Own, manage, develop, and prioritize product backlog of user stories. Clearly communicate the requirements to the team and work with individual team members as needed to explain requirements. Helps stakeholders envision how their processes will change with the implementation of the solution. Establish user story acceptance criteria and accept user stories into the baseline. Helps to define sprint goals for their project. Act as the proxy product owner to accept sprint-delivered development. Assi... more details
Business Analyst
Job LocationsUS-VA-Herndon
Job ID
2024-3763
# of Openings
1
Category
*Technical Consulting
Overview
Acuity, Inc. has an opening for a Business Analyst to support a visible government client. Are you a dynamic and creative individual who enjoys working in a collaborative environment to develop sophisticated applications? Come check out Acuity!
In this role, you will serve as the Business Analyst for the customer. The Business Analyst has deep customer knowledge and an excellent ability to transform strategic intent into fully elaborated requirements in user stories, feature specifications and acceptance criteria. You will be helping to define the requirements critical to supporting the client's application modernization efforts and be part of an agile custom software development team.
Candidates MUST be available to work onsite in Herndon, VA 3-5 days a week.
Responsibilities
Own, manage, develop, and prioritize product backlog of user stories. Clearly communicate the requirements to the team and work with individual team members as needed to explain requirements.
Helps stakeholders envision how their processes will change with the implementation of the solution.
Establish user story acceptance criteria and accept user stories into the baseline. Helps to define sprint goals for their project. Act as the proxy product owner to accept sprint-delivered development.
Assist development teams in researching, troubleshooting, and diagnosing issues, documenting solutions, and managing bug-fix release cycles.
Interact with technical staff and work collaboratively to define technical solutions to solve business needs.
Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously with strong time management skills.
Facilitate client-facing meetings to understand requirements and help prioritize organizational strategies and plans.
Coordinate and lead project team meetings with technical staff and other key stakeholders.
Assist the team lead in preparing project status reports and presentations by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information.
Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree with experience in a related Information Technology field.
Certified Scrum Master strongly desired.
Experience in gathering requirements.
Experience writing user stories, including acceptance criteria.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
Able to take initiative, manage own workload, and assume responsibility for tasks.
Able to multi-task, handle multiple projects, and meet internal and client deadlines.
Experience with Agile methods and tools.
Knowledge of challenges and opportunities faced by DevSecOps agile teams.
Strong prioritization skills and ability to gather information quickly to re-prioritize in a dynamic environment.
Strong analytical skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs to be a successful advocate for the customer.
Excellent interpersonal skills, relationship-building skills, coordination, and people skills to promote the improvement of relationships between team members and the overall organization.
Strong business writing skills.
Preferred Skills
Previous experience supporting application modernization projects with custom code development (e.g. Java, React, etc.).
Previous experience working with Government clients.
Experience in agile development roles including Scrum Master or Product Owner.
Business process engineering experience.
Organized, controlled, engaged, polished.
Effective meeting management.
Ability to be decisive.
Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit.
Clearance Requirement:
Must have Active Secret or above security clearance.
Acuity is a leading management and technology consulting firm that specializes in serving the federal government. Our innovative, collaborative and rewarding work environment has earned repeat honors from the Washington Business Journal’s Best Places to Work and SmartCEO Corporate Culture awards.
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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