Business Analyst

About the role

As a Business Analyst, you will lead the collection, capture, and management of mission user needs from prioritization, concept development, and feature writing to support development and deployment. You will provide expertise in business process and system analysis, design, improvement, and implementation efforts and in translating business process needs into technical requirements. You will also provide expertise in change management and training support. You will provide organizational and strategic planning for a wide variety of technical and functional environments.

Responsibilities

• Envision, develop, and create requirements to improve tools to streamline processes to gain efficiencies and improve key metrics.
• Apply different techniques to facilitate meetings and workshops, create a shared understanding with stakeholders, and engage team-members to produce product and portfolio roadmaps.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and product teams to decompose large epics into features and user stories that can be understood and approved by members of the development team.
• Facilitate Increment and planning sessions with clients and team members to ensure that planned work is well defined, planned, articulated, and understood.
• Aid business analysts, team leads, clients, and other team members in the use of JIRA as an Agile Lifecycle Management Tool to track work within the program across multiple product teams.
• Provide guidance and assistance in the usage of JIRA for reporting of work progress against epics and other larger bodies of work or types of work.
• Use excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and present findings and recommendations.

Qualifications

• Eligible to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
• Bachelor's Degree and 2+ years of functioning as a business analyst for the federal government.
• Able and willing to work independently and in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines, with minimal supervision.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, as well as excellent communication skills, verbal and written to both technical and non-technical audiences that are in a geographically dispersed environment (conference calls, Teams, face-to-face).
• Ability to produce high quality technical documentation and analysis.
• Take initiative to recommend process improvements and demonstrate creative thinking.
• Knowledge and experience with Agile and DevSecOps methodologies.
• Demonstrate sharp, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Preferred

• Preferred Certified Scrum Master certification.

Benefits

The projected compensation range for this position is $75,000 to $140,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

Identity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.