Business Analyst, Geospatial

GFT is seeking a Business Analyst to join our Geosptial Team in either Baltimore, MD, Nashville, TN, or Richmond, VA! This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring regular attendance at the office.

Working on the geospatial team offers a unique opportunity to harness the latest geospatial technology and data analytics to drive operational efficiency and innovation. As part of our dynamic team, you'll collaborate on projects that enhance data management and provide actionable insights for diverse clients, transforming how organizations use data to meet their goals. Join us to help bring science and art to organizing, integrating, and visualizing information in a way that prioritizes collaboration and creates enterprise solutions. Discover some of our signature geospatial projects here.   

What you’ll be challenged to do:
This is an excellent career opportunity for an experienced, motivated Business Analyst who thrives in a collaborative team environment. As a Business Analyst, you will demonstratee experience with documenting complex business processes, eliciting business requirements, modeling business process, compiling use cases and user stories, and supporting the design of workflows and operations. You must thrive in a high energy environment, excel at working without significant supervision, be independently motivated, outgoing, diplomatic, detailed, schedule driven and accountable. 

In this capacity, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following: 

• Participate in requirements elicitation with client to define needs
• Document As-Is environment and business workflows
• Model business processes
• Support the compilation of To-Be environment and business workflows
• Participate in agile and waterfall software development lifecycles
• Author requirements, design, and training documentation
• Support training materials and support training class delivery based on varying client needs
• Work in multi-disciplinary project teams made up of software developers, business analysts, GIS analysts, technical managers, and business subject matter experts
• Participate in project team meetings with client mgmt. and other contractors
• Document meeting minutes, draft business needs assessments, and perform gap analysis
• Resolve problems within working teams and with clients
• Compile user stories with the requisite details and acceptance criteria
• Develop and execute test cases to confirm system requirements
• Generate mock-ups, wireframes, or related graphics to illustrate requirements or workflows.
• Work with developers to clarify requirements throughout the application development process

At GFT, a privately held AEC firm, we innovate where transportation, water, power, and buildings converge. We call this the Infrastructure of Life. We measure our success by the strength of our relationships – that’s why we’re the employer of choice for 5,000+ of the industry’s brightest engineers, planners, architects, inspectors, designers, and more.

Our clients choose us for our expertise and prefer us for our nimble approach, creativity, and personal touch. Backed by over a century’s experience, together we’re building a lasting legacy for future generations: stronger communities, a healthier planet, and better lives.

GFT: Ingenuity That Shapes Lives™ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veterans’ status or other characteristics protected by law.

Unsolicited resumes from third party agencies will be considered the property GFT.

GFT does require the successful completion of a criminal background check for all advertised positions. 

Sponsorship not offered for this position.

Location: Baltimore, MD; Richmond, VA; Nashville, TN
Core Business Hours: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Employment Status: Full-Time

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