Maximo Business Analyst

Accenture Federal Services
Washington, DC
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Best suited to candidates with IBM Maximo experience working in highly regulated environments, such as nuclear or utility sectors, who can manage cross-functional collaboration and maintain traceability across complex projects.

Best fit for

  • Individuals skilled in translating stakeholder needs into detailed requirements and supporting testing activities
    — “Translate high-level stakeholder needs into detailed functional and non-functional requirements...”
  • Professionals with experience in process documentation and maintaining traceability in application-lifecycle management tools
    — “Develop and maintain the Requirements Traceability Matrix in Azure DevOps.”

Things to consider

  • The role demands strong cross-functional collaboration across multiple departments and technical teams
    — “Work with stakeholders across Nuclear, Generation, Transmission, Supply Chain, Facilities, Finance, and IT”
  • Candidates should be prepared to support the full implementation lifecycle including defect analysis and retesting
    — “Coordinate defect analysis, business-priority determination, remediation validation, and retesting with developers and testers”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with Maximo upgrades and traceability matrix development in your resume and interview responses
    — “Experience upgrading Maximo 7.6.x to IBM Maximo Application Suite 9.x.”
  • Emphasize your ability to document and validate requirements across multiple domains and technical teams
    — “Define and validate requirements across Work Management, Asset Management, Preventive Maintenance...”
  • Showcase your background in regulated environments, such as nuclear or SOX-controlled systems
    — “Familiarity with Nuclear, NQA-1, SOX-controlled, or other highly regulated environments”
  • Demonstrate your skills in Agile delivery, including sprint planning and backlog refinement
    — “Understanding of Agile delivery, two-week sprints, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews”
  • Include examples of your experience with functional design documentation and test-case development
    — “Develop or review functional design documents, configuration requirements, process documentation...”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • successful upgrade from Maximo 7.6.1.3 to MAS 9.2
  • maintaining traceability from requirements through deployment
Typical background
experience as a Business Analyst or Functional Analyst

Skills & requirements

Required

Business AnalysisRequirements GatheringProcess ImprovementProject ManagementStakeholder Management

Preferred

MaximoMAS

Stack & domain

MaximoWork ManagementAsset ManagementPreventive MaintenancePlanningProcurementInventoryReportingMobileSchedulerAzure DevopsLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingCollaborationNuclearGenerationTransmissionSupply ChainFacilitiesFinanceIT

About the role

Original posting from Accenture Federal Services via Greenhouse

At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. 

Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more. 

Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!

The Job:

As a Maximo Business Analyst, you will be responsible for translating operational and business needs into detailed, testable requirements for the upgrade from Maximo 7.6.1.3 to MAS 9.2. You will work with stakeholders across Nuclear, Generation, Transmission, Supply Chain, Facilities, Finance, and IT to document current-state processes, define future-state requirements, assess functional gaps, and maintain traceability from requirements through design, build, testing, and deployment. The role will support Maximo capabilities including Work Management, Asset Management, Preventive Maintenance, Planning, Procurement, Inventory, Condition Reports, financial integrations, reporting, Mobile, and Scheduler.

Job Responsibilities:

Facilitate requirements-gathering workshops, interviews, process reviews, and design-validation sessions with business and technical stakeholders

Translate high-level stakeholder needs into detailed functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and business outcomes

Develop and maintain the Requirements Traceability Matrix in Azure DevOps.Document current-state and future-state business processes, process flows, business rules, pain points, and functional gaps

Analyze existing Maximo configurations, customizations, workflows, reports, and user-interface changes with functional and technical leads

Support customization disposition decisions, including retain, remediate, refactor, replace with MAS out-of-the-box functionality, redesign, or retire

Define and validate requirements across Work Management, Asset Management, Preventive Maintenance, Planning, Supply Chain, Inventory, financial integration, reporting, and Nuclear Solution capabilities

Identify dependencies involving data migration, security roles, reporting, integrations, and boundary systems

Maintain the functional backlog and support backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and stakeholder demonstrations once build begins

Develop or review functional design documents, configuration requirements, process documentation, test scenarios, and expected results

Support Functional and Technical Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, regression testing, and User Acceptance Testing

Coordinate defect analysis, business-priority determination, remediation validation, and retesting with developers and testers

Support business readiness, training-content validation, cutover preparation, Go-Live, and Hypercare activities

Ensure requirements, decisions, designs, test cases, defects, and approvals remain traceable throughout the implementation lifecycle

Here's What You Need:

Experience as a Business Analyst or Functional Analyst on IBM Maximo or enterprise asset-management implementations

Strong understanding of Maximo business processes, applications, configurations, workflows, and security structures

Experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating functional and non-functional requirements

Ability to facilitate workshops with business users, process owners, technical teams, and senior stakeholders

Experience developing process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, RTMs, and functional-design documentation

Understanding of Agile delivery, two-week sprints, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews

Experience supporting test-case development, UAT, defect triage, and requirements validation

Strong written communication, analytical thinking, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills

Ability to translate business needs into clear requirements that developers, testers, data teams, and integration teams can implement

Familiarity with Azure DevOps or a comparable requirements and application-lifecycle management tool

Would Be Nice To Have:

Experience upgrading Maximo 7.6.x to IBM Maximo Application Suite 9.x.Utility, power-generation, transmission, supply-chain, or field-operations experience

Familiarity with Nuclear, NQA-1, SOX-controlled, or other highly regulated environments

Experience with Maximo Mobile, Scheduler, integrations, data migration, reporting, or boundary systems

Knowledge of INVEST-based user stories and Gherkin-style acceptance criteria.

As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia is:$65,800—$128,400 USD

What We Believe

As a company wholly dedicated to serving the US federal government, we bring together the best talent to help reinvent how federal agencies operate and deliver greater value for their mission and the American people. We have an unwavering commitment to creating a culture in which all our people are respected, feel a sense of belonging, and have equal opportunity. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture Federal Services has the responsibility to create and sustain a culture where everyone feels welcomed and included. This is grounded in our core values and our experience that hiring and developing great people who reflect different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds is key to driving innovation and delivering the results that our clients and the country count on.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities. For details, view a copy of the Accenture Federal Services Equal Opportunity Policy Statement.

Accenture Federal Services is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Additionally, as an Affirmative Action Employer for Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities, Accenture Federal Services is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

Requesting An Accommodation 

Accenture Federal Services is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you are hired by Accenture Federal Services and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired.

If you are being considered for employment opportunities with Accenture Federal Services and need an accommodation for a disability or religious observance during the interview process or for the job you are interviewing for, please speak with your recruiter.

Other Employment Statements 

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture Federal Services or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

The Company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Additionally, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company's legal duty to furnish information.

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Source: Accenture Federal Services careers (Greenhouse)

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