Remote Senior Functional Analyst (SAFe/JIRA)

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst to lead the capture of business requirements for software development teams in a 100% remote U.S. based position.

You will collaborate with business users, IT, and leadership to document requirements in an ALM tool, manage requirements, and perform Agile requirement management for a product team. The role requires strong software development background, SAFe experience, and excellent communication and analytical skills.

Qualifications

• Must possess a strong background in software development and Agile/SAFe methodologies.
• Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics to the customer, management, and non-technical audiences.
• Must possess excellent attention to detail, customer service skills, and problem-solving abilities.
• Past experience conducting independent research to support the resolution of complex questions.
• Must possess advanced experience with Microsoft Office, including Excel.
• Must possess excellent analytical skills, including integrating information from several 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 ALM tool.
• Manage requirements in an ALM tool.
• Perform Agile requirement management activities for a product team.
• Perform the analysis of user needs to determine functional, cross-functional, and technical requirements.
• Conduct user interviews, lead and facilitate sessions, and develop business process models and formal specifications.
• Work with customers, team members, stakeholder users, and other contractors to gather and document business, functional, technical, and non-technical requirements.
• Perform elaboration of user stories and decomposition of stories into backlog items and determine acceptance criteria.
• Use an ALM tool (JIRA) for Requirements Management, Testing, and Defect Management to create and manage requirements, epics, sub-epics, and user stories.
• Perform the collection, tracking, and monitoring of 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 the progress and outcome of the project.
• Develop and maintain the scheduled project/product backlog(s).
• Own and manage requirements change control.
• Develop Change Requests per established policies and procedures.
• Facilitate accurate configuration management for project-related artifacts.
• Identify, document, verify, and track traceability amongst requirements, test cases, and potential risks and impediments.
• Collect, analyze, manage, and report key Program and Product Team execution status and metrics across all aspects of the Agile product development lifecycle using SAFe.
• Perform analysis to identify required tasks and their interrelationships to establish well-documented stories.
• Become a product functional Subject Matter Expert (SME).
• Lead and mentor junior analysts in accordance with strategy and direction established by the Team Lead.
• Establish strong relationships with product and business owners.
• Support development team as needed to help everyone understand the requirements’ details.
• Follow Agile methodology (Scrum) and deliver requirements/specifications for Sprint teams.
• Remove impediments from team members to achieve successful completion of Sprints.
• Provide clear qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders.
• Support change control processes established to monitor and control project scope.

Skills

Software development

Agile/SAFe

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Requirements gathering

JIRA

Excel

Education

Master's degree

Tools

JIRA

Excel

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst to lead the capture of business requirements for software development teams in a 100% remote U.S. based position.

You will collaborate with business users, IT, and leadership to document requirements in an ALM tool, manage requirements, and perform Agile requirement management for a product team. The role requires strong software development background, SAFe experience, and excellent communication and analytical skills.