Key skills
AWSCloudPostgresServerlessJiraAgileScrumCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Support a large-scale government agency initiative to modernize a complex, interdependent system of systems migrating from legacy on-premises platforms to AWS Cloud Native architectures.
- Conduct structured discovery sessions to understand legacy on-prem systems, workflows, data dependencies, and integration points.
- Document current-state (As-Is) and target-state (To-Be) capabilities supporting AWS Cloud Native migration.
- Support development of phased migration plans (e.g., refactor vs. lift-and-shift decisions).
- Identify cross-system dependencies that must be sequenced to prevent downstream rework or hybrid thrashing.
- Collaborate with architects to ensure requirements align to target cloud-native design principles.
- Develop modernization EPICs aligned to cloud-native re-architecture, data ingestion modernization, integration redesign, automation of manual workflow gates, DevSecOps enablement.
- Decompose EPICs into features and refined user stories with clear acceptance criteria, testable outcomes, and defined dependencies.
- Establish initial product backlog in collaboration with Product Owners.
- Ensure traceability from high-level modernization objectives to sprint-ready user stories.
- Collaborate with Requirements Engineers in other workstreams to coordinate interdependent user stories, align sequencing of integration capabilities, prevent duplication of effort, and manage shared components.
- Maintain visibility of system-of-systems impacts when new requirements are introduced.
- Support integrated release planning across workstreams.
- Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Standups, Reviews & Retrospectives).
- Work closely with Product Owners to prioritize backlog items, groom stories for sprint readiness, and ensure stories meet INVEST principles.
- Define and document Definition of Done (DoD) criteria including code complete, automated tests implemented, documentation updated, security checks passed.
- Support incremental delivery aligned to modernization milestones.
- Develop requirements artifacts supporting architecture review board submissions, interface control documentation, security authorization processes.
- Maintain end-to-end Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), ensuring requirements are testable and align with validation frameworks.
- Define requirements for high-volume data processing systems, event-driven and serverless architectures, API-based integration patterns, and database modernization (e.g., Postgres/Aurora migration).
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in requirements engineering or technical business analysis.
- Demonstrated experience developing migration plans from legacy on-premises systems to AWS Cloud Native environments.
- Experience documenting FEATURES/EPICs and decomposing into detailed user stories.
- Experience building and managing Agile backlogs in Jira or equivalent tools.
- Experience working within Agile Scrum Teams.
- Strong understanding of Definition of Done, acceptance criteria, and backlog grooming.
- Experience supporting data-intensive or system-of-systems modernization programs.
- Strong technical literacy in cloud-native architectures (AWS preferred).
- U.S. Citizenship required.
- Experience supporting regulated or federal environments.
- Familiarity with legacy analytical or SAS-based systems.
- Experience supporting DevSecOps-driven delivery models.
- Experience documenting integration workflows and API contracts.
- Experience coordinating across multiple Product Owners.
- SAFe or enterprise-scale Agile experience.
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Cloud
- Postgres
Benefits
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance