Requirements / Business Analyst

Overview

Requirements / Business Analyst

Hybrid Washington . 3-4 Days a Week Onsite

Active TS / SCI Clearance Required

Summary

Our client is an employee and Service-Disabled, Veteran-owned Small Business focused on providing niche technical services.

They are a team of experienced cybersecurity professionals with a track record of success in the Federal, Commercial, and Academic workspaces.

Additionally, our client designs, builds, operates, and secures scalable cloud and IT infrastructures to meet their customers’ near-term needs and fulfill their long-term requirements.

Responsibilities

Our client is looking for a Requirements / Business Analyst to join their team! The analyst is the person who elicits, analyzes, validates, and manages the requirements throughout the project lifecycle.

• Serve as the key interface between the users and the project manager they gather information, document processes, and confirm the final documents with users
• Elicit the requirements, in the form of user stories, from various sources, such as stakeholders, users, documents, existing systems, or market research.

Eliciting requirements involves asking the right questions, listening actively, observing behaviors, and facilitating workshops or interviews

• Analyze the requirements / user stories and ensure that they are clear, consistent, complete, feasible, and testable. Analyzing requirements involves breaking down complex problems, identifying dependencies and constraints, resolving conflicts, and prioritizing needs
• Validate the requirements / user stories and ensure that they meet the expectations and needs of the stakeholders and users.

Validating requirements involves reviewing, verifying, and validating the requirements with the relevant parties, as well as conducting tests, prototypes, or simulations

Manage the requirements / user stories and ensure that they are aligned with the project scope, objectives, and changes.

Managing requirements involves documenting, tracing, baselining, and controlling the requirements throughout the project lifecycle

Communicate the requirements / user stories and ensure that they are understood and agreed by all the project participants.

Communicating requirements involves creating, presenting, and distributing the requirements artifacts, such as specifications, diagrams, or user stories

• Improve the requirements / user stories and ensure that they are continuously refined and optimized. Improving requirements involves evaluating, measuring, and improving the requirements process, methods, and outcomes
• Ensure user stories have well written descriptions and acceptance criteria and serve as the Liaison between the development team and the stakeholders to ensure the understanding of the requirements / user stories for the application
• Formulates and defines systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and a thorough understanding of business systems and industry requirements
• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions
• Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies
• Facilitate meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings (tech exchanges, status meetings, user sessions,
• Effectively communicate status, next steps, insights, schedules, etc. with cross-functional team members and management
• Assist in project management by developing project plans and managing tasks
• Monitor deliverables and ensure timely completion of projects or tasks
• Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering system or workflow functionality and form of desired results.

Includes analysis of business and user needs, documentation of requirements, and translation into proper system requirements specifications

• Analyze process and re-engineering, with an understanding of technical problems and solutions as they relate to the current and future business environment
• Ensure agreed-upon requirements are reflected as epics and stories in JIRA

Requirements

• Four (4) to (6) years of relevant experience is required
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite
• Experience with Atlassian tool suite (JIRA, Confluence in particular)
• Experience with Agile development practices
• Experience developing user requirements for agile development (Epics, User Stories,
• Good Communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills
• Problem-solving, critical thinking, and modeling skills
• Negotiation skills, stakeholder management, user involvement skills

Education / Certification Requirements

A Bachelor’s Degree in a technology related field is required

Clearance Requirements

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information;

an active Top Secret / SCI clearance is required. Please be aware that onboarding can take 4-6 weeks for this position.

Other Duties Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.

Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. About Us Northern Virginia-based Precision Solutions is an expert in staffing solutions for companies of any size that open the door to new opportunities and seek outstanding talent.

We pride ourselves on being versatile enough to tailor our relationships to the needs of each individual client, being agile in the fast-paced marketplace, and being precise in meeting the needs of any company.

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