Senior Functional Analyst II - Remote, Agile Requirements

Socket.dev; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 78,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst - II to support federal initiatives in a fully remote US-based role. The position requires U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a Public Trust (MBI) clearance.

Responsibilities include leading requirements capture for software development, collaborating with stakeholders, and managing requirements in JIRA within an Agile/SAFe framework. Ideal candidates will have a strong software development background, excellent communication

Qualifications

• Strong background in software development and SAFe methodologies.
• Excellent oral and written communication to customers, management, 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 MS 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 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 specifications.
• Work with customers, team members, stakeholder users, and other contractors to gather and document requirements.
• Elaborate user stories, backlog items, and acceptance criteria.
• Use JIRA for requirements management, testing, and defect management.
• Collect, track, and monitor 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.
• Develop and maintain the project/product backlog(s).
• Own and manage requirements change control.
• Develop Change Requests per policies.
• Facilitate configuration management for artifacts.
• Document traceability amongst requirements, test cases, and risks.
• Report execution status and metrics across SAFe.
• Analyze tasks and interrelationships to form well-documented stories.
• Become a product functional SME.
• Lead and mentor junior analysts.
• Establish relationships with product owners.
• Support development team to understand requirement details.
• Follow Scrum and deliver requirements for Sprint teams.
• Remove impediments from team members to complete Sprints.
• Provide qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders.
• Support change control processes.

Skills

Software development

Agile/SAFe

Communication

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Independent research

JIRA

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

JIRA

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst - II to support federal initiatives in a fully remote US-based role. The position requires U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a Public Trust (MBI) clearance.

Responsibilities include leading requirements capture for software development, collaborating with stakeholders, and managing requirements in JIRA within an Agile/SAFe framework. Ideal candidates will have a strong software development background, excellent communication