Senior Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Steampunk, Inc.; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk, Inc. is seeking a Business Analyst/Scrum Master to lead requirement capture, process improvements, and agile planning across federal projects. You will translate business needs into technical requirements and support change management and training.

Responsibilities include decomposing epics into features, facilitating workshops, and guiding teams in JIRA and Salesforce usage while maintaining strong communication with dispersed stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 4+ years as a business analyst for the federal government.
• Functional knowledge of Salesforce.com data structures and reporting.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain government security clearance.
• Able to work independently in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication across distributed teams.
• Experience with Agile and DevSecOps methodologies.
• 4+ years Scrum/Kanban; 4+ years as Product Owner or Scrum Master.
• Ability to write user stories and epics, identify dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Envision, develop, and create requirements to improve tools and efficiency.
• Facilitate meetings/workshops to align stakeholders and roadmaps.
• Decompose epics into features and user stories for dev teams.
• Lead Increment and planning sessions with clients and teams.
• Assist teams in using JIRA to track work across product groups.
• Manage Salesforce admin tasks: user accounts, profiles, workflows, permissions.
• Keep up-to-date on Salesforce features for internal use.
• Provide guidance on JIRA reporting of progress against epics.

Skills

Business analysis

Salesforce

Agile methodologies

Scrum/Kanban

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

JIRA

Salesforce

Job description

As a Business Analyst/Scrum Master you 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.

Contributions

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

About Steampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $75,000 to $140,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

Identity Statement

As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Steampunk is aChange Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through itsHuman-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As anemployee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.