Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a talented Senior Functional Analyst Location: Remote Department: Veterans Affairs Type: Full Time Min. Experience: Experienced Security Clearance Level: Public Trust (MBI) Military Veterans are highly encouraged to apply! Essential Duties and Responsibilities Previous Federal Government experience and Security Clearance highly desired! Lead the capture of business requirements for software development teams Collaborate with business users, Information Technology (IT), and leadership to elaborate and document requirements in an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool Manage requirements in an ALM tool Perform Agile requirement management activities for a product team Perform the analysis of user needs to determine functional, cross-functional, and technical requirements Conduct user interviews, lead and facilitate sessions, and develop business process models and formal specifications Work with customers, team members, stakeholder users, and other contractors to gather and document business, functional, technical, and non-technical requirements Perform elaboration of user stories and decomposition of stories into backlog items and determine acceptance criteria Use an ALM tool (JIRA) for Requirements Management, Testing, and Defect Management to create and manage requirements, epics, sub-epics, and user stories Perform the collection, tracking, and monitoring of system and business requirements Validate requirements and integration Conduct backlog refinement sessions Coordinate with Systems Engineers to assess impact on technical solutions Manage and coordinate requirements for various projects Write and deliver project documents to the client Identify and manage risks and issues impacting the progress and outcome of the project Develop and maintain the scheduled project/product backlog(s) Own and manage requirements change control Develop Change Requests per established policies and procedures Facilitate accurate configuration management for project-related artifacts Identify, document, verify, and track traceability amongst requirements, test cases, and potential risks and impediment Collect, analyze, manage, and report key Program and Product Team execution status and metrics across all aspects of the Agile product development lifecycle using SAFe Perform analysis to identify required tasks and their interrelationships to establish well-documented stories Become a product functional Subject Matter Expert (SME) Lead and mentor junior analysts in accordance with strategy and direction established by the Team Lead Establish strong relationships with product and business owners Support development team as needed to help everyone understand the requirements’ details Follow Agile methodology (Scrum) and deliver requirements/specifications for Sprint teams Remove impediments from team members to achieve successful completion of Sprints Provide clear qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders Support change control processes established to monitor and control project scope