Remote Senior Functional Analyst (SAFe/Jira)

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Athens (GA); Remote; USD 78,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC seeks a Senior Functional Analyst to drive requirements for federal software projects in a remote setting. You will collaborate with business users, IT, and leadership to elicit, document, and manage requirements using ALM tools and JIRA within SAFe.

The role requires strong communication, analytical skills, and experience in Agile environments. You will mentor junior analysts, maintain backlogs, ensure traceability, and deliver clear specifications and project

Qualifications

• Must possess a strong background in software development and SAFe/Scaled Agile Frameworks.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical topics to customers and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent attention to detail, customer service, and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience conducting independent research to support resolution of complex questions.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office, including Excel.
• Excellent analytical skills, including integrating information from multiple 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.
• 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 gather and document requirements.
• Perform elaboration of user stories and decomposition into backlog items and acceptance criteria.
• Use ALM tool (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 and integrate them.
• 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.
• Develop and maintain scheduled product backlogs.
• 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 among requirements, test cases, and risks.
• Collect, analyze, manage, and report execution status and metrics across SAFe lifecycle.
• Perform analysis to identify required tasks and interrelationships for well-documented stories.
• Become a product functional SME.
• Lead and mentor junior analysts.
• Establish relationships with product and business owners.
• Support development team to clarify requirement details.
• Follow Scrum and deliver requirements/specifications for Sprint teams.
• Remove impediments to achieve successful Sprint completion.
• Provide clear qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders.
• Support change control processes to monitor project scope.

Skills

Agile/SAFe

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Problem-solving

MS Excel

Documentation

Education

Master's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC seeks a Senior Functional Analyst to drive requirements for federal software projects in a remote setting. You will collaborate with business users, IT, and leadership to elicit, document, and manage requirements using ALM tools and JIRA within SAFe.

The role requires strong communication, analytical skills, and experience in Agile environments. You will mentor junior analysts, maintain backlogs, ensure traceability, and deliver clear specifications and project