Federal Business Analyst – Agile, Jira & Change

Steampunk; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 75,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk is seeking a Business Analyst to lead the collection, capture, and management of mission user needs from prioritization, concept development, and feature writing to support development and deployment. You will provide expertise in business process and system analysis, design, improvement, and implementation, translating needs into technical requirements and guiding change management and training.

This role involves strategic planning across various environments, with emphasis on Agile

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 4+ years of functioning as a business analyst for the federal government.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
• Able and willing to work independently and in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines, with minimal supervision.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, verbal and written to both technical and non-technical audiences across dispersed teams.
• 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.
• Certified Scrum Master certification is preferred.
• Experience with UAT and Software Testing.

Responsibilities

• Envision, develop, and create requirements 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.

Skills

Business analysis

Agile & DevSecOps

Communication skills

Documentation

Stakeholder collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Steampunk is seeking a Business Analyst to lead the collection, capture, and management of mission user needs from prioritization, concept development, and feature writing to support development and deployment. You will provide expertise in business process and system analysis, design, improvement, and implementation, translating needs into technical requirements and guiding change management and training.

This role involves strategic planning across various environments, with emphasis on Agile