Program & Portfolio Management - Analyst, Business

Ampcus Inc. • Reston, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Agile Senior Business Analyst serves as a key liaison between business stakeholders and Agile delivery teams, ensuring that evolving business needs are continuously understood, prioritized, and translated into actionable user stories and product features. This role is responsible for facilitating Agile ceremonies, refining backlogs, and driving iterative delivery of value through close collaboration with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, and QA teams. The incumbent ensures that business objectives are met by enabling adaptive planning, early delivery, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 5 years progressive experience in business analysis, systems analysis, testing or other analytical experience.
• Health insurance experience.
• Experience with interacting with large scrum teams.
• Agile experience.
• Hands-on experience with creating 10-15 user stories per week in JIRA.
• In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Proven ability to deliver high-quality Agile artifacts and contribute to cost-effective, value-driven solutions.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and business analysis core competencies.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office and Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps).
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with shifting priorities and multiple concurrent initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Interprets business needs and issues by gathering, eliciting, creating, analyzing, documenting, and validating the Business area’s user and/or technical (functional/non-functional) requirements.
• Responsible for the overall success of user acceptance testing, including documentation, verification, and release.
• Support end users with training and release communications.
• Identifies, documents, and troubleshoots problems utilizing acquired experience and knowledge of the relationships in systems, software, and processes.
• Maintain clear and concise documentation of business processes, workflows, and system interactions using Agile-friendly formats.
• Monitors and reports project status to identify and mitigate risks and to ensure quality and timely deliverables.
• Research and respond to policy-related inquiries impacting Agile delivery or system behavior.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree