CLOSED - 2558 - Lead Business Analyst
Hybrid / Herndon, Virginia
Secret
GENERAL DUTIES:
- Mentor, guide Business Analysts on the program; Create standards and guidelines on user stories and Acceptance criteria
- Support all project phases from inception through completion.
- Work with the customer to capture and translate high level functional, technical, and performance requirements into detailed acceptance criteria for epics / user stories in a Scaled Agile Framework environment (SAFe)
- Decomposition of high-level information into details; abstracting low-level information; distinguishing requests vs needs; distinguishing requirements vs solutions
- Assist Deployment Leads, engineers, and other internal stakeholders with client facing activities to identify and define project requirements, scope and objectives
- Works with the development team to ensure that they understand the requirements
- Provide business area and technical expertise to management and stakeholders to facilitate planning, set direction, define business initiatives, and develop solutions to business information systems needs and requirements.
- Be able to manage across multiple projects, changing priorities, and work independently with little oversight.
- Participate in the agile ceremonies and interface with the agile team(s) and other program staff as required.
- Communicate effectively in written and verbal communication coupled with strong listening skills
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and 10-12 years’ experience; Master's Degree and 6-8 years' experience; or four (4) years of additional relevant experience in lieu of Degree
- Strong understanding of business and technical processes to formulate and develop new and modified business information processing systems
- Experience eliciting and documenting functional, technical and performance requirements
- Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate complex technical ideas to audiences with varied technical backgrounds
- Excellent administrative/organizational abilities
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience researching new technology for inclusion/use on customer programs
- Prior work experience in a fast-paced, variable environment
- Scaled Agile Framework experience, working as a part of a Scrum Team
- Experience using engineering environments and tools that support agile development, and especially SAFe, such as JIRA, Rally, VersionOne, Confluence, IBM CLM/ELM
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