Senior Functional Analyst II - Remote, Agile & VA Projects

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 78,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC in a fully remote capacity is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst - II to support the Veterans Affairs department. You will lead requirements capture for software development, collaborate with business users, IT, and leadership, and manage requirements in an ALM tool such as JIRA within SAFe/Agile frameworks.

The role requires federalspecific experience, a Public Trust (MBI) clearance, a Master’s degree, and 10 years of professional experience. U.S.

Qualifications

• Must have strong background in software development and SAFe methodologies.
• Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical topics to diverse audiences.
• Must have strong attention to detail, customer service, and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience with independent research to support resolving complex questions.
• Advanced experience with MS Office, including Excel.
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to integrate information from multiple 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.
• Analyze user needs to determine functional, cross-functional, and technical requirements.
• Conduct user interviews, lead sessions, and develop business process models and formal specifications.
• Work with customers, team members, stakeholder users, and other contractors to gather and document requirements.
• Elaborate user stories and decompose stories into backlog items with acceptance criteria.
• Use JIRA for Requirements Management, Testing, and Defect Management to create and manage requirements, epics, sub-epics, and user stories.
• 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 impacting progress and outcomes.
• Develop and maintain the scheduled product backlog(s).
• Own and manage requirements change control.
• Develop Change Requests per policies.
• 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 execution status and metrics across SAFe.
• Perform analysis to identify required tasks and interrelationships.
• Become a product functional SME.
• Lead and mentor junior analysts.
• Establish strong relationships with product and business owners.
• Support development team to understand requirements details.
• Follow Agile methodology (Scrum) and deliver requirements/specifications for Sprint teams.
• Remove impediments from team members to achieve successful Sprints.
• Provide qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders.
• Support change control processes established to monitor and control project scope.

Skills

SAFe

Communication

Attention to detail

Independent research

MS Excel

Analytical skills

JIRA

Agile development

Education

Master's degree in Engineering

Tools

ALM tool

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC in a fully remote capacity is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst - II to support the Veterans Affairs department. You will lead requirements capture for software development, collaborate with business users, IT, and leadership, and manage requirements in an ALM tool such as JIRA within SAFe/Agile frameworks.

The role requires federalspecific experience, a Public Trust (MBI) clearance, a Master’s degree, and 10 years of professional experience. U.S.