ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, and they are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to guide the development of a user-facing, web-based data collection tool and a portfolio of business intelligence products. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, analyzing processes, and ensuring the product team delivers value iteratively using agile practices.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand operational responsibilities and business needs
- Analyze current processes and identify opportunities for improvement
- Develop hypotheses and design experiments to validate proposed solutions
- Recommend tools and technologies aligned with program goals
- Participate in Program Increment Planning and contribute to thematic roadmaps
- Typical projects include development of client-centric business intelligence dashboards and reports
- Ensure the product team delivers value iteratively using agile and SAFe practices
- Duties will also include participating in release and sprint planning, obtaining tech approaches and levels of effort (LOE) for proposed enhancements or new work, presenting LOEs to client and PO to help prioritize releases, liaising between client(s), developer(s), and quality assurance tester(s), to ensure satisfaction and understanding
- Plan stories for releases and sprints; participate in release planning, baselining, and development
- Liaising between client(s), developer(s), and quality assurance tester(s); answering developer questions
- Assist scrum masters and tech leads in eliminating delays and blocks to developers
- Breaking down Epics into functional user stories and ordering them in a way that makes sense to the product team and meets business user needs
- Ensuring user stories include acceptance criteria and labels that reasonably cover all areas necessary for complete testing of the functionality
- Help in leading refinement, and sprint planning meetings to ensure work is matched and complements each developer's strengths and objectives
- Working with tech leads to help identify patterns in defects and work out processes to ensure there are no reopen defects
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree; or equivalent (applicants can substitute one year of related experience for one year of education)
- 5+ years of experience in a Business Analyst role
- Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust
- Candidate must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and all work must be performed in the U.S
- Candidate must have lived in the U.S. for three (3) full years out of the last five (5) years
- U.S. Citizenship or Green Card is highly prioritized due to federal contract requirements
- Scrum or other Agile certification
- Master's degree preferred
- Prior experience in consulting or healthcare is an advantage but not essential