Inadev is a company focused on building innovative customer-centric solutions for federal agencies and commercial companies. They are seeking a Junior Technical Business Analyst to support the full systems development lifecycle by translating business and technical requirements into Agile artifacts, while collaborating with Product Owners and stakeholders to ensure alignment with business objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Support the full systems development lifecycle, including requirements elicitation, analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of products, information systems, and business processes across multiple technical and data-driven environments
- Serve as the subject-matter expert on business requirements, user needs, system functionality, and business value, advising Product Owners and representing stakeholder priorities to delivery teams
- Elicit, document, and prioritize requirements using effective analytical and communication techniques to rapidly assess information and determine relevance
- Translate business goals and user needs into high-quality epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and other Agile artifacts, ensuring clarity, consistency, and testability
- Partner closely with Product Owners, business stakeholders, developers, testers, and project leaders to ensure backlog readiness, alignment to product vision, and maximized return on investment
- Support business intelligence and data initiatives by defining requirements for reports, dashboards, BI objects, and source systems that address key business questions and decision-making needs
- Participate in strategic planning efforts, evaluate workflows, organizational processes, and technology solutions, and recommend improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
- Own and enforce quality standards by ensuring requirements meet the Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, validating acceptance criteria, and addressing edge cases prior to development
- Monitor production issues and serve as an incident coordinator when needed, collaborating with technical teams to resolve issues within contractual service-level agreements
- Coordinate with internal teams to ensure completion of Office of Information Technology (OIT) requests and alignment on priorities and deliverables
- Contribute to recurring program deliverables and reporting activities (weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually) as requested by program leadership
- Provide training and guidance on system usage, expected behavior, and functional capabilities, and serve as an authority on defect versus expected behavior determinations
Requirements:
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Must be open to working during Eastern Standard Time business hours to meet customer requirements
- Ability to pass a 7-year background check and obtain/maintain a U.S. Government Clearance
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Must be able to prioritize and self-start
- Must be adaptable/flexible as priorities shift
- Must be enthusiastic and have passion for learning and constant improvement
- Must be open to collaboration, feedback and client asks
- Must enjoy working with a vibrant team of outgoing personalities
- Must possess a Bachelor's degree in business or technical discipline and at least 2 years of pertinent Business Analysis experience supporting Federal Government Software/Application Development programs
- Must have at least 2 years of experience working within Agile Frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban
- Must be proficient in using JIRA
- Must have client-facing (specifically with Product Owners or business Subject Matter Experts) experience in conducting backlog grooming and requirements gathering sessions
- Must be proficient in creating reasonable and accurate time estimates for assigned tasks
- Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills to be able to interact directly with non-technical and technical client stakeholders and act in a business-to-technical translation role, including generating effective visualizations
- CANDIDATES LOCAL TO THE DC/MD/VA METRO AREA ARE PREFERRED AND WILL RECEIVE PREFERENCE BUT THIS POSITION HAS THE ABILITY TO BE 100% REMOTE