Remote Senior Functional Analyst - Agile & VA Projects

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Virginia Beach (VA); 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 federal software delivery. This remote role requires collaboration with business users, IT, and leadership, using ALM tools and SAFe practices to drive delivery in a federal environment.

The candidate will have a strong software development background, experience with JIRA, and the ability to communicate complex technical topics to diverse audiences. U.S.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software development and SAFe methodologies.
• Excellent oral and written communication with diverse audiences.
• Attention to detail, customer service skills, and problem solving.
• Experience conducting independent research to solve complex questions.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Excel.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to integrate data from multiple sources.
• Expertise with JIRA tools for requirements, testing, and defect management.
• 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.
• Perform Agile requirement management activities for a product team.
• Analyze 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 document requirements.
• Elaborate user stories, decompose into backlog items and determine acceptance criteria.
• Use an ALM tool (JIRA) for requirements management, testing, and defect management.
• Collect, track, and monitor system and business requirements.
• Validate requirements and integration.
• Conduct backlog refinement sessions.
• Coordinate with Systems Engineers to assess technical impact.
• 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 the project/product backlog(s).
• Own and manage requirements change control.
• Develop Change Requests per policies and procedures.
• Facilitate configuration management for project artifacts.
• Identify, document, verify, and track traceability amongst requirements, test cases, and risks.
• Collect, analyze, manage, and report execution status and metrics across SAFe lifecycle.
• Perform analysis to identify tasks and interrelationships to create well-documented stories.
• Become a product functional SME and mentor junior analysts.
• Establish relationships with product and business owners.
• Support development team to clarify requirements.
• Follow Agile/Scrum and deliver requirements for Sprint teams.
• Remove impediments to achieve successful Sprints.
• Provide qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders.
• Support change control processes to monitor project scope.

Skills

SAFe methodologies

Oral and written communication

Attention to detail

Independent research

MS Excel

Analytical skills

JIRA

Agile software development

Data integration projects

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Master's degree in Engineering

Tools

JIRA

ALM tool

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst to lead requirements capture for federal software delivery. This remote role requires collaboration with business users, IT, and leadership, using ALM tools and SAFe practices to drive delivery in a federal environment.

The candidate will have a strong software development background, experience with JIRA, and the ability to communicate complex technical topics to diverse audiences. U.S.