Business Analyst

Spatial Front•Austin, WA

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI) is seeking a Business Analyst to join their team. This role is an integral part of supporting modernization efforts, working directly with customers and team members. The Business Analyst will translate product strategy and roadmap into well-defined user stories, features, and enablers to realize the product vision and enhance the customer experience. Additionally, this role will perform Scrum Master duties, including meeting facilitation and biweekly testing of completed user stories. This is a hybrid position requiring candidates to reside in the Austin, TX, or Washington, DC metro areas.

Requirements

Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in related field
Minimum 2-5 years of experience is required
Ability to pass a US Public Trust background investigation for access to the client site and computing systems
Must have experience working with Agile/Scrum
Must have experience with Jira
Strong work ethic, analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
Excellent communication skills
In order to meet the clearance requirements for this opportunity, candidates must be a US Citizen.
You must have lived in the US for the past three (3) years.
All candidates will be subject to a complete background check to include, but not limited to Criminal History, Education Verification, Professional Certification Verification, Verification of Previous Employment and Credit History.

Nice To Haves

Proven experience writing detailed functional and technical requirements

Responsibilities

Analyze user needs to determine functional and cross-functional requirements throughout the standard development life cycle
Collaborate with stakeholders and product teams to decompose large epic stories into features and user stories that can be understood and approved by members of the development team
Develop strategic frameworks, providing a basic structure of program missions, vision, and goals
Document stories and manage backlog in Jira
Provide product management support such as prioritization and backlog grooming
Provide analysis for associated tasks during the life cycle
Coach the team to create better solutions, improve business results, and better their processes
Facilitate team meetings, including Backlog Refinement / Iteration Planning / Daily Stand-Up / Iteration Review / Iteration Retrospective
Remove impediments and barriers to the team’s progress
Communicate and track agreed upon team metrics
Communicate and coordinate meetings, presentations, and develop work products
Develop test cases
Ensure requirements are tested and provide expected functionality
Project planning
Scope management
Change management
Issues management
Risk management
Quality management
Problem solving and conflict-resolution
Project development from inception to deployment
Demonstrated capability in managing multi-task contracts and/or Sub-contracts of various types and complexity