Business Analyst REMOTE - Public Trust!

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.

• 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.