Business Analyst - ArchivesSpace

at  Aretum

Aretum is seeking a qualified and motivated Business Analyst to join our team and work on the ArchivesSpace project. As a Business Analyst at Aretum, you will be responsible for gathering and analyzing business requirements, facilitating communication between stakeholders, and ensuring the successful implementation of the ArchivesSpace system.
Aretum is a leading government contracting company, specializing in providing innovative technology solutions to Federal clients. We are committed to delivering high-quality products and services that meet the unique needs of our clients and contribute to their success.

REQUIREMENTS

• 4+ years of experience in documenting business and functional requirements
• 2+ years working in an Agile environment, with demonstrated ability to clearly articulate User Stories and Conditions of Satisfaction to development teams
• Experience with ArchivesSpace, or other open-source content and meta-data management system
• Experience with FOLIO, or other integrated library platform
• Experience defining requirements for data import, export and ETL processes
• Web-based software development experience involving complex workflows
• Demonstrated ability to elicit, create, and analyze functional and non-functional requirements
• Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs
• Experience presenting detailed summaries of progress and updates
• Ability to facilitate and drive group discussions to build a shared understanding of software requirements
• Ability to foster solid working relationships with senior-level management and subject matter experts within the team and client organization
• Experience working within teams that include remote team members
• Propensity to mentor staff on functional expertise and provide peer reviews of deliverables for other product lines
• Confident in requirement knowledge to help lead change and implement new strategies company-wide
• Ability to work independently and in an awesome team setting
• Experience with Jira and Confluence tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to pass a basic government background check (Public Trust)

• Capture detailed business requirements, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria in JIRA
• Work with Product Owner/System Owner, Development, UX/UI, QA team, and Subject Matter Experts to ensure alignment and proper interpretation of complex functional requirements.
• Ensure end-to-end requirements traceability, mapping user stories to software test cases, applicable business processes, wireframes, and UX comps.
• Leverage strong written and verbal communication skills to drive requirements sessions in a large setting including Product Owners, Subject Matter Experts, Project Manager, Team Leads, and client personnel.
• Collaborate with team members, share knowledge, and continuously improve business analysis efforts, identify and close gaps.
• Document functional specifications, traceability matrices, process flow diagrams, wireframes, meeting agenda, meeting minutes, and other supporting artifacts.
• Conduct User Research sessions to gather requirements.
• Monitor sprint progress, facilitate discussions, decision-making processes, and conflict resolution. Communicate progress and team dynamics to stakeholders and higher management.
• Assist the Product Owner in managing the product backlog, ensuring it is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the team will work on next.