Senior Functional Analyst — Remote, Agile & VA-Focused

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; Melbourne (FL); Remote; USD 78,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst to lead the capture and documentation of business requirements for software development teams. This remote, full-time role supports the Veterans Affairs department and requires SAFe/Agile experience and strong communication with business users, IT, and leadership.

The ideal candidate will manage requirements in ALM tools like JIRA, develop user stories and acceptance criteria, coordinate with Systems Engineers, and mentor junior

Qualifications

• Strong background in software development and SAFe/Scaled Agile Framework.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Attention to detail, problem-solving, and customer-focused mindset.
• Experience conducting independent research to support complex questions.
• Advanced experience with MS Office, including Excel.
• Analytical skills with 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 specifications.
• Gather and document business, functional, technical, and non-technical requirements from stakeholders.
• Elaborate user stories and decompose into backlog items with acceptance criteria.
• Use ALM tools (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 on technical impact.
• Manage and coordinate requirements for various projects.
• Write and deliver project documents to clients.
• Identify and manage risks and issues impacting project progress.
• Develop and maintain the project/product backlog(s).
• Own and manage requirements change control.
• Develop Change Requests per policies and procedures.
• Facilitate configuration management for project artifacts.
• Identify, document, verify, and track traceability among requirements, test cases, risks and impediments.
• Report key execution status and metrics across the Agile lifecycle using SAFe.
• Perform analysis to identify required tasks and relationships 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 requirement details.
• Follow Scrum and deliver requirements/specifications for Sprint teams.
• Remove impediments to achieve successful Sprint completions.
• Provide qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders.
• Support change control processes to monitor project scope.

Skills

Software development

SAFe / Agile

JIRA

MS Office Excel

Analytical skills

Verbal and written communication

Data integration

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst to lead the capture and documentation of business requirements for software development teams. This remote, full-time role supports the Veterans Affairs department and requires SAFe/Agile experience and strong communication with business users, IT, and leadership.

The ideal candidate will manage requirements in ALM tools like JIRA, develop user stories and acceptance criteria, coordinate with Systems Engineers, and mentor junior