Remote Senior Functional Analyst - Agile & JIRA Expert

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 78,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst to lead requirements capture for software development and to collaborate across business, IT, and leadership teams in a Federal project environment.

The role emphasizes Agile/SAFe practices, extensive use of ALM tools (JIRA), and delivering clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog items while coordinating with Systems Engineers. A Public Trust (MBI) clearance is preferred.

Qualifications

• Must possess a strong background in software development and SAFe methodologies.
• Excellent oral and written communication; ability to convey complex technical topics to customers, management, and non-technical audiences.
• Strong attention to detail, customer service skills, and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience conducting independent research to support resolution of complex questions.
• Advanced experience with MS Office, including Excel.
• Excellent analytical skills, including integrating information from several sources.
• Expertise with JIRA tools.
• Experience in large, Agile software development or data integration projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead the capture of business requirements for software development teams.
• Collaborate with business users, IT, and leadership to elaborate and document requirements in an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool.
• Manage requirements in an ALM tool.
• Perform Agile requirement management activities for a product team.
• Perform the analysis of user needs to determine functional, cross-functional, and technical requirements.
• Conduct user interviews, lead and facilitate sessions, and develop business process models and formal specifications.
• Work with customers, team members, stakeholder users, and other contractors to gather and document business, functional, technical, and non-technical requirements.
• Perform elaboration of user stories and decomposition of stories into backlog items and determine acceptance criteria.
• Use an ALM tool (JIRA) for Requirements Management, Testing, and Defect Management to create and manage requirements, epics, sub-epics, and user stories.
• Perform the collection, tracking, and monitoring of system and business requirements.
• Validate requirements and integration.
• Conduct backlog refinement sessions.
• Coordinate with Systems Engineers to assess impact on technical solutions.
• Manage and coordinate requirements for various projects.
• Write and deliver project documents to the client.
• Identify and manage risks and issues impacting the progress and outcome of the project.
• Develop and maintain the scheduled project/product backlog(s).
• Own and manage requirements change control.
• Develop Change Requests per established policies and procedures.
• Facilitate accurate configuration management for project-related artifacts.
• Identify, document, verify, and track traceability amongst requirements, test cases, and potential risks and impediments.
• Collect, analyze, manage, and report key Program and Product Team execution status and metrics across all aspects of the Agile product development lifecycle using SAFe.
• Perform analysis to identify required tasks and their interrelationships to establish well documented stories.
• Become a product functional Subject Matter Expert (SME).
• Lead and mentor junior analysts in accordance with strategy and direction established by the Team Lead.
• Establish strong relationships with product and business owners.
• Support development team as needed to help everyone understand the requirements' details.
• Follow Agile methodology (Scrum) and deliver requirements/specifications for Sprint teams.
• Remove impediments from team members to achieve successful completion of Sprints.
• Provide clear qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders.
• Support change control processes established to monitor and control project scope.

Skills

Software development

Agile/SAFe methodologies

Excellent oral and written comunicação

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

MS Office / Excel

Education

Master's degree in Engineering or related discipline

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst to lead requirements capture for software development and to collaborate across business, IT, and leadership teams in a Federal project environment.

The role emphasizes Agile/SAFe practices, extensive use of ALM tools (JIRA), and delivering clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog items while coordinating with Systems Engineers. A Public Trust (MBI) clearance is preferred.