Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of BA’s spread across multiple scrum teams to build the product backlog and business objectives.
• Take ownership of the Backlog decomposition strategy and consistent implementation across the entire Product backlog.
• Work closely with the customer to ensure alignment with their expectations while ensuring strict control of Scope.
• Provide transparency throughout the backlog decomposition process using metrics and automated dashboards.
• Provide a clear Definition of Done and Definition of Ready and ensure strict compliance across Development teams.
• Take complete ownership of the product backlog for the entire product scope.
• Ensure a healthy prioritized backlog of work items ready for sprint (4 sprints ahead) for each development team.
• Take a leadership role in PI planning and provide guidance on deliverables, dependencies, milestones, timelines and sequencing.
• Work closely with BA’s and Product Owners to promptly resolve impediments and clarify requirements with the customer in a timely manner.
• Conduct periodic retrospectives and/or CoP meetings with BAs to collect feedback, identify areas for continual improvement and cross-train staff.
• Tirelessly pursue opportunities for streamlining and improving the efficiency of the end-to- end process as it pertains to product quality, alignment with requirements and most importantly customer satisfaction.
• Proactively identify and manage risks.
• Promptly identify and communicate mitigations plans.
• Address issues promptly and follow up diligently until they are resolved.
• Collaborate closely with the Architects, Testers, PO’s and stakeholders to ensure end-to-end alignment with the deliverables.
• Generate contractual deliverables and deliver them in compliance with the scope and timelines specified.
• Support CMM MVP Backlog team during end-user interviews and customer journey map development by capturing input in government provided pre-defined templates.
• Develop process maps utilizing Microsoft Visio to provide visual depiction of the business process flows as well as flows at the subprocesses with two-level depth.
• Develop narratives that accompany business process flows at each level articulating the details of each activity and with the business and technical data flowing between each activity on the process flows.
• Facilitate process flow mapping and analysis sessions with CMM team and Court staff.
• Capture input from stakeholders, analyze the opportunities for standardization versus required variations among Court types, unique local rules, and any other variations.
• Present process analysis results to the CMM team as well as Court staff at the intervals defined by the CMM team lead.
• Maintain process flow and narratives in an easily accessible, hierarchical fashion so that an end-user can drill down a given process map at each level.
• Deliver all journey mapping strategies/artifacts, process mapping/analysis, and customer interviews strategies/results within the Agile Scrum ceremonies and the bi-weekly agile report.

  Qualifications

  • 10+ years experience in supporting the product owner and agile team, eliciting business needs, maintaining user stories in the backlog, writing and maintaining technical documentation, modeling business processes and system requirements, architecture and data.
  • Experience assisting with testing, by writing acceptance criteria and confirming test cases results.
  • Experience with producing relevant and current requirements, sizing user stories correctly, and removing roadblocks prior to sprints starts.
  • Minimum Education: MA/MS. Experience may be considered in lieu of degree as follows: HS (16+ years), AA/AS (14+ years), BA/BS (12+ years), Doctorate Degree/Ph.D. (9+ years).

    Additional Information

    The likely salary range for this position is $111,155 - $150,385. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

    Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

    Travel Required: None

    Telecommuting Options: Remote Work Location: Any Location / Remote

    Total Rewards At GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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