Business Process Analyst

Quest Oracle Community; Ashburn (VA); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health and Wellness programs

Income Protection

Paid Leave

Retirement

Job summary

Leidos in Ashburn, VA seeks a Business Process Analyst to support a mission-critical CBP program. The role emphasizes strong systems, software, cloud and Agile experience, with frequent collaboration with Architects, agile teams, and product owners to elicit and document essential business needs.

Candidate must be in Ashburn twice a week, be a self-starter with leadership ability, and have experience writing user stories, backlog refinement, and QA collaboration in an AI/ML-enabled software

Qualifications

• BA/BS with 8+ years of relevant experience, or 6+ years with Master’s.
• Experience with AI/ML as part of the software lifecycle.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum/Kanban environments.
• 5+ years writing user stories and maintaining backlog.
• Excellent communication with diverse agile teams and stakeholders.
• Experience with stakeholder interviews/workshops.
• JIRA experience required.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product owner, technical leads, and developers on requirements and acceptance criteria in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Refine, groom and prioritize the backlog with product owners.
• Flesh out technical and QA requirements with development teams.
• Collaborate to understand goals and develop/test functionality using BDD/ATDD.
• Adapt to customer dynamics and foster innovative ideas; lead as needed.
• Work with stakeholders to align processes with business goals; be self-starting.
• Occasionally perform manual testing or Scrum Master duties; primary focus on Business Process Analyst.

Skills

Stakeholder interviews

User story writing

Requirement elicitation

Leadership

Independent work

Education

BA/BS with 8+ years experience

Master's Degree (optional)

Experience in lieu of degree

Tools

JIRA

Job description

The Homeland Sector within Leidos is seeking Business Process Analyst with strong systems, software, cloud, and Agile experience to support a complex program to provide Agile development and operations and maintenance for critical systems on a mission-critical program supporting the Passenger Systems Program Directorate (PSPD) Interface and Support Processes division within Customs and Border Protection (CBP). PSPD supports the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and CBP critical missions, specifically screening and processing travelers at the ports of entry (POEs) into the United States.

This position requires frequent interactions with Architects, agile delivery teams, CBP product owners, and other CBP stakeholders to lead the gathering, refinement, and documentation of business needs and requirements.

This position REQUIRES the candidate to be in Ashburn, VA, twice a week

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product owner, technical leads, and developers on the requirement elicitation, documentation in JIRA epic/stories/features and acceptance criteria in fast-paced agile environment
• Work with product owners to refine, groom and prioritize the backlog
• Work with development teams to flesh out technical and QA requirements
• Collaborates with team on understanding the requirements and properly developing and testing functionality using BDD and ATDD
• Quickly adapt to customer dynamic environment and adopt their processes and foster innovative ideas
• Adapt to new ways of working, socializing and collaborating with stakeholders and understanding their business goals
• Must be a self-starter, strong leader, and have the ability to work independently with little supervision
• At times, takes on duties of manual testing, and / or scrum maters, primary focus will always be Business Process Analyst

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS with 8+ years of relevant experience or 6+ years of relevant experience with Master's Degree: OR 7 years of experience in lieu of degree
• Experience working with AI/ML as an integral part of executing the software lifecycle and/or implementing AI/ML solutions to support mission
• Experience in Agile/Scrum/Kanban supporting Agile efforts
• At least five (5) years of experience writing user stories, slicing features, using test suites and maintaining issue backlog
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with diverse agile teams, product owners, stakeholders, and SMEs.
• Experience conducting stakeholder interviews and facilitating stakeholder workshops.
• Experience with JIRA required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active CBP BI
• Experience with CBP PSPD
• Previous experience developing software applications in a DevOps environment utilizing one or more of the following technologies: Java, HTML5/JavaScript, Oracle, and web services or IBM MQ

Pay Range

Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.