Remote Senior Functional Analyst for Agile VA Projects

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC seeks a Senior Functional Analyst for a 100% remote U.S. position in the Veterans Affairs department. The role focuses on leading requirements capture for software development and aligning with Agile/SAFe practices.

Must have federal project experience, strong JIRA/ALM skills, master’s degree in engineering, and a matching security clearance (Public Trust). Salary is $78,167–$103,855 with full-time commitment.

Qualifications

• Must have strong software development background with Agile/SAFe.
• Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent attention to detail, customer service, and problem-solving.
• Experience conducting independent research to resolve complex questions.
• Advanced experience with MS Office, including Excel.

Responsibilities

• Lead capture of business requirements for software development teams.
• Document requirements in an ALM tool with business users, IT, and leadership.
• Manage requirements in an ALM tool and track them.
• Perform Agile requirement management for a product team.
• Analyze user needs to define functional, cross-functional, and technical requirements.
• Interview users, run sessions, and create business process models and specs.
• Gather requirements from customers, team members, and stakeholders.
• Elaborate user stories; decompose into backlog items with acceptance criteria.
• Use JIRA for requirements, testing, and defect management to manage artifacts.
• Collect, track, and monitor system and business requirements across projects.
• Validate requirements and integration; conduct backlog refinement sessions.
• Coordinate with Systems Engineers to assess impact on solutions.
• Manage requirements for multiple projects.
• Write and deliver project documents to clients.
• Identify and manage risks and issues affecting progress.
• Develop and maintain product/backlog schedules.
• Own changes control for requirements.
• Create Change Requests per policies and procedures.
• Facilitate configuration management for project artifacts.
• Traceability among requirements, test cases, risks and impediments.
• Report status and metrics across SAFe-enabled lifecycles.
• Analyze tasks and relationships to form well-documented stories.
• Become a product SME and mentor junior analysts.
• Build strong relationships with product owners and stakeholders.
• Support development teams in understanding requirements.
• Follow Scrum; deliver requirements for Sprint teams.
• Remove impediments to complete Sprints.
• Provide qualitative and quantitative information to teams.
• Support change control processes.

Skills

SAFe

Agile

JIRA

Communication

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Requirements gathering

User interviews

ALM tools

Technical analysis

Education

Master's degree in Engineering

Tools

JIRA

ALM tool

MS Excel

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC seeks a Senior Functional Analyst for a 100% remote U.S. position in the Veterans Affairs department. The role focuses on leading requirements capture for software development and aligning with Agile/SAFe practices.

Must have federal project experience, strong JIRA/ALM skills, master’s degree in engineering, and a matching security clearance (Public Trust). Salary is $78,167–$103,855 with full-time commitment.