Senior Agile Requirements Analyst – Remote

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking an experienced Requirements Analyst to support Veterans Affairs in a fully remote position. You will lead the capture of business requirements for software development teams and collaborate with IT, business users, and leadership to document needs in an ALM tool.

The role requires extensive SAFe/Agile experience, strong communication skills, and a track record of managing requirements across large, complex projects.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software development and SAFe/ Agile.
• Excellent written and oral communication with the customer, management, and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent attention to detail, customer service skills, and problem-solving abilities.
• Past experience conducting independent research to support resolution of complex questions.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office, including Excel.
• 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 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 specifications
• Work with customers, team members, stakeholder users, and other contractors to gather and document requirements
• Perform elaboration of user stories and 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 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 affecting progress
• Develop and maintain the product backlog(s)
• Own and manage requirements change control
• Develop Change Requests per policies and procedures
• Facilitate configuration management for project artifacts
• Traceability among requirements, test cases, and risks
• Report execution status and metrics across the Agile lifecycle (SAFe)
• Identify tasks and interrelationships to create well-documented stories
• Become a product functional SME
• Lead and mentor junior analysts
• Establish relationships with product and business owners
• Support development team to understand requirements
• Follow Scrum; deliver requirements/specifications for Sprint teams
• Remove impediments to complete Sprints
• Provide qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders
• Support change control processes

Skills

Software development

Agile/SAFe

Excellent communication

Attention to detail

Analytical thinking

MS Excel

Stakeholder management

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering or related discipline

Tools

JIRA

MS Office (Excel)

ALM tools

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking an experienced Requirements Analyst to support Veterans Affairs in a fully remote position. You will lead the capture of business requirements for software development teams and collaborate with IT, business users, and leadership to document needs in an ALM tool.

The role requires extensive SAFe/Agile experience, strong communication skills, and a track record of managing requirements across large, complex projects.