Appian Business Analyst

Who Are We?   
Groundswell is a premier technology integrator resolutely committed to solving the most complex challenges facing federal agencies today. Our name, Groundswell, represents our commitment to be an unstoppable, seismic change in government. Ours is a small company culture with big company reach and results.  Are you ready to be audacious, be bold and drive change at a rapid pace?  Join us, where we’ll make a greater impact together.   

Who We are Looking for: 

Groundswell is growing and looking for an Appian Business Analyst to join our team! This person will be responsible for partnering with our Appian product teams and potentially engaging customers to generate requirements specific to Appian applications. 
  

What You’ll Do: 

• Support Product Dev Managers in defining the minimum viable product (MVP) for a given application / product and the supporting release plans. 

• Conduct requirement discovery, data modeling, process improvement/reengineering analysis, process design, and models BPM applications, user interface design, and data interface requirement discovery.  

• Conduct discovery workshops with customer stakeholders to collect and document solution requirements. 

• Collaborate with Product Dev Managers and technology stakeholders (e.g., Systems Architects) to define new and or enhanced product requirements and functionality. 

• Collaborate with Product Dev Managers to support the prioritization of feature enablers defined by architects within the product roadmap. 

• Deliver and maintain user engagement analytics for the purpose of characterizing users (i.e. sectors, demographics, needs, requirements, etc.) and supporting case studies and other anecdotal information 

• Author user stories by breaking down big problems into small stories that provide value to users, with detailed acceptance criteria that developers and QA can rely upon to complete their tasks. 

• Work continuously with teams to provide answers, feedback and direction on work items, enablers, user stories. 

• Consult Product Dev Managers for guidance and clarity on the product vision, roadmap, requirements. 

• Collaborate with team to define the sprint plan based on the priority outlined within the overall product vision and roadmap. 

• Refine product requirements based on the input obtained through user engagements, sprint showcases, and demos. 

• Collaborate with the team to prepare the estimates for the user stories within the product backlog. 

• Conduct the formal review and acceptance of user stories implemented by a team. 

• Identify, track, and manage risks; escalate when necessary. 

• Identify process improvement opportunities and recommend solutions.  

• Design and implement complex data models based on customer application requirements. 

• Use tools such as TFS, Jira and Github for different project management responsibilities 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, IT or related field 

• 5+ years of experience in performing business analysis and refining requirements for information systems.  

• Strong communication at all levels of an organization (written and verbal) 

• Detail oriented with experience working on several products at one time 

• Experience working with common process-based documentation methods including use cases, Agile user stories, and process modeling.  

Desired Qualifications: 

• 1+ years of hands-on Appian solution implementation experience