As a Steampunk Senior Business Analyst, you’ll be asked to serve as the Business Analyst on an Agile software development team.
Contributions
- Must have experience managing Agile/Information Technology related projects and must be well versed in software development life cycle and project management methodologies
- Must be able to identify and mitigate risks.
- 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.
Required
- 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
- Business Analyst certification(s) a plus
- Salesforce Admin or Salesforce Business Analyst certification
Preferred
- Preferred experience in serving as a Scrum Master.
- Preferred Federal Civilian Client Experience.