Program & Portfolio Management - Analyst, Business

Ampcus, Inc; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus, Inc. is looking for a dedicated Agile Senior Business Analyst in Reston, VA. This role involves translating business needs into actionable user stories, facilitating Agile ceremonies, and ensuring effective collaboration across teams.

Preferred qualifications include substantial experience in business analysis, Agile methodologies, and proficiency in tools such as JIRA and Microsoft Office.

The position is temporary for 12 months with potential for permanent placement, emphasizing adaptability and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in business analysis or a related field.
• Experience with Agile frameworks and scrum teams.
• Ability to create user stories in JIRA.

Responsibilities

• Gather and validate user requirements from stakeholders.
• Manage user acceptance testing and documentation.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and monitor project status.

Skills

Business analysis

Agile methodologies

JIRA

Communication skills

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Job description

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Job Title: Program & Portfolio Management - Analyst, Business

Location: Reston, VA

Duration: 12 Months - Temp to perm

Job Summary

The Agile Senior Business Analyst serves as a key liaison between business stakeholders and Agile delivery teams, ensuring that evolving business needs are continuously understood, prioritized, and translated into actionable user stories and product features. This role is responsible for facilitating Agile ceremonies, refining backlogs, and driving iterative delivery of value through close collaboration with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, and QA teams. The incumbent ensures that business objectives are met by enabling adaptive planning, early delivery, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Interprets business needs and issues by gathering, eliciting, creating, analyzing, documenting, and validating the Business area's user and/or technical (functional/non-functional) requirements.
• Responsible for the overall success of user acceptance testing, including documentation, verification, and release.
• Support end users with training and release communications.
• Identifies, documents, and troubleshoots problems utilizing acquired experience and knowledge of the relationships in systems, software, and processes.
• Maintain clear and concise documentation of business processes, workflows, and system interactions using Agile-friendly formats.
• Monitors and reports project status to identify and mitigate risks and to ensure quality and timely deliverables.
• Research and respond to policy-related inquiries impacting Agile delivery or system behavior.

Required Qualifications

• 5 years progressive experience in business analysis, systems analysis, testing or other analytical experience.
• Health insurance experience.
• Experience with interacting with large scrum teams.
• Agile experience.
• Hands‑on experience with creating 10-15 user stories per week in JIRA.
• In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven ability to deliver high-quality Agile artifacts and contribute to cost‑effective, value‑driven solutions.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and business analysis core competencies.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office and Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps).
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment with shifting priorities and multiple concurrent initiatives.

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.