Associate Business Analyst
US-VA-McLean
External
Req #: 6431
Type: Full-Time
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Overview: As an Associate Business Analyst you will lead the collection, capture, and management of mission user needs from prioritization, concept development, and feature writing to support development and deployment. Provide expertise in business process and system analysis, design, improvement, and implementation efforts and in translating business process needs into technical requirements. Provide expertise in change management and training support. Provide organizational and strategic planning for a wide variety of technical and functional environments. Provide expertise in, but not limited to, Configuration Management, Strategic Planning, Knowledge Management, Business Analysis and Technical Analysis. Responsibilities: * Envision, develop, and create requirements to improve tools to streamline processes to gain efficiencies and improve key metrics. * Apply different techniques to facilitate meetings and workshops, create a shared understanding with stakeholders, and engage team-members to produce product and portfolio roadmaps. * Collaborates with stakeholders and product teams to decompose large epics into features and user stories that can be understood and approved by members of the development team. * Facilitate Increment and planning sessions with clients and team members to ensure that planned work is well defined, planned, articulated, and understood. * Assist business analysts, team leads, clients, and other team members in the use of JIRA as an Agile Lifecycle Management Tool to track work within the program across multiple product teams. * Provide guidance and assistance in the usage of JIRA for reporting of work progress against epics and other larger bodies of work or types of work. * Document Acceptance Criteria in stories in a way that both development team and business stakeholders can understand and agree on the content. * Use excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and present findings and recommendations. Qualifications: * Bachelor's Degree * 2+ years of total experience * Eligible to obtain and maintain a government security clearance * Experience using Agile methodologies * Strong critical thinking skills * Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical staff * Ability to help teams write user stories/epics, identify dependencies, and design optimal solutions * Excellent oral and written communication skills * Experience with Atlassian products such as JIRA and Confluence * Must have experience with Steampunks Design Intelligence Principals
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