Senior Business Analyst
TISTA Science & Technology Corporation
- Lanham, MD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work as part of cross-functional Agile and SDLC project teams
- 5+ years’ experience as a business analyst supporting Agile teams
- Participate in the planning and prioritization of product, release, and sprint backlogs
- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
- Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
- Coordinate with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their problems and need
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with internal colleagues and customers to analyze platform needs and clarify, refine and document requirements
- Strong analytical skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to translate requirements into application deliverables
- Collaborate with engineers and subject matter experts to document and communicate the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
- Manage client relations to ensure that expectations are managed and fulfilled and high quality analysis is delivered on or before time
- Develop recommendations and methodologies to help Business capture the most critical, actionable data to achieve their objectives
- Develop use cases to assure the quality of the Technology product built to meet requirements of the business workflows
- Facilitate/lead in meetings at the business, operational and project levels
- 5+ years work as a Business Analyst or Product Owner in an Agile environment
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools with particular skill with Excel, PowerPoint and VISIO
- Must be a team player with strong attention to detail and able to work independently
- In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written, oral and interpersonal skills
- Strong communication and collaborative skills with other team members and customers
- Experience working with Rational CLM is a strong plus
- Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related scientific /technical discipline and 5+ years’ experience
- Must be US Citizen or US Lawful Permanent Resident
- Must be Federal Tax Compliant
- The ability to pass a Tier 2/Modest Background Investigation
- Active IRS MBI clearance a plus