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Introduction
As a Lead Business Analyst, you will translate conversations, presentations, materials and requirements into agile backlog features and user stories.
This is a proposal-based position; employment is contingent upon contract award and funding availability.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Facilitate all scrum ceremonies, including daily team stand ups and backlog grooming with the government product owner
• Elicit, identify, and capture functional and non-functional requirements through systems and use case analysis
• Capture and transform stakeholder needs, expectations, constraints, and interfaces into customer features and requirements
• Develop system context models, use case models, user interface storyboards, business process flow models, and domain models
• Write use case specifications
• Identify and specify business rules and map rules to use cases
• Define an appropriate set of requirements definition and management tasks and estimate the work for their tasks and backlog items
• Provide support for review of requirements compliance and requirements management best practices and artifacts

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent industry work experience)
• 12+ years of BA and/or Scrum experience
• Scrum Master certification required
• Must understand agile scrum ceremonies and agile methodology as our requirements, development and delivery will be based on a scrum backlog
• Strong facilitation and negotiation skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Product/System requirements elicitation, requirements definition and requirements management experience
• Hands on experience with JIRA or Azure DevOps or similar agile project management/requirements management/product management tools
• Experience working on Agile teams using Scrum/Kanban agile methods

Location:

• This is a remote role with occasional travel to Martinsburg, WV and Washington, D.C.

Citizenship and Clearance Requirements:

• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance with U.S. Citizenship.

Preferred Experience:

• Prior experience working on Cloud application development projects
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for Program Increment (PI) Planning
• Knowledge of Hospitality industry domain strongly preferred
• SAFe PM/PO, and CSM certifications strong preferred
• Experience in custom application development on the AWS, Microsoft technology platform, Microsoft Office, and development tools to create innovative business solutions is strongly preferred

Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs

• Facilitate all scrum ceremonies, including daily team stand ups and backlog grooming with the government product owner
• Elicit, identify, and capture functional and non-functional requirements through systems and use case analysis
• Capture and transform stakeholder needs, expectations, constraints, and interfaces into customer features and requirements
• Develop system context models, use case models, user interface storyboards, business process flow models, and domain models
• Write use case specifications
• Identify and specify business rules and map rules to use cases
• Define an appropriate set of requirements definition and management tasks and estimate the work for their tasks and backlog items
• Provide support for review of requirements compliance and requirements management best practices and artifact