Business Analyst

Credence•McLean, VA

23h•$120,000 - $150,000

About The Position

At Credence, we support our clients’ mission-critical needs, powered by technology. We provide cutting-edge solutions, enterprise modernization, including AI/ML, and advanced intelligence capabilities, to the largest defense and health federal organizations. Through partnership and trust, we increase mission success for warfighters and secure our nation for a better future. We are privately held, are repeatedly recognized as a top place to work, and have been on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list for the last 12 years. We practice servant leadership and believe that by focusing on the success of our clients, team members, and partners, we all achieve greater success. Credence has an immediate opening for a Business Analyst who will be primarily responsible for supporting the Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Automated Addressing Systems, Digital Transformation program. The Business Analyst is expected to work across job functions and collaborate with team members and clients extensively. Your main tasks will include Scrum team support, performing detailed requirements elicitation and analysis, documenting processes and performing functionality testing. To succeed in this role, you should have a natural analytical way of thinking and be able to bridge communication gaps between technical and non-technical stakeholders. Secondarily, you will be expected to analyze internal processes, determine where they can be improved, and implement sustainable and scalable change.

Requirements

US citizen with the ability to obtain a security clearance is required
Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or equivalent combination of education and experience
5 years of applicable experience in agile business requirements or a related discipline
Ability to elicit requirements, develop analyses, determine specifications, and verify outcomes in a scrum environment
Experience with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN 2.0) required, certification preferred
Demonstrated experience documenting user stories and defining acceptance criteria
Ability to support application users by investigating, communicating, and resolving their problems
Direct experience with Software Development Life Cycle and processes in a team environment. Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology preferred
Experience with knowledge management, data management, and process modeling tools, systems, and procedures

Nice To Haves

Experience with Defense Automated Addressing System (DAAS), Defense Logistics Agency, or Department of War helpful

Responsibilities

Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing, documenting, and implementing solutions.
Analyzing business and system requirements
Eliciting requirements from senior Government staff to document business processes using BPMN 2.0 and supporting documentation.
Collaboration with development team and key stakeholder teams to analyze and understand requirements, then transforming the requirements into a valid solution
Facilitating Joint Application Design sessions to define workflow and features for a User Interface.
Work with UI/UX designer to establish the requirements to hand-off the design to them for further refinement.
Work with Automated Testing team to verify functional requirements have been met and are effectively regression tested with each development sprint.
Work closely with cross-functional teams to meet project deadlines and deliver software solutions that meet or exceed client expectations.
Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings.
Focusing on solutions rather than the confines of a particular role.
Collaborate on an ongoing project in both new and enhancements development between engineers, developers, analyst and other team members
Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.
Staying up to date on the latest process and IT advancements to automate and modernize systems.
Documenting and communicating the results of your efforts.
Benchmarking our approaches against the latest changes and standards in the field.
Shifting between projects and tasks with ease.
Related duties or special projects as assigned