Senior Business Analyst

Steampunk • McLean, VA

2d • $100,000 - $160,000

About The Position

As a Steampunk Senior Business Analyst, you’ll be asked to serve as the Business Analyst on an Agile software development team.

Requirements

• Authorized to work for any U.S. employer
• 3+ year experience with Scrum/Kanban Methodologies
• 3+ Years experience serving as the Product Owner or Scrum Master or Business Analyst
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, MIS or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Ability to establish immediate credibility with clients, build consensus, and achieve goals through influence
• Ability to help teams write user stories/epics, identify dependencies, and design optimal solutions
• Flexibility to work with teams, individuals, and executives and willingness to help with a wide variety of work products and people
• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills
• Experience working in a studio / human centered design approach
• Proficiency in JIRA

Nice To Haves

• Business Analyst certification(s) a plus
• Salesforce Admin or Salesforce Business Analyst certification
• Preferred experience in serving as a Scrum Master.
• Preferred Federal Civilian Client Experience.

Responsibilities

• Apply different techniques to facilitate meetings and workshops, create a shared understanding with stakeholders, and engage team-members to produce product and portfolio road-maps
• Define help project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value; prepare and distribute progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviations from plans; and perform delivery planning for assigned projects.
• Support managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and help to implement an effective system of project governance.
• Serves business engagement by making sure team issues are escalated, worked, and resolved
• Collaborates with stakeholders and product teams to decompose large epics into features and user stories that can be understood and approved by members of the development team.
• Document Acceptance Criteria in stories in a way that both development team and business stakeholders can understand and agree on the content.
• Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work; and mentoring and developing team members.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level