Senior Functional Analyst - II - South Carolina Staffing : Job Details

Syms Strategic Group (SSG) is seeking a talented Senior Functional Analyst - II. This is a full-time remote position within the Veterans Affairs department. Military veterans are highly encouraged to apply! Essential duties and responsibilities include:

• Leading the capture of business requirements for software development teams
• Collaborating with business users, Information Technology (IT), and leadership to elaborate and document requirements in an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool
• Managing requirements in an ALM tool
• Performing Agile requirement management activities for a product team
• Analyzing user needs to determine functional, cross-functional, and technical requirements
• Conducting user interviews, leading and facilitating sessions, and developing business process models and formal specifications
• Working with customers, team members, stakeholder users, and other contractors to gather and document business, functional, technical, and non-technical requirements
• Performing elaboration of user stories and decomposition of stories into backlog items and determining acceptance criteria
• Using an ALM tool (JIRA) for Requirements Management, Testing, and Defect Management to create and manage requirements, epics, sub-epics, and user stories
• Performing the collection, tracking, and monitoring of system and business requirements
• Validating requirements and integration
• Conducting backlog refinement sessions
• Coordinating with Systems Engineers to assess impact on technical solutions
• Managing and coordinating requirements for various projects
• Writing and delivering project documents to the client
• Identifying and managing risks and issues impacting the progress and outcome of the project
• Developing and maintaining the scheduled project/product backlogs
• Owning and managing requirements change control
• Developing Change Requests per established policies and procedures
• Facilitating accurate configuration management for project-related artifacts
• Identifying, documenting, verifying, and tracking traceability amongst requirements, test cases, and potential risks and impediment
• Collecting, analyzing, managing, and reporting key Program and Product Team execution status and metrics across all aspects of the Agile product development lifecycle using SAFe
• Performing analysis to identify required tasks and their interrelationships to establish well-documented stories
• Becoming a product functional Subject Matter Expert (SME)
• Leading and mentoring junior analysts in accordance with strategy and direction established by the Team Lead
• Establishing strong relationships with product and business owners
• Supporting development team as needed to help everyone understand the requirements' details
• Following Agile methodology (Scrum) and delivering requirements/specifications for Sprint teams
• Removing impediments from team members to achieve successful completion of Sprints
• Providing clear qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders
• Supporting change control processes established to monitor and control project scope

Required Skills and Experience:

• Strong background in software development and Agile/Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodologies
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics to the customer, management, and non-technical audiences
• Excellent attention to detail, customer service skills, and problem-solving abilities
• Past experience conducting independent research to support the resolution of complex questions
• Advanced experience with Microsoft (MS) Office, including Excel
• Excellent analytical skills, including integrating information from several sources
• Expertise with JIRA tools
• Experience in large, Agile software development or data integration projects

Professional Certifications:

• None required

Years of Professional Experience:

• 10 years of professional (an additional 10 years of experience may be substituted for education)

Desired experience:

• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Working knowledge of VA's Veterans Independence Program (VIP)
• VA SQA Testing experience
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
• Experience working for a Federal Health Agency (VA, DHA, HHS, etc.)
• Healthcare billing and claims processing application knowledge
• Formal Education:
• Master's degree in Engineering or a related scientific or technical discipline

Citizenship Requirement:

• U.S. Citizenship required for this specific opportunity

Security Clearance Requirements:

• Must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI)

Critical Notes:

• SSG will not make assumptions regarding your qualifications. Your answers to the mandatory screening questions must be supported by the information on your resume. Applications with inconsistencies will not be considered.
• Recruiters or Third parties will not be considered.
• This is a 100% U.S. based remote position. However, candidates from CA, CO, NJ, IL, OH, WA, OR or NY will not be considered. U.S Citizenship is required for this specific opportunity. Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and be able to obtain a government-granted security clearance. Individuals may also be subject to a background investigation including, but not limited to criminal history, employment and education verification, drug testing, and creditworthiness.
• Syms Strategic Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or genetic information.