Business Analyst

ALTA IT Services, LLC is a leader in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. They are seeking a Business Analyst to work on a project implementing capabilities for an enterprise financial software system, analyzing requirements and developing user stories while collaborating with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• The Business Analyst will be working on a project to implement capabilities for an enterprise financial software system and web application on an Agile product development team
• They analyze requirements, develop user stories, and work closely with stakeholders, UX designers, application architects, and developers to ensure technical and system requirements are accounted for
• The analyst will also work closely with the Scrum Master and Product Owner to plan and organize Sprints
• Critically reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs, ultimately producing clear user stories, documentation, and other deliverables such as use cases, flow diagrams, architecture diagrams, etc
• Facilitates discussions with the right stakeholders to clarify the scope
• Works closely with product owners and managers to convert business requirements use cases into actionable tasks for the development team
• Writes high-quality user stories and ensures stories are refined and pointed in a timely manner to enable planned milestones
• Leads and executes efforts to produce documentation related to system information architecture and processes, which may include technical requirements, functional specifications, data flow diagrams, high-level test cases, requirements traceability matrices, flow charts, wireframes/mockups, user stories, and use case documentation
• Conducts presentations and communicates product features to both technical and non-technical communities and aids in the coordination and communication of cross-team initiatives
• Paving and planning for technical project execution, tracking, presenting, and incorporating data-driven metrics to drive improvements, defining and recording current and future business processes and identifying potential improvements
• The position will require working closely with Program and Project Managers and Project Architect / Technical Lead
• Liaise with internal and external project stakeholders to help coordinate agile across the large program
• Work with Product Owner to ensure a groomed, quality Agile backlog Maintain project life-cycle documentation and tactical and strategic project tracking systems, primarily Atlassian Confluence, Jira, and Portfolio
• Prepare and deliver status updates, working sessions, and program area updates

Requirements:

• US Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust
• Bachelor's degree
• THREE (3) or more years of experience as a Business Analyst working on agile software development projects
• Solid understanding of Agile development life cycle and knowledge in both Agile and traditional project management
• Ability to communicate complex technical problems to a non-technical audience
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills
• Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities
• Ability to maintain a big-picture vision while defining very detailed requirements
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence
• Proficiency in MS Excel and MS PowerPoint, Visio or equivalent
• Experience working on a pilot phase implementation, including the ability to interface with customers to help clearly define scope and requirements
• Experience with federal government systems
• Experience working on, coordinating, and communicating on cross-team initiatives
• Familiar with information technology architecture, governance, and data exchange