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, ensuring alignment with business objectives and quality standards.
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