Senior Business Analyst/Functional Lead

About the role

The ideal candidate for this position is a problem solver. As a Senior Business Analyst and Functional Lead, you are an experienced analyst proficient in requirements definition and development. You can build strong relationships with your clients and your team and can manage stakeholder expectations. Candidates who are extremely organized and thrive on making processes run efficiently will do well in this position. If you are looking for a place where you can grow your skills while working with a friendly, dynamic team, this is the role for you.

Responsibilities

• Organize the daily activities of a software development project team
• Translate client business needs into functional and technical requirements
• Create detailed development tickets and track requirements through the development process
• Interact with client during JAD sessions
• Run daily scrums, organize sprints, and conduct all team agile ceremonies
• Remove blockers so that the team can accomplish sprint goals
• Interact with advanced business analysts and solution developers to communicate and validate requirements
• Perform functional and integrated testing to test application functionality against client requirements
• Prepare and maintain project documentation and artifacts including analysis, reports and user documentation
• Work with project managers, developers, and end users to ensure application designs meet business requirements
• Assist in all phases of software systems programming applications
• Evaluate new and existing software products
• Author and prepare meeting minutes to be distributed to a variety of audiences
• Author user stories, test scripts, acceptance criteria, and other Agile deliverables

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a business-related field or information systems management preferred
• Minimum 7 years work experience as a business analyst and/or functional lead
• Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle
• Strong analytical and writing skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work effectively within a team environment under tight timelines
• Ability to multitask and support multiple projects at once
• Experience working with JIRA and Confluence

Desired qualifications/non essential skills required

• CSM certification desired but not required
• Experience authoring SQL queries will strongly benefit a candidate

Pay

To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $79,600.00 - $172,400.00.

Schedule

This position is located in our Fairfax, VA office; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.