Sr. Agile Business Analyst

General Dynamics IT; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics IT is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support the Case Management Modernization (CMM) program for the Administrative Office of the US Courts. You will join an agile team building a cloud-based solution to modernize CM/ECF across appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts.

Responsibilities include backlog decomposition, defining acceptance criteria, coordinating with Fed BAs and Product Owners, and creating clear process flows and narratives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related experience in business analysis.
• Experience analyzing, decomposing and documenting detailed requirements.
• Experience developing requirements into technical user stories with DoD and acceptance criteria.
• Experience aligning product scope, vision, and roadmap with stakeholders.
• Cloud-based IT solutions and modern UI stacks (React, NodeJS) desirable.
• Experience with COTS solutions (Camunda, Flowable, MS Bookings, SharePoint) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Participate in Agile ceremonies and backlog planning with stakeholders.
• Decompose the backlog and ensure consistent implementation across the product backlog.
• Collaborate with customers to align expectations while controlling scope.
• Provide transparency with backlog metrics and dashboards.
• Define and enforce DoD and Definition of Ready for work items.
• Assist in maintaining a healthy backlog ready for sprints across teams.
• Coordinate with Fed BAs and Product Owners to resolve impediments promptly.
• Lead process flow mapping and narrative development for business processes.

Skills

Agile Methodology

Data Analysis

Functional Requirements

Tools

React

NodeJS

Camunda

Flowable

MS Bookings

SharePoint

Job description

Type of Requisition: Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: Other

Job Family: Functional Experts

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Agile Methodology, Data Analysis, Functional Requirements Certifications:

None Experience:

5 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description

Senior Business Analyst

The Case Management Modernization (CMM) Program is an initiative to support the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AO) develop a modern cloud-based solution to support all federal courts across the United States which are grouped into three types namely, Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy. This modernized case management system will eventually replace the current Case Management and Electronic Case Filing (CM/ECF) system.The Sr Business Analyst will work as part of an agile development team to build and support the modernization of enterprise-class software applications.

Responsibilities

• Participate in all Agile Scrum ceremonies, program planning meetings, to establish and document customer journey mapping strategies for the CMM Program.
• Take ownership of the Backlog decomposition strategy and ensure consistent implementation across the product backlog.
• Work closely with the customer to ensure alignment with their expectations while ensuring strict control of Scope.
• Provide transparency throughout the backlog decomposition process using up-to-date metrics and automated dashboards.
• Provide a clear Definition of Done and Definition of Ready and ensure strict compliance across all work items.
• Ensure a healthy prioritized backlog of work items 'ready for sprint' (at least 4 sprints worth) for each development team.
• Proactively participate in PI planning and provide clarity on deliverables, dependencies, milestones, timelines and sequencing of tasks.
• Work closely with Fed BA's and Product Owners to promptly resolve impediments and clarify requirements with the customer in a timely manner.
• Conduct periodic retrospectives and/or CoP meetings with BAs to collect feedback, identify areas for continual improvement and cross-train staff.
• Tirelessly pursue opportunities for streamlining and improving the efficiency of the end-to- end process as it pertain ...
• Proactively identify and manage risks.
• Promptly identify and communicate mitigations plans.
• Address issues promptly and follow up diligently until they are resolved.
• Collaborate closely with the Architects, Testers, PO's and stakeholders to ensure end-to-end alignment with the deliverables.
• Update and maintain process maps utilizing Microsoft Visio to provide visual depiction of the business process flows as well as flows at the subprocesses with two-level depth.
• Develop narratives that accompany business process flows at each level articulating the details of each activity and with the business and technical data flowing between each activity on the process flows.
• Participate in process flow mapping and analysis sessions with CMM Backlog team and Court staff.
• Capture input from stakeholders, analyze the opportunities for standardization versus required variations among Court types, unique local rules, and any other variations.
• Validate completed work items to ensure they satisfy all requirements and aspects of the definition of done and free of errors/omissions.
• Support Manual and automation testers to design appropriate test cases and test steps for thorough validation of work items.
• Maintain process flow and narratives in an easily accessible, hierarchical fashion so that an end-user can drill down a given process map at each level.

Required Experience

• Experience supporting multiple teams and ensuring the overall objective is met.
• Experience analyzing, decomposing and documenting detailed requirements (including but not limited to consulting with product owners, customers, key stakeholders, or end users).
• Experience developing requirements into technical user stories with clearly documented Definition of Done and acceptance criteria.
• Experience assisting the Product Owner or Team lead in defining the product scope, vision, and roadmap.
• Experience providing system analysis and subject matter expertise on issues and bugs.
• Experience conducting business process analysis, workflow analysis and business process re-engineering.
• Experience designing new cloud-based IT solutions for integration and deployment with active legacy applications.
• Experience supporting green field application development projects.
• Experience supporting tech stacks which include React, NodeJS preferred.
• Experience supporting the implementation of COTS solutions (such as Cammunda, Flowable, MS Bookings and SharePoint embedded or other document processing tools) and is a plus.
• Experience providing technical assistance and guidance through performing gap analyses, workflow analysis, Analysis of