Sr. Business Analyst

Project Overview:

The Sr. Business Analyst role is an integral team member who works with the various groups to support modernization efforts. For this role, the candidate will work directly with the customer and team members. They will be translating product strategy and roadmap into well-defined user stories, features, and enablers that will realize the product vision and improve the customer experience. Perform Scrum Master duties, meeting facilitation, and engage in bi-weekly testing of the completed user stories.

Agile/Scrum experience is a must have!

Primary responsibilities:

• Analyze user needs to determine functional and cross-functional requirements throughout the standard development life cycle.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and product teams to decompose large epic stories into features and user stories that can be understood and approved by members of the development team.
• Document stories and manage backlog in Jira.
• Provide product management support such as prioritization and backlog grooming
• Provide analysis for associated tasks during the life cycle.
• Coach the team to create better solutions, improve business results, and better their processes.
• Facilitate team meetings, including Backlog Refinement / Iteration Planning / Daily Stand-Up / Iteration Review / Iteration Retrospective
• Remove impediments and barriers to the team’s progress.
• Communicate and track agreed upon team metrics.
• Support the Project Manager to communicate and coordinate meetings, presentations, and develop teamwork products.
• Develop test cases.
• Ensure requirements are tested and provide expected functionality.

Education/Experience:

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in related field.
• At least five (5+) years of experience as Business Analyst and experience with User experience.
• Minimum 2 years of experience managing IT software development as a Scrum Master.
• Minimum 2 years of experience with application testing.
• Must have experience working with Agile/Scrum.
• Must have experience with Jira.
• Strong work ethic, analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills.
• SAFe Certification or equivalent Scrum Master Certification preferred.

Additional Information:

• In order to meet the clearance requirements for this opportunity, candidates must be authorized to work in the US
• All candidates will be subject to a complete background check to include, but not limited to Criminal History, Education Verification, Professional Certification Verification, Verification of Previous Employment and Credit History.
• Public Trust background investigations can take approximately four to eight weeks and requires fingerprinting.

Other Information:

• The salary for this position is $70,000 - $110,000 annually
• For information on SFI's benefits please visit http://www.spatialfront.com/pages/career.html
• This is a full-time W2 position.
• Please no agencies, third parties, or corp-to-corp.
• Spatial Front Inc. is an Equal-opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
• Spatial Front Inc. participates in E-Verify.