Location: Washington, DC Metro area (Remote Flexibility)
Description:
Metric5 is looking for a motivated Senior Technical Business Analyst with strong Project Management skills to join an agile program supporting our US Treasury client.
As a Senior Technical Business Analyst, you will be responsible for collaborating with the product owner, SMEs, and stakeholders to analyze tasks and requests to create user stories with acceptance criteria. You will also manage the sprint backlog, lead sprint demos, and participate in all major program ceremonies. You are comfortable working in a customer-facing role in an agile environment, and you are proactive in identifying risks, and developing solutions.
The successful candidate will work directly with customers, developers, and other team members throughout all stages of the development lifecycle to implement application enhancements.
Responsibilities:
Manage the product backlog and design artifacts in JIRA and Confluence
Lead requirements elicitation and refinement sessions to uncover business, functional, and technical needs
Facilitate collection of user feedback and metrics tracking
Translate customer needs and requirement into epics, features, and user stories
Maintain requirements traceability and ensure development aligns with business objectives
Perform gap analysis
Support business process modeling and human centered design activities
Work directly with the development teams to clarify requirements
Translate user stories into test cases and support QA/testing activities
Support organizational change strategy and artifacts to support a smooth system roll-out
Develop executive briefing artifacts and info-graphics/diagrams
Develop and deliver training material such as user guides, quick reference guides, learning videos, and instructor-led training
Support daily/weekly/quarterly Agile ceremonies
Product Architecture and Design Best Practices
Research and analyze new technologies and recommend appropriate solutions
Analyze and identify areas of risk and develop plans to minimize
Monitor product licenses and ensure compliance with IT industry regulations
Required Skills:
7 or more years of experience in the IT field focused on eliciting requirements and user story writing
Must have excellent communication skills
Experience writing acceptance criteria in Gherkin
Experience in Agile business analysis, product ownership or management
Knowledge and experience in several agile frameworks (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, XP, Lean, DevOps)
Strong writing skills
Working knowledge and documented experience using requirements management tools such as JIRA and Confluence
Experience with functional and end-to-end testing, such as conducting manual test cases and writing BDD test scripts
Strong data gathering and analysis skills
Experience providing end user training
Advanced knowledge of programming languages like SQL and system integration solutions
Desired Skills and Certifications:
Experience working in a SAFe Agile environment
PMP Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Technical understanding to connect technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Innovative thinking and the ability to learn new tools and techniques and apply them to the program
Education: Bachelors degree
Years of Experience: 7+ years of relevant experience
Clearance: Must be a United States Citizen and able to obtain a security clearance for this
government position. Public Trust clearance preferred
Metric5 is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age, or genetic information. Metric5's commitment to diversity and inclusive selection practices includes ensuring qualified long-term unemployed job seekers receive equal consideration for employment.
