Senior Functional Analyst — Remote | Agile/SAFe & JIRA

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

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst to lead requirements capture for software development teams in a remote, U.S.-based role within the VA project portfolio.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of professional experience, strong SAFe/Agile credentials, and proven ability to document business, functional, and technical requirements, manage ALM artifacts, and guide backlog refinement and risk management.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software development and SAFe methodologies.
• Excellent oral and written communication to customers and non-technical audiences.
• Attention to detail, customer service skills, and problem solving.
• Experience conducting independent research to support resolution of complex questions.
• Advanced experience with MS Office, including Excel.
• Excellent analytical skills, integrating 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 document requirements in an ALM tool.
• Manage requirements in an ALM tool.
• Perform Agile requirement management activities for a product team.
• Perform analysis of user needs to determine functional, cross-functional, and technical requirements.
• Develop business process models and formal specifications.
• Gather and document business, functional, technical, and non-technical requirements.
• Elaborate user stories and decompose 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 outcome.
• Develop and maintain scheduled backlog(s).
• Own and manage requirements change control.
• Develop Change Requests per policies.
• Facilitate configuration management for project artifacts.
• Identify, document, verify, and track traceability among requirements, test cases, risks and impediments.
• Collect, analyze, manage, and report key execution status and metrics across SAFe lifecycle.
• Perform analysis to identify required tasks and interrelationships for well-documented stories.
• Become a product functional SME.
• Lead and mentor junior analysts per Team Lead direction.
• Establish strong relationships with product and business owners.
• Support development team to understand requirements details.
• Follow Scrum and deliver requirements/specifications for Sprint teams.
• Remove impediments to complete Sprints.
• Provide qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders.
• Support change control processes to monitor project scope.

Skills

Agile/SAFe methodologies

Communication

Attention to detail

Independent research

Microsoft Excel

Analytical skills

JIRA

Large Agile projects

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst to lead requirements capture for software development teams in a remote, U.S.-based role within the VA project portfolio.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of professional experience, strong SAFe/Agile credentials, and proven ability to document business, functional, and technical requirements, manage ALM artifacts, and guide backlog refinement and risk management.