Business Analyst

Acuity, Inc.; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity, Inc. is hiring a Business Analyst to support a high-visibility government client. The BA will gather and prioritize requirements, document user stories, and collaborate with the development team to ensure timely delivery of sophisticated applications.

Ideal candidates have IT-related degrees, Agile experience with Azure DevOps or Jira, and strong written communication skills. U.S. citizenship and a Secret clearance are required for this role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a related IT field.
• Experience developing requirements and writing technical documents.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Agile methodologies experience with Azure DevOps or Jira.
• Experience with UI designs and mockups.
• Previous government client experience is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a dedicated BA supporting development teams to achieve daily, iteration, and release goals.
• Elicit, document, communicate, and prioritize business requirements from clients.
• Enforce Scrum principles and help improve agile practices across the team.
• Interact with technical staff to define technical solutions for business needs.
• Lead daily stand-ups, planning, reviews, and backlog prioritization.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Technical documentation

Excellent writing & communication

Agile experience

UI designs & mockups

Security clearance

Government client experience

Multi-tasking

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Power Apps

Power Platform

Power BI

Dynamics 365

Job description

Overview

Acuity, Inc. has an opening for a Business Analystto support a very visible government client. Are you a dynamic and creative individual who enjoy working in a collaborative environment for the development of sophisticated applications? Come check out Acuity!

Overview

Acuity, Inc. has an opening for a Business Analystto support a very visible government client. Are you a dynamic and creative individual who enjoy working in a collaborative environment for the development of sophisticated applications? Come check out Acuity!

Acuity is an award-winning consulting firm that provides proven management and technological services to the Federal government. Recognized as one of the Best Places to Work, by the Washington Business Journal for over five years in a row, we are hiring additional Business Analysts to further assist and join in our growth.

Why Acuity?

Looking to make a difference, to help keep people safe, or even to save lives through your work with technology? Join Acuity’s team of experts to have an impact on our government’s critical missions. Acuity, Inc. is a consulting firm that supports federal agencies in the areas of IT Modernization, Data Enablement, and Hyperautomation.

Responsibilities

Asa Business Analyst, you will serve as a dedicated team member who has primary responsibility to support the development team to successfully achieve their daily, iteration, and release goals and delivery objectives . They do so by effectively eliciting , documenting, communicating, and prioritizing business requirements from clients while applying, implementing and enforcing Scrum principles and practices. The Business Analyst will support and facilitate a team dynamic intended to maximize performance of the team and will assist with continuously improving agile practices.

Other Responsibilities To Include But Not Be Limited To

• Formation and definition of project activities and objectives based on both user needs and a good understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements.
• Develops understanding of business needs of multiple stakeholders and/ or product owner through a variety of elicitation techniques.
• Facilitates the negotiation of requirements amongst stakeholders , product owner , and project manager .
• Helps business stakeholders envision how their processes will change with implementation of solutions .
• Builds requirements to accurately and thoroughly capture business needs and ensures user stories are concise and complete .
• Builds and updates system requirements specification documents or other requirements related artifacts.
• Able to interact with technical staff and work collaboratively to define technical solutions to solve business needs.
• Able to perform responsibilities utilizing agile software development methodologies.

Qualifications

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree with experience in a related Information Technology field
• Experience in developing requirements
• Experience writing technical documents
• Excellentwriting and communication skills
• Ableto take initiative, manage own workload, and assume responsibility fortasks
• Ableto multi-task, handle multiple projects, and meet internal and clientdeadlines
• Proactively seeks opportunities to implement improvements to internal team processes
• Contributes to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork within the organization Agile process life cycle
• Strong written and communication skills required
• Must have Agile experience;methodologies and tools (Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar)
• Experiencewith User Interface designs and mockups
• Prior experience with building solutions using Microsoft Power Apps or Dynamics , Power Platform, and Power BI is highly desirable.
• Previous experience working with Government clients is highly desirable
• Must have experience in conducting daily stand-up meetings, planning and review sessions, prioritiz ing tasks and mitigat ing roadblocks

Required Clearance

• Must be US Citizen and have at least an active US government Secret-level security clearance

Min

USD $90,000.00/Yr.

Max

USD $100,000.00/Yr.

Salary Range

The salary range for this position represents Acuity's good faith estimate of the compensation for this job title at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate's qualifications, experience, education, certifications, skills, geographic location, contract requirements, applicable labor categories, and, where applicable, contract award and funding.