Senior Business Analyst/Scrum Master

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

UNAVAILABLE is seeking a Business Analyst/Scrum Master to lead collection and translation of user needs from prioritization to feature writing for development and deployment. You will facilitate Agile ceremonies, partner with product teams, and ensure Salesforce and JIRA usage aligns with project goals.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 4+ years within federal government contexts, with ability to obtain security clearance. Strong communication and documentation skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 4+ years as a business analyst for the federal government.
• Functional knowledge of Salesforce data structure and reporting.
• Able to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
• Independent, fast-paced, deadline-driven with minimal supervision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with Agile and DevSecOps methodologies.
• 4+ years as Scrum/Kanban practitioner and 4+ years as Product Owner or Scrum Master.
• Ability to write user stories/epics, identify dependencies, and design solutions.

Responsibilities

• Envision, develop, and create requirements to improve tools and processes.
• Facilitate meetings/workshops to align stakeholders and produce roadmaps.
• Decompose epics into features and user stories for the development team.
• Facilitate planning sessions to ensure well-defined work.
• Assist teams with JIRA Agile lifecycle management across products.
• Manage Salesforce admin tasks including user accounts, roles, and data access.
• Keep up-to-date on Salesforce features and internal adoption decisions.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Business analysis

Agile

Scrum Master

Product Owner

JIRA

Salesforce

DevSecOps

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

JIRA

Salesforce

Job description

Overview

As aBusiness Analyst/Scrum Masteryou will lead the collection, capture, and management of mission user needs from prioritization, concept development, and feature writing to support development and deployment. Provide expertise in business process and system analysis, design, improvement, and implementation efforts and in translating business process needs into technical requirements. Provide expertise in change management and training support. Provide organizational and strategic planning for a wide variety of technical and functional environments. Provide expertise in, but not limited to, Configuration Management, Strategic Planning, Knowledge Management, Business Analysis and Technical Analysis.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

• Envision, develop, and create requirements to improve tools to streamline processes to gain efficiencies and improve key metrics.
• Apply different techniques to facilitate meetings and workshops, create a shared understanding with stakeholders, and engage team-members to produce product and portfolio roadmaps.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and product teams to decompose large epics into features and user stories that can be understood and approved by members of the development team.
• Facilitate Increment and planning sessions with clients and team members to ensure that planned work is well defined, planned, articulated, and understood.
• Assist business analysts, team leads, clients, and other team members in the use of JIRA as an Agile Lifecycle Management Tool to track work within the program across multiple product teams.
• Handle administrative functions in Salesforce applications including maintenance of user accounts, profiles, roles, security and data access, setting up workflows, sharing rules and permission sets.
• Keep up-to-date on new Salesforce features and help determine if we should implement internally.
• Provide guidance and assistance in the usage of JIRA for reporting of work progress against epics and other larger bodies of work or types of work.
• Use excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and present findings and recommendations.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree and 4+ years of functioning as a business analyst for the federal government
• Functional knowledge of Salesforce.com data structure and understanding of how to leverage the tool to meet complex process and reporting requirements.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain and government security clearance
• Able and willing to work independently and in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines, with minimal supervision
• Excellent interpersonal skills, as well as excellent communication skills, verbal and written to both technical and non-technical audiences that are in a geographically dispersed environment (conference calls, Skype, face-to-face)
• Ability to produce high quality technical documentation and analysis
• Take initiative to recommend process improvements and demonstrate creative thinking
• Knowledge and experience with Agile and DevSecOps methodologies
• Demonstrate sharp, analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills
• 4+ years of experience with Scrum/Kanban Methodologies
• 4+ years of experience serving as the Product Owner or Scrum Master
• Ability to help teams write user stories/epics, identify dependencies, and design optimal solutions

Preferred:

• Certified Scrum Master certification is preferred
• SAFe Certifications