Date Posted: 03/26/2026
Hiring Organization: Rose International
Position Number: 498972
Industry: Government/Staffing
Job Title: Programmer Analyst
Job Location: Lansing, MI, USA, 48933
Work Model: Hybrid
Work Model Details: Position will be hybrid, in office 2 days a week
Shift: Regular!
Employment Type: Temporary
FT/PT: Full-Time
Estimated Duration (In months): 13
Min Hourly Rate($): 65.00
Max Hourly Rate($): 70.00
Must Have Skills/Attributes: Agile, Design, Troubleshooting
Experience Desired: Business Analyst or similar experience (4 yrs); Experience Desired Agile (4 yrs); Experience using Azure Devops or similar tool for work item management and source control (2 yrs); Recent experience of working in an Agile development environment, e.g. Scrum or Kanban (2 yrs); Experience with Microsoft tool such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio (2 yrs); Experience with Oracle or SQL Servers (2 yrs)
Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree
**C2C is not available**
Job Description
REQUIRED EDUCATION:
• A bachelor’s degree in a business-related field such as business administration, information technology, finance, or marketing (or a similar field)
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
• Strong experience working in Agile/Hybrid environments, translating business requirements into user stories with acceptance criteria
• Ability to break down complex business requirements into smaller user stories for development teams, while ensuring that technical constraints, limitations and dependencies are considered
• Experience working on projects involving vendor owned, designed and hosted solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• The preferred candidate must possess and demonstrate strong troubleshooting
PREFERRED SKILLS EXPERIENCE:
• 4+ years Business Analyst or similar experience
• 4+ years Agile experience
• Experience using Azure Devops or similar tool for work item management and source control.
• Recent experience of working in an Agile development environment, e.g. Scrum or Kanban
• Experience with Microsoft tool such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio
• Experience with Oracle or SQL Servers
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Ensure project alignment with Strategic Plans
• Provide content approval and validate estimates for the entire schedule of the project for the Project Manager to ensure compliance with the Project Management Methodology (PMM) and the Systems Engineering Methodology (SEM)
• Facilitate requirements gathering/meetings with clients to gather requirements (traditional waterfall and agile) for all IT solutions and to identify impacted business processes and determine best process and IT solution integration
• Lead artifact reviews with peers, system specialists, Enterprise Security and other entities to ensure IT solutions and applications adhere to and agency policies, standards or guidelines
• Participate in Solutions Design Team meetings and assist in creation of the Enterprise Architecture Solution Assessment (EASA)
• Responsible for development of training content and facilitate training
• Approves application-wide integration, performance, system or user acceptance test plans
• Validate test data and test results
• Differentiate between defects and new requirements and initiate change requests as necessary
• Develop and monitor defect tracking logs and facilitate problem resolution
• Review and approve project management documents
• Serves as Agency Services liaison to outside consultants
• Serve as a liaison between and the client concerning application requests, standards, requirements, and other program and project matters
• Develop and maintain an effective communication plan with vendors and agency staff relating to project level metrics
• Document and analyze business processes
• Develop System diagram and Dataflow diagrams for Request for Proposal (RFP) documentation
• Collaborate with Product Owner to write clear and concise agile user stories with acceptance criteria using BDD or Gherkin format (Given/When/then)
• Assist Product Owner in prioritizing the product backlog based on business value, risk and dependencies
• Conduct sprint ceremonies like backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint demo, and refinement sessions
• Develop and maintain Test Plans, Test Cases and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Perform Functional and Regression testing and facilitate User Acceptance Testing
- **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**
- **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**
Benefits:
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California Pay Equity:
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Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances.
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Rose International has an official agreement (ID #132522), effective June 30, 2008, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Employment Verification Program (E-Verify). (Posting required by OCGA 13/10-91.).
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