Business Analyst Junior

General Dynamics Information Technology•USA MD Home Office (MDHOME), MD

3d•$64,230 - $80,500•Remote

About The Position

At GDIT, people are our differentiators. Our work depends on a Junior Business Analyst joining our team to assist the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) in managing its appeals workloads. As a Junior Business Analyst supporting the DevSecOps team that maintains a Medicare appeals/claims platform, you will help ensure that American citizens have access to important services. The Junior Business Analyst collaborates with the DevSecOps team, PMO, client Product Owner, and other stakeholders to ensure complete communication loops, that information in Jira tickets is current in nearly real-time, that documentation is updated at appropriate intervals, and that they participate in Agile ceremonies fully.

Requirements

Experience with Agile methodologies and project management using tools including Jira.
2+ years’ experience in business analysis and systems development.
1+ years with Agile methodologies and project management using tools including Jira.
Working knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Experience with managing project requirements.
Experience creating reports and supporting presentations to communicate sprint status, sprint planning status, and other development-related reports.
Excellent communication skills to convey complex concepts and workflows to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to pass HHS and company background check to obtain a Public Trust Level 5 clearance.

Nice To Haves

Understanding of and ability to communicate diagrams and documentation to that represent complex architectural concepts.
Understanding of data integrity, data privacy, and compliance.
Business level understanding of low code application platforms, and best practices.

Responsibilities

Support client stakeholders, contract leadership, the product owner, the Lead Business Analyst, and the DevSecOps team to gather and analyze business requirements, write user stories, manage and identify functional requirements, and participate in agile ceremonies.
Understand the current "as-is" platform and its business processes and workflows.
Approach user stories with curiosity, asking questions about how each user story or task fit into the larger picture to identify dependencies, related tasks, and hidden requirements.
Identify potential risks and issues early in the project lifecycle and follow PMO processes to report them.
Support improvements to improve the overall project and our ways of working, tightening up agile processes and improving the quality of client-facing reporting.
Help define the scope of each release and support the creation of documentation to ensure repeatable processes across all areas of DevSecOps.
Provide detailed documentation including user stores, use cases and functional specifications to serve as reference to developers.
Define acceptance criteria and work with QA to verify the product meets the business requirements.
Collaborate with the development and QA teams to continuously improve processes, fill in gaps in development or testing processes, and help support successful releases and patches.
Verify and validate product features and requirements to ensure that they meet acceptance criteria.
Define standards related to user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional requirements alongside the Scrum Master and enforce them.

Benefits

401K with company match.
Comprehensive health and wellness packages.
Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.
Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications.
Cutting-edge technology you can learn from.
Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays.
variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.