Senior Business Analyst

In this position you serve as an experienced Senior Business Analyst in an Agile environment to deliver cloud infrastructure products and tools to our DHS customer. You will support a federal customer to work with stakeholders to understand and document business and system requirements and processes. You will perform business process analysis activities with the user community to define and document end-to-end business processes.

Location: Arlington, VA (client site)

Responsibilities

• Serve as the focal point for the capture, analysis, and management of system requirements, in the form of user stories.
• Establish relationship with business owners and stakeholders to identify and consult on business needs.
• Translate business requirements into user stories, use cases and technical requirements.
• Clearly communicate business needs to a development team through user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with the Scrum Master to establish Project Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Release cycles, resolve impediments, and provide direction on scope of work to be accomplished.
• Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, product owner and the development team during the development lifecycle to ensure project objectives are met.
• Review and evaluate work completed by development team to ensure proper scope has been met.
• Lead product demonstrations to stakeholders and report on the results of each software iteration.
• Assist with software testing to ensure acceptance criteria of user stories have been met.
• Serve as a coach and resource for the other Business Analysts on the program.

Requirements

• Ability to attain DHS EOD.
• BA + 8 years’ applicable experience, AA + 10 years’ applicable experience, MA + 5 years applicable experience, or 14 years’ experience.
• 1+ year of management/lead experience.
• Experience with functional decomposition of large business needs into multiple layers of requirements and user stories.
• Demonstrated skill in effective decomposition of business objectives into requirements for a product backlog to be implemented in a series of short and iterative development cycles.
• Ability to understand the day-to-day operational needs of customers and identify areas for improvement in business processes and proposed solutions.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with the Agile software development methodology.
• Ability to work independently on a complex task with little direction and management oversight.
• Working knowledge of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, CM, quality assurance, and release management.
• Experience with software testing.
• Experience with Microsoft Visio.

Skills

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (desired).
• Scrum Master Certification (desired).
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence (desired).
• Experience with ServiceNow (desired).

Benefits

• A culture of integrity, with character and innovation at the center of everything.
• An environment of trust, valuing unique contributions and offering autonomy through flexible time off and robust learning resources.
• A focus on continuous growth, advancing critical missions and building on a track record of success.
• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off.

Pay

The proposed salary range for this position is $103,800 - $218,100. There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.