Description
Leidos is seeking an Business Analyst to support large-scale migration and operations on a large, high-profile DOD contract. The I3TS program provides enterprise-wide IT support to enable DTRA’s Information Management & Technology Directorate (ITD) to consolidate, modernize, and continuously innovate the delivery of IT services and mission capabilities to DTRA’s internal and external mission partners operating in CONUS and OCONUS locations.
The will analyze current and technical processes to formulate and develop new and modified business information processing systems. Duties will include coordinating with business and technology teams to ascertain system requirements, such as program functions, output requirements, input data acquisition, execution of user acceptance, and coordinate testing and system controls. The Business Analyst will work with Product Owners to design a modern end user experience, document requirements and mock-up dashboard and user experience workflows. They will work with Scrum masters to plan user acceptance testing and document test cases and acceptance criteria.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• BS and 4 – 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2 – 6 years of prior relevant experience.
• Thorough understanding of user interface design, information architecture, and human factors.
• Understanding of graphic designing and UI designing concepts.
• Exceptional communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to handle and coordinate multiple projects at once.
• Documentation and articulation skills.
• Innovative and creative outlook.
• Good command over spoken and written communication
• Possess a current Secret clearance.
• Knowledge of human/user-centered design frameworks and processes
• Ability to identify and present actionable research insights to business stakeholders
• Requirements Elicitation, the ability to work with Subject Matter Experts to capture business requirements alongside an Agile system development project
• Business process modelling (with ability to use a conventional modelling notation, e.g. UML)
• The ability to work collaboratively with internal teams to shape user stories and acceptance criteria
• The ability to facilitate effective process design workshops to define detailed, complete and agreed processes
• The ability to identify significant gaps between as is and to be processes and business architectures and understand the steps required to move to the target state
• Experience of producing personas, journey maps, user stories and pain point analysis
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• High standards of communication (written and verbal)
• Proficiency in MS Visio and strong skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Self-starting, enthusiastic, keenness to learn, develop and contribute to the success of the program.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• ITIL 4 Foundation training
• Experience Mocking up and developing dashboard in Power BI
• Experience with Adobe Suite of Tools such as Adobe XD.
• Experience diagramming with Microsoft Visio
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other UI development tools.
• Experience of running requirement elicitation workshops and generating user story documentation
• Lean Six Sigma Yellow or Green belt
• Agile Scrum Master
• Data and Analytics knowledge would be advantageous
• Reporting and Dashboarding knowledge would be advantageous
• Experience of ITIL/Service Management methodologies
• Experience of working with partner organization and 3rd party suppliers

• Analyze existing systems and workflows to understand the needs of the end user. Document requirements as user stories.
• Conduct research on usability and customer experience.
• Clarify requirements and segregate them into functional and non-functional categories.
• Present solutions, ideas, and recommendations that serve the requirements.
• Requirements and scope documentation
• Create designs that align with the user needs.
• Prepare mockups, prototypes, wireframes, and interaction diagrams.
• Create test cases and plans to validate that the developed functionality is in accordance with the scope.
• Work with the customer and end users to understand end user needs and develop plans to improve the systems
• Establish an understanding of key business processes, their architectural components and associated operating procedures
• Define target business/operating models and their components
• Identify stakeholders and analyze their perspectives and needs
• Elicit, analyze, define and document business requirements
• Evaluate, analyze and support business change impacts
• Undertake data analytical activity as well as help to form data management strategies
• Work closely with Product Owners to understand the business drivers and desired outcomes, and ensure proposed solutions and prototypes are produced in line with these
• Help to translate the designs into stories for the developers
• Support User Acceptance Testing activities, by helping to define test scenarios and assisting management of testing and training
• Help recommend and design modelling and testing approaches / methodologies