General Dynamics Information Technology is a global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology, and mission services. They are seeking a Senior Business Systems Analyst to bridge the gap between business needs and the IT team, ensuring that solutions satisfy organizational objectives and optimize business functions at USPS.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate with Developers and service providers to ensure availability and task assignments
- Defines project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases, and elements and forming project team
- Establishes project estimates
- Provides support to the development and testing scrum teams
- Ensures delivered solutions are realized in time frame committed; work in conjunction with project sponsors to size and manage scope and risk
- Provides industry thought leadership to fellow team members across business and technical project dimensions solving complex business requirements
- Demonstrates forward thinking in how technology can support modernization efforts
- Incident Management – Ability to lead as a Critical Incident Manager to restore production applications impacting events
- Able to manage multiple IT projects simultaneously
- Able to present and communicate at all levels within an organization
- Provides Project Planning
- May coordinate the systems installation with the Client’s organization
- Assists with Requirements Management
Requirements:
- 10 + years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree desired but not required
- Strong business analysis skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to adjust well in constantly changing environments
- Stay calm and composed under stress
- Effective at building strong business relationships across teams to ensure a positive customer experience and quality of software projects into Production
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and proven ability to effectively work directly with customers, the executive leadership team, and technical staff
- Effective liaison between business and technical teams
- Strong facilitation skills to effectively lead discussions across multiple groups
- Strong ability to guide development team activities from requirements to implementation in all aspects of a software development lifecycle with little supervision
- Perform analysis to support the development and validation of requirements
- Able to effectively translate business requirements/needs into detailed software requirements and support tasks utilizing Agile methodologies and setup of work management tools (like VersionOne)
- Able to communicate technical information to others, expressing facts or ideas clearly, orally or in writing, when answering questions, giving directions, and providing information, individually or in groups
- Microsoft Office with strong skills in PowerPoint, Project, and Excel
- Working knowledge of Change Management and Configuration Management (ServiceNow, etc.)
- VersionOne tool to setup and track projects utilizing Agile methodologies
- Ability to assist with the development of simple to complex project plans utilizing Agile methodologies
- Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
- Knowledge/experience with SDLC practices
- Technical writing
- IT documentation
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
- This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years