutions, manage efforts for enhancements, regular maintenance and outages to define technical requirements and long-range plans for meeting customer requirements.

Will work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and to recommend and deliver solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

Analyzes, determines, and documents functional requirements.

Provides definition on how the applications will support business requirements.

Conducts impact analyses of business requirements on the system.

Works with Technical Support in defining software/hardware requirements.

Gathers and interprets user requirements into design specifications.

Participates in design of application.

Participates in test reviews.

Leads and facilitates test planning.

Communicates accurate and useful status updates.

Strong communication skills; both written and spoken.

Acts as the application(s) functional expert; providing expertise in the business process supported by the application.

Provides detailed definition.

on how the applications will support business requirements.

Plans and develops user interface strategy.

Directs and participates in design of application.

Interprets and understands user requirements/design specifications.

Provides detailed definition on how the applications will support business requirements.

Reviews and understands teamwork plan.

Identifies and tracks issues, risks and action items affecting own work and work of team.

Anticipates and resolves issues specific to the team.

Determines time estimates and schedule for own work and resolve issues in a timely manner.

Requirements:

Strong organizational skills.

Willing to assist with training, development of user guides or other Business Analyst.

activities, when necessary.

Experience in Project Management Methodologies and project lifecycle

Experience creating user stories, tasks, and tracking defects.

Experience with Manual Testing practices and software, such as Microsoft Test Manager.

Experience with System, Integration and User.

Acceptance testing.

Experience participating in Facilitated Workshops for requirements analysis.

Experience creating workflows.

Knowledge of formal requirements gathering methodologies.

Experience developing Business Requirements to include project initiation documents, what the needed achievements will be, and the quality measures.

Experience developing Functional requirements - describe what the system, process, or product/service must do in order to fulfill the business requirements.

Experience developing User (stakeholder) requirements - possess the ability to document and interpret the important part of the deliverables, and the needs of the stakeholders. This deliverable can also reflect how the product will be designed and developed and will define how test cases must be formulated.

Experience developing Quality-of-service (non-functional) requirements - requirements that do not perform a specific function for the business requirement but are needed to support the functionality. For example: performance, scalability, quality of service

(QoS), security and usability.

Experience developing Report Specifications - define the purpose of a report, its justification, attributes and columns, owners and runtime parameters.

Experience developing Requirements Traceability Matrix - a cross matrix for recording the requirements through each stage of the requirements gathering process.

4 years experience with project management required.

4 years experience with requirements gathering.

4 years experience with developing Business Requirements documentation.

4 years experience conducting full system testing with overall functionality.

4 years experience with OnBase or FileNet.

Desired Skills:

Prior Commonwealth experience.

Experience in working on a Scrum Team or Agile environment.

About Diversified Systems

Founded in 1990, Diversified Systems is an award-winning Technology Services corporation providing all levels of IT project consulting services nationwide. DSI is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with regional offices in the American Midwest and East Coast. We offer our consultants a number of flexible and competitive compensation benefit packages.

Diversified Systems is committed to the principles of equal employment. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

DSI values authenticity and is committed to making sure our employees and partners are valued and respected. At DSI, we believe building a diverse culture is important because we know when people work together, we can achieve better results as a team. DSI realizes that everyone comes from various backgrounds. We celebrate these differences because our employees are our greatest asset as we strive to best meet the needs of those we serve. As part of our ongoing efforts, DSI is focused on advancing equality, diversity, and inclusion by setting high standards to continually evolve our culture. This includes but is not limited to recruiting, community involvement, client delivery, and career development.

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