Business Analyst - GDOT (SharePoint Assessment & Modernization)

Candidate Requirement: Local Georgia candidates with prior State or Federal client experience Business Analyst GDOT (SharePoint Assessment & Modernization) Ideal Candidate A detail-oriented BA with strong SharePoint and Microsoft 365 analysis experience, who can turn business needs into clear, traceable requirements and has supported complex enterprise modernization initiatives. They should be comfortable working with diverse stakeholders, documenting existing systems, and supporting the move to a future-state solution. The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support the assessment and modernization of its existing SharePoint environment. The BA will lead business and functional analysis to document the current state of SharePoint sites, forms, workflows, permissions, integrations, and data sources, and to define clear, actionable, traceable requirements for the future-state solution. The role involves close collaboration with business stakeholders, SMEs, and technical teams to identify existing functionality, validate requirements, document dependencies, and support user acceptance testing. Key Responsibilities

• Run discovery and analysis of GDOT’s current SharePoint environment: sites, forms, workflows, permissions, integrations, document repositories, and data sources.
• Document current-state and future-state processes, workflows, functional requirements, use cases, and user stories.
• Develop and maintain a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) linking requirements to solution design, testing, and acceptance evidence.
• Identify active, inactive, obsolete, redundant, and retirement-candidate functionality for stakeholder review.
• Validate inventory findings, discrepancies, dependencies, technical limitations, and data-quality risks.
• Facilitate requirements sessions, stakeholder interviews, discovery workshops, and process-mapping activities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, SMEs, and technical teams to resolve questions, document decisions, and maintain alignment.
• Support migration, modernization, and business-transformation planning.
• Assist with UAT planning, test-case development, defect triage, issue tracking, and business acceptance.
• Help define training needs, business documentation, knowledge-transfer materials, and operational-handoff requirements.
• Maintain organized project documentation for transparency, traceability, and stakeholder approval., Deliverables
• Current-state SharePoint inventory and functional assessments
• Current-state and future-state process maps and workflow documentation
• Business and functional requirements, use cases, and user stories
• Maintained Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Documentation of obsolete functionality, dependencies, variances, and data-quality risks
• UAT plans, test cases, defect tracking, and acceptance support
• Training, knowledge-transfer, and operational-handoff requirements

• Experience analyzing SharePoint environments and Microsoft 365 collaboration platforms.
• Experience assessing forms, workflows, document management, permissions, and integrations.
• Strong background in requirements elicitation, process mapping, use cases, and user stories.
• Experience building and maintaining RTMs tied to design, testing, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience supporting enterprise migrations, application modernization, or business transformation.
• Ability to evaluate existing functionality, identify redundancies and gaps, and recommend actions.
• Experience with UAT planning, test-case preparation, defect management, and acceptance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Local Georgia candidate available for occasional on-site meetings in Atlanta.
• Prior State or Federal government client experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with a state transportation agency or similar public-sector organization.
• SharePoint migration, Microsoft 365 modernization, or collaboration-platform transformation experience.
• Familiarity with enterprise content management, business process documentation, data governance, and system inventory assessments.
• Experience in structured environments requiring formal requirements, approvals, and traceability.
• Familiarity with Agile or hybrid delivery.