Business/Systems Analyst

About the position

We are seeking a high caliber Agile Business Analyst to support a government customer. As the Agile Business Analyst, you will work with a Government Product Owner to clearly define business requirements, translate business requirements into functional, user, and system requirements that delivers on the Product Owners vision and provides value to the user community. The Agile Business Analyst will translate the Government Product Owner’s requests along value streams that explain What is being requested and Why. Be an active Team member on a high performing Agile Team implementing the CACI Agile Solution Factory execution model. Be an active member of the Business Analyst Guild and participate in continuous learning activities while also serving as a mentor to junior Business Analyst. Be responsible for managing the Agile Team’s Product Backlog and ensuring there is enough work is decomposed and meets the Definition of Ready for the Team to load releases and sprints. Work with the Product Owner to clearly define testable Acceptance Criteria. Managing the Team Product Backlog through decomposing and refining product owner requests into Features and Stories that focus on bringing value to the users. Your focus is on What is being requested not How to deliver. Use the Agile Project Management Software to manage the Product Backlog for decomposing work into Features and Stories, mapping dependencies, ensuring all backlog items have required fields filled out. Support the Team to ensure implementation meets the Acceptance Criteria Product Owner’s expectations prior to delivery via testing and Team demonstrations to you. Support the Team to ensure that clear, concise documentation is produced that accurately covers the Acceptance Criteria of stories and change requests. Facilitate requirement gathering sessions by working with the Product Owner/Stakeholders to define and document Product Owner requests that will be developed by the Team. Bring decomposed Features and Stories to the Team for backlog refinement where the Team will estimate work and ask clarifying questions. Serve as a proxy for the Product Owner and primary contact for Subject Matter Experts.

Responsibilities

• Work with a Government Product Owner to define business requirements.
• Translate business requirements into functional, user, and system requirements.
• Manage the Agile Team’s Product Backlog.
• Ensure work is decomposed and meets the Definition of Ready.
• Define testable Acceptance Criteria with the Product Owner.
• Decompose and refine product owner requests into Features and Stories.
• Use Agile Project Management Software to manage the Product Backlog.
• Support the Team to ensure implementation meets Acceptance Criteria.
• Produce clear, concise documentation covering Acceptance Criteria.
• Facilitate requirement gathering sessions with Product Owner/Stakeholders.
• Bring decomposed Features and Stories to the Team for backlog refinement.
• Serve as a proxy for the Product Owner and primary contact for Subject Matter Experts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in requirements elicitation, documentation, analysis, and management activities across all phases of the agile software development cycle.
• Experience working with Agile teams using Scrum or scaling implementations such as the CACI Agile Solution Factory (ASF) or SAFe.
• Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Story composition, Functional Decomposition, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Paired Programming, Automated Testing.
• Experience with ITSM principles and ITIL Best practices.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience in technical writing with a demonstrated ability to review, edit and produce documentation that is clear, concise, accurate and provides full coverage of requirements.
• Excellent analytical skills, including the ability to integrate information from multiple sources.
• Ability to work independently and interact regularly with government and non-government stakeholders at multiple levels of authority.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge and experience with the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK).
• Experience supporting programs that have implemented the Agile Solution Factory or SAFe.
• Certified SAFe Agilist and/or experience working as a BA, Scrum Master or PO within Agile methodology (Scrum or SAFe preferred).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT or other technical degree.
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA) certification.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits such as healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
• Flexible time off benefit.
• Access to robust learning resources.