Business Analyst

Responsibilities

The Business Analyst serves as a bridge between government customers and the software development team to translate mission needs into actionable requirements. Additionally, the role performs Scrum Master duties to facilitate Agile ceremonies and ensure the team remains aligned with sprint goals.

Requirements

Candidates must possess an active Secret clearance and at least five years of experience in business analysis or software delivery. Proficiency in Agile methodologies, requirements documentation, and experience with tools like Jira and Confluence are required.

Skills

• Business Analysis
• Scrum Master
• Agile
• Requirements Gathering
• User Stories
• Stakeholder Management
• Jira
• Confluence
• Software Development Lifecycle
• Process Mapping
• Acceptance Criteria
• Technical Documentation
• User Acceptance Testing
• Backlog Management
• Communication
• Analytical Skills

About this role

Overview
DecisionPoint is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support an assigned software application within the MODES III environment. This individual will serve as the primary bridge between the government customer and the software development team, translating mission and business needs into clear, actionable requirements and helping drive those requirements through development, testing, release, and adoption.
The Business Analyst will also perform Scrum Master responsibilities for the assigned application team. The role facilitates Agile ceremonies, maintains delivery visibility, helps remove impediments, and keeps the development team aligned with sprint goals and customer priorities.
This is a hands-on, customer-facing role. The successful candidate must be comfortable leading requirements discussions, working directly with government stakeholders, collaborating daily with developers and testers, and taking ownership of work from initial discovery through successful delivery.
This position is fully remote.
Duties & Responsibilities
Business Analysis and Requirements
Work directly with government customers, Product Owners, subject-matter experts, and users to understand mission needs, business processes, pain points, and desired capabilities.
Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, requirements workshops, and requirements reviews.
Translate business needs into clear user stories, functional requirements, acceptance criteria, workflows, process maps, and supporting documentation.
Understand and document the business problem behind a request rather than simply recording the requested solution.
Identify requirement gaps, dependencies, risks, assumptions, and conflicting stakeholder needs early in the development lifecycle.
Maintain requirements traceability from business need through development, testing, user acceptance, release, and implementation.
Partner with developers, UX/UI designers, QA, cybersecurity, cloud, and other technical teams to confirm that requirements are complete, testable, and technically feasible.
Support user acceptance testing, release readiness, release notes, user guidance, demonstrations, and implementation activities.
Scrum Master and Agile Delivery
Perform Scrum Master responsibilities for the assigned software application and development team.
Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews or demonstrations, and retrospectives.
Partner with the Product Owner and government customer to maintain a healthy, prioritized, and delivery-ready product backlog.
Ensure user stories have sufficient context, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and supporting information before entering development.
Track sprint commitments, impediments, dependencies, risks, carryover, and follow-up actions.
Help remove obstacles affecting the team’s ability to deliver while escalating issues that require program or government action.
Protect the development team from unclear requirements and uncontrolled scope changes during an active sprint.
Promote continuous improvement, team accountability, transparency, and practical Agile practices.
Use Jira and Confluence, or approved equivalent tools, to manage the backlog, requirements, decisions, Agile artifacts, and team documentation.
Government Customer and Development Team Partnership
Serve as a trusted day-to-day partner to the government customer for the assigned application.
Develop a strong understanding of the application’s mission, users, business processes, priorities, and technical environment.
Translate between business and technical language so the government customer and development team share a clear understanding of what is being built and why.
Lead conversations when requirements are incomplete, ambiguous, conflicting, or technically challenging.
Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, and delivery concerns clearly and professionally.
Coordinate continuously with developers and testers rather than treating requirements as a one-time handoff.
Lead or support customer demonstrations, sprint reviews, requirements reviews, and release discussions.
Team Contribution and Mentoring
Share business analysis and Agile best practices with other Business Analysts.
Mentor less-experienced Business Analysts when opportunities arise.
Peer review user stories, requirements, acceptance criteria, workflows, and other BA deliverables.
Contribute reusable templates, standards, and lessons learned that improve consistency across application teams.
Participate in BA knowledge-sharing sessions and cross-team collaboration.
Qualifications
Active Secret clearance required.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field. Relevant additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree when permitted by the contract.
Five (5) or more years of experience in Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, Product Management, or a related software-delivery role.
Demonstrated experience gathering and documenting requirements for software applications.
Experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria, functional requirements, workflows, and process documentation.
Experience facilitating customer requirements sessions and technical discussions.
Experience working directly with software developers, QA professionals, Product Owners, and government or enterprise stakeholders.
Hands-on experience in an Agile or Scrum software-development environment.
Experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies or performing Scrum Master responsibilities.
Experience with Jira and Confluence, Azure DevOps, or comparable lifecycle-management tools.
Strong written, verbal, facilitation, presentation, analytical, and organizational skills.
Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and drive ambiguous requirements toward resolution.
Active Secret clearance supported by the required background investigation, when required by the position.
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