Sr. Business Analyst

GovCIO; Columbia (SC); Remote; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading government IT services provider is seeking a Sr. Business Analyst to work remotely within the Continental United States. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in requirement gathering, user story writing, and managing a team. This role involves collaborating with business and technology teams to ensure comprehensive system requirements are met. Candidates must be able to obtain a Suitability/Public Trust clearance.

Qualifications

• 5 - 8 years of experience or commensurate experience in business analysis.
• Experience gathering requirements and writing documentation.
• Extensive Jira experience building epics and user stories.
• Experience managing Business Analysts.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with business and technology teams to ascertain system requirements.
• Analyze business processes to develop new information systems.
• Document product requirements and develop test procedures.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope.

Skills

Requirement gathering

User story writing

Jira

SharePoint

Confluence

Team management

Agile methodology

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Suite

Job description

Overview

GovCIO is currently seeking a Sr. Business Analyst to join a cross-functional team dedicated to delivering impactful features. This position is fully remote and available to candidates within the Continental United States (CONUS).

Responsibilities

Coordinates with business and technology teams, ascertaining system requirements, such as program functions, output requirements, input data acquisition, and system techniques and controls. Provides technical/functional expertise in identifying, evaluating, developing, and supporting systems. They have the business knowledge and perspective of a particular business and the IT needs of that customer. Requires knowledge of computer system capabilities, business processes, and workflows. May also be functional experts in financial, program control or logistical areas.

• Analyzes business and technical process to formulate and develop new and modified business information processing systems.
• Interfaces between systems architects/programmers and users located in a specialized area to ensure that information technology designs meet the needs of the end users within the organization.
• Documents product/service requirements and develops test procedures to ensure user requests are carried out.
• Interacts with testing requirements to ensure traceability and test coverage.
• Requires general-logic knowledge of system capabilities without necessarily the ability to program.
• Collaborates with business partners to determine project scope and vision.
• Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Works with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
• Works directly with business partners to track customer needs, questions, and related work items.
• Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
• Develops and utilizes standard templates to write requirements specifications and can modify them to support specific systems objectives accurately and concisely.
• Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
• Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to members of the scrum to help guide execution of activities.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's with 5 - 8 years (or commensurate experience)
• Experience gathering requirements, writing requirement documentation, and working with developers to assess business needs.
• Extensive Jira experience building epics, issues, bugs etc., and managing writing comprehensive user stories that meet definition of ready/done.
• Extensive experience with SharePoint, Confluence, and Microsoft Suite.
• Experience managing a team of Business Analysts and Technical Writers.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience supporting integrations as a Business Analyst specifically in backend processes without GUI interfaces
• Exposure to VA Corporate Database, MPI, VA Profile Database, existing API services in VA network.
• Experience with VA and/or other Federal Agencies.
• Demonstrated experience in a remote work environment.
• Well versed in Agile Methodology, the VA Veteran-Focused Integration Process (VIP) project management methodology.

Clearance Required: Ability to obtain and maintain a Suitability/Public Trust clearance

Company Overview

GovCIO is a team of transformers--people who are passionate about transforming government IT. Every day, we make a positive impact by delivering innovative IT services and solutions that improve how government agencies operate and serve our citizens.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. EOE, including disability/vets.