Business Analyst

🚨 HIRING: Business Analyst – Advanced | State of South Carolina

📍 Location: Columbia, SC – Fully Onsite

📅 Contract: 12 Months | Possible Extension

💼 Engagement Type: Contract – W2.

🕐 Full-Time: ~40 hours/week

✈️ Light travel to County offices/facilities throughout Spartanburg County.

The State of South Carolina is seeking an experienced Business Analyst – Advanced to support a major Cybersecurity Program & Documentation Recovery initiative.

🔹 Key Responsibilities:

• Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and workshops

• Inventory and assess existing IT, security, infrastructure, application, and recovery documentation

• Document current-state processes, workflows, roles, dependencies, and handoffs

• Create process maps, workflow diagrams, inventories, matrices, and other BA artifacts

• Identify documentation gaps, process risks, and single points of knowledge

• Gather and prioritize requirements for SOPs, runbooks, knowledge articles, and recovery documentation

• Collaborate with Technical Writers and technical SMEs

• Maintain documentation backlogs, priorities, ownership, and dependencies

• Support documentation standards, governance, templates, and review cycles.

🔹 Required Qualifications:

✅ 10+ years of Business Analysis experience in complex IT/technology environments

✅ Strong requirements elicitation, interviewing, facilitation & stakeholder management

✅ Advanced Microsoft 365 experience – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint

✅ Strong Microsoft Visio experience for process/workflow/technical diagrams

✅ Experience working with technical SMEs across infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity, service delivery, or related IT areas

✅ Bachelor's degree in IT, Information Systems, Business, or related field OR equivalent professional experience.

⭐ Preferred:

• Documentation recovery / knowledge management / process standardization

• Cybersecurity, infrastructure, disaster recovery, BCP, or ITSM documentation

• SharePoint documentation repositories & governance

• ITIL, NIST, CIS, or similar frameworks

• Government or highly regulated environment experience

• CBAP, CCBA, PMI-PBA, PMP, or ITIL Foundation.

📌 Important Candidate Requirement:

Candidates must be current SC residents or willing to commute/relocate to South Carolina at their own expense before starting.