Senior Functional Analyst - Remote SAFe/Jira Lead

Syms Strategic Group, LLC; State College (Centre County); On-site; USD 78,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC seeks a Senior Functional Analyst to support federal VA programs in a 100% remote role. The position emphasizes SAFe/Agile requirements, stakeholder collaboration, and ALM/JIRA‑based traceability. A strong background in software development and extensive experience in requirements management are essential.

Applicants should have 10 years of professional experience and a Public Trust (MBI) clearance or eligibility. U.S. citizenship is required for this opportunity.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software development and SAFe methodologies.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills to diverse audiences.
• Attention to detail, customer service and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience with eliciting and documenting requirements across stakeholders.

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
• Conduct user interviews, lead and facilitate sessions, and develop business process models
• Work with customers, team members, stakeholder users and other contractors to gather requirements
• Perform elaboration of user stories and backlog decomposition with acceptance criteria
• Use JIRA for Requirements Management, Testing and Defect Management
• Track system and business requirements and ensure traceability
• Validate requirements and integration
• Conduct backlog refinement sessions
• Coordinate with Systems Engineers to assess impact on solutions
• Manage and coordinate requirements for various projects
• Write and deliver project documents to the client
• Identify and manage risks and issues impacting project progress
• Develop and maintain project/product backlog(s)
• Own and manage requirements change control
• Develop Change Requests per policies and procedures
• Facilitate configuration management for project artifacts
• Document traceability amongst requirements, test cases, and risks
• Collect and report key execution status and metrics across SAFe lifecycle
• Perform analysis to identify tasks and interdependencies for well-documented stories
• Become a product functional SME
• Lead and mentor junior analysts
• Establish relations with product and business owners
• Support development team to understand requirements details
• Follow Scrum methodology and deliver Sprint requirements

Skills

Agile/SAFe

Communication

Analytical

Requirements elicitation

Mentoring juniors

Education

Master's degree in Engineering

Tools

JIRA

MS Excel

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC seeks a Senior Functional Analyst to support federal VA programs in a 100% remote role. The position emphasizes SAFe/Agile requirements, stakeholder collaboration, and ALM/JIRA‑based traceability. A strong background in software development and extensive experience in requirements management are essential.

Applicants should have 10 years of professional experience and a Public Trust (MBI) clearance or eligibility. U.S. citizenship is required for this opportunity.