Remote Senior Functional Analyst — SAFe/ALM

Syms Strategic Group, LLC

El Paso (TX)

Remote

USD 78,000 - 104,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst to lead requirement capture for federal software projects in a fully remote capacity. You will collaborate with Veterans Affairs stakeholders, IT teams, and contractors to document business, functional, and technical needs using ALM tools like JIRA, ensuring traceability from user stories to acceptance criteria.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in Agile/SAFe environments, strong communication skills, and a background

Qualifications

Must have strong background in software development and SAFe methodologies.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Attention to detail, customer service, and problem-solving abilities.
Experience with independent research to support complex questions.

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 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 and stakeholders to gather and document requirements.
Perform elaboration of user stories and backlog item decomposition with acceptance criteria.
Use an ALM tool (JIRA) for requirements, testing, and defect management.
Collect, track, and monitor system and business requirements; validate and integrate them.
Conduct backlog refinement sessions and manage change control.