Business Analyst (Mid-Level)

100% Remote Opportunity!

This is an excellent opportunity for a fast paced work environment. The focus of the company is to provide IT Services to Federal, and State Government agencies. The company offers a competitive benefits package.

• 3 weeks paid vacation
• 8 paid holidays
• 2 floating holidays
• Company pays 50% for health and dental insurance, and 100% for short-term and

long-term disability

• 401K plan with company matching
• Company support for technical workshops and training

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Job Responsibilities: *

• Evaluates the overall business need and assists with design and implementation to ensure solutions achieve overall business objectives.
• Acts as a primary member of the project team, overseeing and documenting decisions that occur throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead assigned technical Scrum Team in prioritizing features, user stories/tasks, and identifying team velocity.
• Work with Product Owners to identify priorities, participate in Feature/Sprint Reviews, Backlog Refinement, and lead team daily stand-up meetings.
• Elicits specific requirements using interviews, document analysis, use cases, scenarios, and task and workflow analysis.

• Draft User stories and acceptance criteria, support UAT, Sprint Demos and end user trainings.

• Serves as the liaison between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow.
• Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, reconciles conflicts and distinguishes user requests from the underlying true need.
• Collaborates on tasks with project team members with clear deliverables and expected time frames.
• Maintains accountabilities for all items.

Competencies:

• Lead meetings; keep team members focused and facilitate groups to reach timely consensus.
• Detect when a process is in trouble; draft impact analysis; propose and implement resolution.
• Listen to the customers; respond to their needs in a manner that provides added value.
• Provide the highest quality services which meet the needs and requirements of all customers.
• Committed to continuous improvement through empowerment and servant leadership.
• Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future; broad knowledge and perspective and is future oriented.

Other Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a relevant field preferred.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience as Business Analyst; Scrum Master experience preferred.
• Experience working with dynamic, highly collaborative teams, requiring close consultation and coordination.
• Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and mentoring skills.
• Ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolve conflict.
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment.
• Self-motivation and ability to stay focused in the middle of distraction.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $90,000.00 per year