Functional Analyst

Responsibilities

• Interact with stakeholders including the federal government unit representatives, governance, and ECS service desk, operations, and engineering teams to understand the needs of end users and the enterprise.
• Develop presentation materials for executive-level briefings to explain program, status, issues, requirements, justification and impact of proposed resourcing.
• Collaborate with Configuration Management to audit Jira, provide quality assurance support to ensure proper linkages and entries, and collaborate with the team to resolve issues.
• Collaborate with other teams to understand how production system changes may affect development and testing efforts.
• Proven ability to aggregate and analyze large datasets from primary database systems, identify key trends, anomalies, and insights to inform strategic decision-making.
• Skilled in developing and implementing data validation processes and quality controls to maintain data integrity and accuracy in reports and outputs.
• Decompose functional requirements into appropriate Kanban cards or scrum units (e.g., Epics, Features, User Stories).
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies and improve Agile practices throughout iterative releases.
• Coordinate monthly/sprint reporting and communication.
• Support software testing, including executing test scripts as needed.
• Support continuous innovation by implementing the best practices to improve technology, tools, and processes to increase team efficiency and technical execution.
• Track, communicate, and report on issues and risks using reporting guidelines.
• Train end users on new solutions and processes.

Qualifications

• US citizenship with Top Secret clearance.
• A minimum of five years’ experience analyzing and documenting complex systems and applications.
• Experience maintaining a backlog for an Agile/Scrum team.
• Experience collaborating with customer representatives, program management, and quality managers to define and document requirements in small increments.
• Experience decomposing features into user stories.
• Experience writing Acceptance Criteria for user stories to define system functionality.
• Demonstrated multi-tasking ability, problem solving skills, and a consistent record of on time delivery and customer service.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated aptitude for working in a fast-paced, dynamic, matrixed work environment.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills, including customer and employee engagement and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into plain English.

Skills

• Experience supporting the US Department of Justice or scientific laboratories.
• Experience in project management or managing a scrum team.
• Working knowledge of Jira and Microsoft products including the Office Suite and Teams.
• Experience conducting solution demonstrations to the client in a large group setting.
• Experience implementing corrective actions.
• Experience supporting Operations and Maintenance (O&M) functions.
• Business process analysis.

Pay

Salary Range: $90,000 - $130,000

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Required Skills

• US citizenship with Top Secret clearance.
• A minimum of five years’ experience analyzing and documenting complex systems and applications.
• Experience maintaining a backlog for an Agile/Scrum team.
• Experience collaborating with customer representatives, program management, and quality managers to define and document requirements in small increments.
• Experience decomposing features into user stories.
• Experience writing Acceptance Criteria for user stories to define system functionality.
• Demonstrated multi-tasking ability, problem solving skills, and a consistent record of on time delivery and customer service.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated aptitude for working in a fast-paced, dynamic, matrixed work environment.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills, including customer and employee engagement and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into plain English.

Desired Skills

• Experience supporting the US Department of Justice or scientific laboratories.
• Experience in project management or managing a scrum team.
• Working knowledge of Jira and Microsoft products including the Office Suite and Teams.
• Experience conducting solution demonstrations to the client in a large group setting.
• Experience implementing corrective actions.
• Experience supporting Operations and Maintenance (O&M) functions.
• Business process analysis.