Business Analyst

M9 Solutions is seeking aBusiness Analyst to workhybrid remote/on-site on a government contract for a client located inWashington, DC. An active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Support the project and leadership by identifying, eliciting, and decomposing requirements.
• Facilitate team and customer ceremonies and foster effective communication, both verbally and through written artifacts and documentation.
• Continuously evolve Agile and DevSecOps environment, to proactively adapt and contribute to the organization's maturation process.
• Deepen and broaden the team's impact through the delivery of innovative, desirable, and mission critical software products.
• Analyze and understand business needs and translate into the artifacts and product backlog items.
• Perform analysis of alternatives and assess courses of action by a variety of factors to include value, cost, feasibility, and risk.
• Perform estimation and complexity assessments of customer IT requests.
• Create and manage conceptual delivery schedules and product roadmaps.
• Generate and manage artifacts and knowledge bases.
• Generate and manage the body of evidence generation and submission.
• Assist in test planning and management.
• Facilitate and refine team level ceremonies.
• Identify, map, and track dependencies internal and external to the team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure efficient product development and delivery.
• Utilize product management tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft 365 (M365) to accomplish daily duties.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Work Authorization: US Citizenship is required.
• An active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience in lieu of degree.
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and of popular backend and frontend technologies.
• 2 years of experience working on, or in direct support of a software development team or in an enterprise architecture organization.
• Experience working in Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Familiarity with Cloud environments, particularly AWS.
• Experience with Confluence and Jira.
• Experience with the M365 suite.
• Experience in backlog management, including Epic, Feature, User Story development, and refinement
• Experience with project cost estimations, project planning, solutions focused, presentations, reporting, project management, technical documentation, JIRA, cross-functional teamwork, enterprise architecture, business enterprise architecture, product backlog management, Agile Scrum, dependency management, change and risk management, AWS, SDLC, alternatives of analysis, requirements elicitation, and user research.
• Strong verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment and build strong relationships with team members.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• Familiarity and experience performing analysis of alternatives.
• Familiarity and experience with the Intelligence Community and the intel cycle.
• Familiarity and experience with risk management frameworks and cyber security authorization processes.
• Familiarity and experience operating within the full software development lifecycle.
• Strong track record of successfully supporting the delivery valuable software products.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment.
• Knowledge of user research methodologies and the ability to derive actionable insights.
• Proficiency in additional project management and collaboration tools.
• A passion for staying up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and experience.
• Cloud budgeting and forecasting experience.