Remote Appian BA | Scrum Master & Backlog Lead

Horizon Industries; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision, &

401(k) program with employer match

Educational Assistance program

Student Loan Repayment Program

Paid Time off

Dynamics team

Job summary

Horizon Industries is seeking a Business Analyst (Appian) for a remote, full-time position supporting the DISA program. The role emphasizes leading backlog grooming, translating business needs into technical requirements, and training stakeholders on new functionality.

The ideal candidate brings strong experience in business process analysis, Agile methodologies, and familiarity with Appian and JIRA, with emphasis on requirement traceability and testing evidence.

Qualifications

• Provide detailed, comprehensive, testable, and traceable process components in several formats, including Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Data Requirements, System Software Specifications, and Use Cases.
• Provide business process and system analysis, design, improvement, and implementation support.
• Translate business process needs into technical requirements, provide change management and training support.
• The ability to communicate organizational and strategic planning for both technical and functional environments.
• Five (5) years of current experience (including educational) in business process and system analysis, design, improvement, and implementation efforts, change management, and training support.
• It is desired that this person has UI/UX experience with software applications.
• Experience in Agile and JIRA is required.
• Scrum master certification is nice to have.
• Any testing-related certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Review user stories in backlog; gain a solid understanding of the changes needed.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to understand user stories and updates needed.
• Document acceptance criteria for user stories and bug tickets.
• Help Developers understand the user stories and acceptance criteria, and lead discussions of new functionality.
• Test user stories and ensure that testing is appropriately documented, with evidence recorded.
• Serve as scrum master/ lead daily scrums.
• Develop an agenda for backlog grooming session; get concurrence with Product Owners.
• Lead backlog grooming sessions with Product Owners.
• Lead demo day and introduce stories to the Product Owners
• Train stakeholders on new functionality
• Document business processes and changes.

Skills

Agile & JIRA

UI/UX experience

Scrum Master certification

Testing certifications

Requirements traceability

Stakeholder training

Business process analysis

System analysis

Change management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (IS/CS/Software Eng)

Tools

Appian

JIRA

Job description

Horizon Industries is seeking a Business Analyst (Appian) for a remote, full-time position supporting the DISA program. The role emphasizes leading backlog grooming, translating business needs into technical requirements, and training stakeholders on new functionality.

The ideal candidate brings strong experience in business process analysis, Agile methodologies, and familiarity with Appian and JIRA, with emphasis on requirement traceability and testing evidence.