Business Analyst / Consultant

About This Role

Lead discovery and analysis for the ePermitting Discovery Project, evaluating DNR's existing permitting landscape and defining requirements for a future ePermitting solution. Focus on stakeholder facilitation, current-state documentation, and producing business, functional, and non-functional requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and analysis of current-state permitting processes across multiple DNR programs
• Identify and document existing permitting applications, tools, and workflows
• Facilitate stakeholder interviews, workshops, and validation sessions
• Document business, functional, and non-functional requirements for a future ePermitting solution
• Develop current-state and future-state process flows, models, and diagrams
• Identify opportunities for consolidation, standardization, and process improvement
• Document statutory, regulatory, and operational constraints impacting permitting
• Collaborate with IT teams to assess integration, data, security, and reporting needs
• Maintain discovery documentation and findings in alignment with PMO standards
• Support executive summaries, findings reports, and leadership presentations

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience performing business analysis on large-scale or complex IT initiatives
• Extensive experience leading discovery efforts involving multiple stakeholders, programs, and systems
• Proven ability to independently lead requirements elicitation through interviews, workshops, and document reviews
• Strong experience documenting current-state business processes, workflows, and system interactions
• Experience assessing and analyzing multiple applications supporting similar business functions
• Ability to identify commonalities, gaps, risks, and opportunities for standardization and modernization
• Advanced experience producing business, functional, and non-functional requirements to support future procurement or modernization
• Strong facilitation skills with the ability to manage competing perspectives and drive consensus
• Experience working within PMO standards, governance frameworks, and documentation templates
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both technical and executive audiences
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills to evaluate options, constraints, and impacts

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience performing business analysis on large-scale or complex IT initiatives

Nice to Have

• Experience with permitting, licensing, regulatory, or case management systems
• Prior experience in government or public-sector IT environments
• Familiarity with ePermitting platforms or workflow-based SaaS solutions
• Knowledge of enterprise integrations such as identity management, payments, GIS, document management, and reporting systems
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, SharePoint

Skills

* Required skills