Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Business Analyst
Herndon VA
 
Position Overview
Navitas Business Consulting is seeking a Business Analyst to support a Flagship contract. This role would require the ability to master our development process, culture, and code base, then improve it. This role would be a hybrid role in our Herndon VA Offices.

Responsibilities: 
Owns, manages, develops, and prioritizes product backlog of user stories. Clearly communicates the requirements to the team and works with individual team members as needed to explain requirements.
Helps stakeholders envision how their processes will change with the implementation of the solution.
Establishes user story acceptance criteria and accepts user stories into the baseline. Helps to define sprint goals for their project, and acts as the proxy product owner to accept sprint delivered development.
Assists development teams in researching, troubleshooting, and diagnosing issues, documenting solutions, and managing bug fix release cycles.
Able to interact with technical staff and work collaboratively to define technical solutions to solve business needs.
Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously with strong time management skills.
Facilitate client-facing meetings to understand requirements and help prioritize organizational strategies and plans.
Coordinate and lead project team meetings with technical staff and other key stakeholders.
Assist the team lead in preparing project status reports and presentations by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information.

Qualifications: 
Bachelor's Degree with experience in a related Information Technology field
Experience in gathering requirements
Experience writing user stories, including acceptance criteria
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
Able to take initiative, manage own workload, and assume responsibility for tasks
Able to multi-task, handle multiple projects, and meet internal and client deadlines
Experience with Agile methods and tools
Prefer experience in agile development roles including Scrum Master or Product Owner,

Knowledge of challenges and opportunities faced by DevSecOps agile teams.

Previous experience working with Government clients is highly desirable
Strong prioritization skills and ability to gather information quickly to re-prioritize in a dynamic environment
Strong analytical skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs to be a successful advocate for the customer
Excellent interpersonal skills, relationship-building skills, coordination, and people skills to promote the improvement of relationships between team members and the overall organization
Strong business writing skills
 
Preferred Skills
Familiarity with Federal Government clients
Expert in Agile Methodology
Business process engineering experience.
Organized, controlled, engaged, polished 
Effective meeting management
Ability to be decisive
Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit
 
 
Navitas Business Consulting Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
 
 
 

 

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