Business Analyst

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Business Analyst role focused on collecting and managing mission user needs, translating business processes into technical requirements, and supporting change management and training. You will drive requirements, roadmaps, and collaboration with product teams to decompose epics into features and user stories, while leveraging JIRA for Agile lifecycle management.

Ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of federal government experience with Salesforce, Jira, and DevSecOps awareness;

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 4+ years of functioning as a business analyst for the federal government.
• Functional knowledge of Salesforce.com data structure and understanding of how to leverage the tool to meet complex process and reporting requirements.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
• Able to work independently in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines and minimal supervision.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences in a dispersed environment.
• Ability to produce high quality technical documentation and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Envision, develop, and create requirements to improve tools to streamline processes and improve metrics.
• Facilitate meetings and workshops to create shared understanding with stakeholders and produce roadmaps.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to decompose large epics into features and user stories for the development team.
• Facilitate Increment and planning sessions to ensure work is defined, planned, articulated, and understood.
• Assist with JIRA use to track work across multiple product teams.
• Provide guidance in JIRA reporting for progress against epics and other work.
• Explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and present findings and recommendations.

Skills

Business analysis

Agile

Stakeholder management

Communication

Requirements gathering

Technical translation

Change management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

JIRA

Salesforce

Job description

Overview

As aBusiness Analystyou will lead the collection, capture, and management of mission user needs from prioritization, concept development, and feature writing to support development and deployment. Provide expertise in business process and system analysis, design, improvement, and implementation efforts and in translating business process needs into technical requirements. Provide expertise in change management and training support. Provide organizational and strategic planning for a wide variety of technical and functional environments. Provide expertise in, but not limited to, Configuration Management, Strategic Planning, Knowledge Management, Business Analysis and Technical Analysis.

Responsibilities

• Envision, develop, and createrequirements to improve tools to streamline processes to gain efficiencies and improve key metrics.
• Apply different techniques to facilitate meetings and workshops, create a shared understanding with stakeholders, and engage team-members to produce product and portfolio roadmaps.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and product teams to decompose large epics into features and user stories that can be understood and approved by members of the development team.
• Facilitate Increment and planning sessions with clients and team members to ensure that planned work is well defined, planned, articulated, and understood.
• Assist business analysts, team leads, clients, and other team members in the use of JIRA as an Agile Lifecycle Management Tool to track work within the program across multiple product teams.
• Provide guidance and assistance in the usage of JIRA for reporting of work progress against epics and other larger bodies of work or types of work.
• Use excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and present findings and recommendations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 4+ years of functioning as a business analyst for the federal government
• Functional knowledge of Salesforce.com data structure and understanding of how to leverage the tool to meet complex process and reporting requirements.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain and government security clearance
• Able and willing to work independently and in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines, with minimal supervision
• Excellent interpersonal skills, as well as excellent communication skills, verbal and written to both technical and non-technical audiences that are in a geographically dispersed environment (conference calls, Skype, face-to-face)
• Ability to produce high quality technical documentation and analysis
• Take initiative to recommend process improvements and demonstrate creative thinking
• Knowledge and experience with Agile and DevSecOps methodologies
• Demonstrate sharp, analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills

Preferred:

• Certified Scrum Master certification is preferred