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About the Role
Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a talented Senior Functional Analyst to support the Veterans Affairs department. This is a full-time, remote position requiring a Public Trust (MBI) security clearance.
Responsibilities
- Lead the capture of business requirements for software development teams.
- Collaborate with business users, IT, and leadership to elaborate and document requirements in an ALM tool.
- Manage requirements in an ALM tool.
- Perform Agile requirement management activities for a product team.
- Analyze user needs to determine functional, cross-functional, and technical requirements.
- Conduct user interviews, lead and facilitate sessions, and develop business process models and formal specifications.
- Gather and document business, functional, technical, and non-technical requirements with customers, team members, stakeholders, and other contractors.
- Elaborate user stories and decompose stories into backlog items, determining acceptance criteria.
- Use JIRA for Requirements Management, Testing, and Defect Management to create and manage requirements, epics, sub-epics, and user stories.
- Collect, track, and monitor system and business requirements.
- Validate requirements and integration.
- Conduct backlog refinement sessions.
- Coordinate with Systems Engineers to assess impact on technical solutions.
- Manage and coordinate requirements for various projects.
- Write and deliver project documents to the client.
- Identify and manage risks and issues impacting project progress and outcome.
- Develop and maintain scheduled project/product backlog(s).
- Own and manage requirements change control.
- Develop Change Requests per established policies and procedures.
- Facilitate accurate configuration management for project-related artifacts.
- Identify, document, verify, and track traceability amongst requirements, test cases, and potential risks and impediments.
- Collect, analyze, manage, and report key Program and Product Team execution status and metrics across all aspects of the Agile product development lifecycle using SAFe.
- Perform analysis to identify required tasks and their interrelationships to establish well-documented stories.
- Become a product functional Subject Matter Expert (SME).
- Lead and mentor junior analysts in accordance with strategy and direction established by the Team Lead.
- Establish strong relationships with product and business owners.
- Support the development team as needed to help everyone understand requirements' details.
- Follow Agile methodology (Scrum) and deliver requirements/specifications for Sprint teams.
- Remove impediments from team members to achieve successful completion of Sprints.
- Provide clear qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders.
- Support change control processes established to monitor and control project scope.
Requirements
- Must possess a strong background in software development and Agile/Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodologies.
- Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics to the customer, management, and non-technical audiences.
- Must possess excellent attention to detail, customer service skills, and problem-solving abilities.
- Past experience conducting independent research to support the resolution of complex questions.
- Must possess advanced experience with Microsoft (MS) Office, including Excel.
- Must possess excellent analytical skills, including integrating information from several sources.
- Expertise with JIRA tools.
- Experience in large, Agile software development or data integration projects.
- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- Must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI) security clearance.
- Individuals may be subject to a background investigation including criminal history, employment and education verification, drug testing, and creditworthiness.
Skills
- Software development
- Agile methodologies
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Microsoft Office (Excel)
- JIRA tools
- Requirements Management
- Testing
- Defect Management
- Agile requirement management
- User story elaboration
- Backlog management
- Configuration management
- Risk and issue management
- Agile product development lifecycle
- SAFe
- Scrum
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Customer service skills
- Problem-solving abilities
- Analytical skills
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full Time
- Remote
Experience Level
- Experienced
- 10 years of professional experience
Education Level
- Master’s degree in Engineering or a related scientific or technical discipline
Salary/Compensations
- $78,167 - $103,855
About the Company
- Syms Strategic Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Equal Opportunity
- Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or genetic information.