Job Description
WANTED: An experienced Business Analyst to support the development of the Spectacle Request Transmission System (SRTS) web-based application for our Defense Health Agency customer. This role involves gathering and managing Agile requirements and ensuring solutions satisfy stakeholder needs.
As a Business Analyst, You Will
- Join a dedicated team that is focused on identifying, designing, developing, and deploying features and functionality needed for the SRTS application.
- Receive a robust benefits package that includes Employee Stock Ownership Plan!
- Enjoy flexibility managing your work hours and personal needs with a single accrual leave plan.
- Be a part of an empowered accountability culture where each employee-owner has a meaningful stake in the future success and growth of the company.
A Week In The Life Of a Business Analyst
- Work with customers and external stakeholders to elicit business requirements and document business cases, features, and workflows.
- Collect, capture, and manage user needs from prioritization through concept development.
- Write user stories to support development and deployment.
- Facilitate the gathering of business-focused requirements to support a product team and product owner in defining the backlog and ensuring the users' perspectives are considered.
- Define and document functional requirements, ensuring business objectives are understood and verify that requirements are fulfilled in software solutions.
- Focus requirements gathering on improved usability, user experience, and driving user adoption and engagement.
- Identify core business needs and decompose and document them in concepts of operation, story maps, briefings, and user stories with thorough acceptance criteria.
- Document business rules and construct workflow diagrams as needed.
- Create and present briefings to team members, clients, and product owners to support recommendations.
- Actively participate in agile ceremonies (scrums, sprint planning, program increment planning, demos, retrospectives) as part of an agile team.
- Support limited testing against developed user stories and perform regression testing required for software upgrades.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Science, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related analytical, scientific, or technical discipline.
- 5-7 years of relevant work experience in information technology, successfully demonstrating delivery of complex systems or products.
- Must be a U.S. citizen and undergo a background check for Public Trust.
- Experience gathering, decomposing, and documenting technical requirements and writing user stories.
- Familiarity with Agile development methodology and experiences such as Scrum, with an Agile certification (Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Product Owner, etc.) being a plus.
- Proficiency with Azure DevOps or like management tools, such as Jira or Serena Business Manager.
- Knowledge of the Agile Software Development Lifecycle.
- Experience in SAP BusinessObjects/Oracle DB implementation and use is desirable.
- Understanding business analysis, requirements management techniques, and best practices in an Agile environment.
- Knowledge of 508 Compliance and familiarity with Federal cybersecurity compliance work, STIGs, Risk Assessment, and Authority to Operate.
- Strong self-organization and self-management skills with emphasis on self-initiation, teamwork, and follow-through.
- Demonstrated organizational skills and ability to handle complex projects considerately and incisively.
- Strong professional and interpersonal skills, with excellent written and oral communication abilities.
- Continuous improvement mindset.
Founded in 1975, AMERICAN SYSTEMS is one of the largest employee-owned companies in the United States. We are a government services contractor focused on delivering Strategic Solutions to complex national priority programs with 100+ locations worldwide. Through our focus on quality, strong cultural beliefs, and innovation we deliver excellence every day.
Company Awards
- Forbes National Best Midsize Companies
- Energage National Best Workplaces, National
- Washington Post Best Workplaces
Veteran Hiring Awards
- GOLD AWARD by U.S. Department of Labor Hire Vets Medallion
- BEST FOR VETS EMPLOYER by Military Times
- TOP 10 MILITARY FRIENDLY EMPLOYER by MilitaryFriendly.com
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is committed to pay transparency for our applicants and employee-owners. The salary range for this position is $70,000-$90,000. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors permitted by law. AMERICAN SYSTEMS provides for the welfare of its employees and their dependents through a comprehensive benefits program by offering healthcare benefits, paid leave, retirement plans (including ESOP and 401k), insurance programs, and education and training assistance.