Remote Senior Functional Analyst - Agile & JIRA Expert

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Winston-Salem (NC); 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 teams on a VA project. This remote, U.S.-based role requires deep SAFe/Agile experience, strong communication, and the ability to coordinate with IT, business users, and leadership.

Qualifications include 10 years of professional experience, a Master's in Engineering, and U.S. citizenship with eligibility for Public Trust (MBI).

Qualifications

• Strong background in software development and SAFe methodologies.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical topics to customers and management.
• Excellent attention to detail, customer service, and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience conducting independent research to support complex questions.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office, including Excel.
• Excellent analytical skills, including integrating information from multiple sources.
• Experience 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 ALM tool.
• Manage requirements in an ALM tool and perform Agile requirement management for a product team.
• Perform the analysis of user needs to determine functional, cross-functional, and technical requirements.
• Conduct user interviews, lead sessions, and develop business process models and formal specifications.
• Work with customers, team members, stakeholder users, and other contractors to gather and document requirements.
• Perform elaboration of user stories and backlog items and determine acceptance criteria.
• Use JIRA for Requirements Management, Testing, and Defect Management to create and manage requirements, epics, sub-epics, and user stories.
• Collect, track, and monitor 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 progress and outcome.
• Develop and maintain project/product backlogs.
• Own and manage requirements change control.
• Develop Change Requests per policies and procedures.
• Facilitate configuration management for project artifacts.
• Traceability among requirements, test cases, risks, and impediments.
• Report execution status and metrics across the SAFe Agile lifecycle.
• Identify tasks and interrelationships to form well-documented stories.
• Become a product functional SME.
• Lead and mentor junior analysts.
• Establish relationships with product and business owners.
• Support development team to understand requirements details.
• Follow Scrum and deliver requirements/specifications for Sprint teams.
• Remove impediments to complete Sprints.
• Provide qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders.
• Support change control processes.

Skills

Software development

SAFe

Communication

Attention to detail

Research

Microsoft Office

Analytical skills

JIRA

Large Agile projects

Education

Master's degree in Engineering

Tools

JIRA

Microsoft Office

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst to lead requirements capture for software development teams on a VA project. This remote, U.S.-based role requires deep SAFe/Agile experience, strong communication, and the ability to coordinate with IT, business users, and leadership.

Qualifications include 10 years of professional experience, a Master's in Engineering, and U.S. citizenship with eligibility for Public Trust (MBI).