Job Title: Senior Agile Business Analyst
Location: Hybrid remote with occasional client visits in Springfield,
VA. 1 day per week up to 2 depending on the project.
Clearance: Must be a U.S. Citizen, this opportunity supports a
government contract. Active Public Trust or DHS EOD/clearance preferred.
Description:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Agile Business Analyst who can
support our growing Automation line of business. We are looking for
someone in the greater Washington, DC area to play a lead role in
providing agile business analyst consulting services to our clients.
This opportunity is specific to our Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA) client.
Our TSA customers are using UiPath and other automation tools to create
business process workflows and process automations to revolutionize
their business through improved efficiency, reduced costs, and
redeploying personnel from repetitive tasks to more value-added
activities. As part of a cross functional agile team, the Senior Agile
Business Analyst would lead customer interactions related to
requirements elicitation, creating the resulting features/epics/user
stories, creating and supporting training and documentation. This is a
fast-paced, demanding environment with access to senior client
leadership, so the Senior Agile Business Analyst must be comfortable
interacting with and advising government stakeholders across multiple
levels.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work as part of an integrated agile team (e.g., Project Manager, Scrum
Master, Software Architect, Developers), government stakeholders, and
subject matter experts to define and deploy intelligent automation
solutions.
- Support discovery of technical requirements working in close
collaboration with the product owner and business users across multiple
levels, including senior management.
- Partner with Product Owners to provide ongoing management and
refinement of Product Backlogs by decomposing larger features into small
Backlog items, promoting clear and concise User Stories and Acceptance
Criteria, and guiding prioritization.
- Assist with both long-term and short-term planning, contributing
expertise and understanding of business needs to activities like Release
Planning and Sprint Planning.
- Provide project planning, management, communication, and coordination
support to enterprise IT initiatives.
- Facilitate collaborative planning sessions with senior-level business
and IT stakeholders within the components.
- Analyze business problems, understand the business process, and create
process flow diagrams used as the basis for the solution design.
- Utilize excellent organizational skills to adhere to project
deadlines, create and maintain deliverables, and proactively achieve
project milestones.
- Establish client relationships; and ensure high-quality deliverables.
- Proactively prioritize project tasks and identify project issues and
risks.
- Conduct research, analyze information needs, and perform analysis to
support the delivery of relevant artifacts including business process
diagrams, reports, and presentation.
- Review and edit documents developed by others to ensure accuracy and
quality of content, organization, language, format consistency, and
conformance with established standards.
Required Experience and Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college, university, or academic
institution in the United States.
- 6+ years’ experience as an Agile Business Analyst
- 4+ years’ experience working on projects for the Federal government.
- Experience with client management including scoping and expectation
setting is a must.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to
interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and
subject matter experts.
- Client friendliness with the ability to build and maintain trusting
and value-added client relationships.
- Experience working in agile teams.
- Comfortable achieving a consensus across a diverse group of
stakeholders.
Arena Technical Resources, LLC, (ATR) is an
Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) who will provide equal employment
opportunity to employees and applicants for employment without regard to
race, ethnicity, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age,
veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, marital status, family structure, genetic information, or
mental or physical disability.