Business Analyst Job Listing at SAIC in Ashburn, VA (Job ID 2512172)

Description

Description

SAIC is currently seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Senior Business Analyst to join our team based out of Ashburn, VA and begin an exciting and challenging career with SAIC.

This position is hybrid-remote and requires 2 days on-site in Ashburn, VA per week.

Position Responsibilities:  

• Conducting and facilitating status and planning meetings.
• Working with clients to create, review, and adjudicate Program Increment planning.
• Working with scrum teams to execute all objectives and epics in the Program Increment.
• Developing detailed documentation of client needs.
• Leading and facilitating grooming session with clients to gather, analyze, and decompose both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Using Atlassian Confluence and Jira. Maintaining a Kanban board.
• Creating detailed user stories, including acceptance criteria, mockups (if required), and any additional information to assist development.
• When scope changes occur mid-sprint or during a release cycle, working with Project Managers on adjustments and message to the clients.
• Interacting with Office of Information Technology (OIT) PMs and their customers.
• Developing and delivering business processes for requirements.
• Writing JQL queries in Jira.
• Performing requirements analysis to determine feasibility and to decompose requirements to concise and testable user stories.
• Developing and adhering to Definition-of-Ready and Definition-of-Done established by the team. 

Qualifications

Required Skills:  

• Business analyst with a minimum of 5 years of experience facilitating meetings with stakeholders to develop business and technical requirements.
• Ability to co-lead a technical development team of 6-10 team members.
• Experience in leading and facilitating scrum ceremonies.
• Experience with SAFe and Program Increment planning and execution.
• Strong time management to ensure meetings are done efficiently and within time box.
• Must be resourceful in removing team roadblocks.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), or Project Management Professional (PMP) is a plus.
• Experience defining software requirements for complex products using the Agile software delivery methodology.
• Ability to understand complex technical concepts and present them in simple terms to non-technical team members and clients.
• Candidate must be willing to work collaboratively in a team environment and manage multiple assignments. Must actively support, enforce, and contribute to the Agile practices adopted by the development team.
• Must have experience with enterprise web applications for the Federal government.
• Experience with 508 compliance.
• May provide end-user support to the field.

Required Education/Experience:  

• Bachelor's and five (5) years or more experience; Master's and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience.
• US Citizenship is required and ability to obtain a Customs and Border Protection Public Trust.
• BI Requirement
• Current holder of a DHS Public Trust clearance or the ability to obtain one.  
• Note: Employment will be contingent upon having/obtaining a DHS Public Trust clearance prior to starting.