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ECS · 16 hours ago

Business Analyst

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$80K/yr - $90K/yr

5+ years exp

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government, and they are seeking a Business Analyst to support the Department of Veterans Affairs. The role involves serving as a liaison between OIT and business stakeholders, eliciting and analyzing business needs, and ensuring the effective delivery of project requirements.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud InfrastructureComplianceConsultingCyber SecurityInformation TechnologyMachine LearningSecuritySoftware

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of VESEE stakeholders, including customers and/or end users

Collaborates with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision

Clearly identifies project stakeholders and establish customer classes, as well as their characteristics

Conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods

Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics

Works with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements

Researches, reviews, and analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes

Assists in conducting research on products to meet agreed upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts

Participates in the QA of solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized

Perform gap analyses of the differences between current (as-is) and targeted (to-be) states

Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards

Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications

Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team

Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team

Develops and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted

Assists with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options, and communicating these back to the business stakeholders

Manages and tracks the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary

Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood

Qualification

Business requirements analysisSoftware Development Life CycleProject management skillsPMP certificationJiraAnalytical skillsCommunication skillsTeam playerProblem-solving skillsOrganizational skills

Required

Bachelor's Degree Required

5+ years of experience

Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development

Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources

Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Strong communication (verbal and written) and presentation skills, with experience facilitating group discussions

Good team player, able to manage multiple assignments, and adapt to changing client needs

Ability to multi-task with limited supervision in a fast-paced environment

Ability to synthesize and analyze multiple views and data sets

Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills

Strong oral and written communication skills

Strong organization and prioritization skills

Ability to work in a dynamic, collaborative, results-driven environment

Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance

Preferred

Experience working with VA and/or other federal agencies

PMP or Certified Scrum Master certification

Experience with training, change management, and/or process improvement

Experience in Federal healthcare consulting

Experience using Jira for requirements gathering and management

Company

ECS

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ECS is a fast-growing 4,000-person, $1.2B provider of advanced technology solutions for federal civilian, defense, intelligence, and commercial customers.

Founded in 2001

Fairfax, Virginia, USA

1001-5000 employees