Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst
 

Overview:

Akumen, Inc. seeks a dynamic, self-motivated Sr. Business Analyst to join our team in supporting a highly visible Federal customer. You will perform detailed requirements analysis, document processes, and perform some user acceptance testing. To succeed in this role you should have a natural analytical way of thinking and be able to explain difficult concepts to non-technical users.

Responsibilities: 

Do you thrive being the team expert that connects all the dots through collaboration and communication? Do you enjoy working in the space where technology and business intersect? If you said yes to both, Akumen could provide the opportunity to work with an agile time while advancing the bureau’s mission within the Department of State.

As a Sr. Business Analyst, you will serve as a dedicated team member who has the primary responsibility to support their self-organizing, self-managing team in successfully achieving their daily iteration and release goals and delivery objectives. You will do so by effectively applying, implementing, and enforcing Scrum principles and practices. This role assists in protecting the team from outside influences, which could otherwise interfere with the team's ability to deliver value in a short time box (iteration). You will help mentor and support the team in its transition to the new method, continuously facilitate a team dynamic intended to maximize the team, and continually improve agile practices.

Other responsibilities to include but not be limited to:

• Formation and definition of project scope and objectives based on both user needs and a good understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements. 
• Develop understanding of the business needs of multiple stakeholders or product owners through various elicitation techniques. 
• Facilitate the negotiation of requirements amongst stakeholders or product owner. 
• Help business stakeholders envision how their processes will change with implementation of solution. 
• Build requirements to accurately and thoroughly capture business needs or ensures user stories are concise and complete. 
• Build and update system requirements specification documents or other requirements related artifacts.  
• Guide and advise less-experienced Business Systems Analysts.  
• Able to interact with technical staff and work collaboratively to define technical solutions to solve business needs. 
• Able to perform responsibilities utilizing agile or waterfall software development methodologies.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree with experience in a related Information Technology field
• Five(5) to ten(10) years of experience in developing requirements and writing technical documents 
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Familiarity with ServiceNow and/or Azure platforms
• Able to take the initiative, manage own workload, and assume responsibility for tasks
• Abl  to multi-task, handle multiple projects, and meet internal and client deadlines    
• Proactively seeks opportunities to implement improvements to internal team processes
• Contributes to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork within the organization Agile process life cycle
• Strong written and communication skills required
• Must have Agile experience; methodologies and tools
• Experience with User Interface designs and mockups
• Previous experience working with Government clients is highly desirable
• Must have experience in conducting daily stand-up meetings, planning and review sessions, prioritizing tasks and mitigating roadblocks

Clearance Requirement:

• MUST HAVE ACTIVE DOD SECRET CLEARANCE

Akumen is a leading management and technology consulting firm that specializes in serving the federal government. We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.