Senior Business Analyst

Steampunk•McLean, VA

20h

About The Position

Steampunk is looking for an experienced Business Analyst / Scrum Master with an appetite for taking on new challenges. You're going to be challenged each day with new and complex mission and delivery opportunities as you serve as the team lead for a major mission system. Steampunk is the explosive collision of human-centered design and traditional government contracting. An employee-owned company with a startup mindset and time-tested approaches tailored for the federal government, we’re passionate about creating solutions that are impactful, practical, scalable, and most importantly, that meet our clients’ ever-changing needs. At Steampunk, we believe in disrupting the status quo and setting the pace in the ecosystem of government contractors, while repurposing tried-and-true methodologies. We believe in empowering our people to find creative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone.

Requirements

Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
5+ year experience with Scrum/Kanban Methodologies
5+ 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

Nice To Haves

CSM, PSM, and/or SAFe certification
Salesforce experience

Responsibilities

Serve as the Scrum Master and Business Analyst on an Agile software development team.
Manage Agile/Information Technology related projects and be well versed in software development life cycle and project management methodologies.
Oversee scrum team for key high-priority project for the client.
Identify and mitigate risks.
Work with key stakeholders/customers to support planning and delivery of technical IT development Agile projects.
Help define 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.
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.
Support managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and help to implement an effective system of project governance.
Make sure the teams are effective and focused on their work.
Coach the teams in their understanding of the delivery process, the agile mindset, and client values.
Help the team use their time wisely and avoid distractions.
Serve business engagement by making sure team issues are escalated, worked, and resolved.
Lead the collection, capture, and management of mission user needs from prioritization, concept development, and feature writing to support development and deployment.
Apply different techniques to facilitate meetings and workshops, create a shared understanding with stakeholders, and engage team-members to produce product and portfolio roadmaps.
Collaborate 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.