Business Analyst - Mid- Level

Business Analyst - Mid- LevelJob Category : Information TechnologyTime Type : Full timeMinimum Clearance Required to Start : NoneEmployee Type : RegularPercentage of Travel Required : Up to 10%Type of Travel : Local*

What You’ll Get to Do

CACI is currently looking for a Business Analyst with agile methodology experience to join our BEAGLE (Border Enforcement Applications for Government Leading-Edge Information Technology) Agile Solution Factory (ASF) Team supporting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) client located in Northern Virginia! Join this passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

As a member of the BEAGLE ASF Team, you will support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity.

CBP agents and officers are on the front lines, every day, protecting our national security by combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity.

ASF programs thrive in a culture of innovation and are constantly seeking individuals who can bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels

What you’ll get to do :

Serve as an experienced Business / Systems Analyst who has worked in an Agile / Scrum environment, which developed custom software and database applications.

Possess both an understanding of real-world mission / business objectives and a working grasp of software development practices and technologies.

Serve as the focal point for the capture, analysis, and management of functional and non-functional systems requirements, and user stories.

Show a demonstrated skill in effective decomposition of mission / business objectives into requirements contained within a product backlog which can then be implemented in a series of short and iterative development cycles.

Review high-level requirements provided by the Product Owner and decompose into user stories.

Meet regularly with the Product Owner to review and prioritize the product backlog.

Clearly communicate business needs to a development team through user stories and acceptance criteria.

Provide guidance and clarification of user stories to the development team as a proxy Product Owner.

Work closely with the Scrum Master to establish Release / Sprint backlogs, resolve impediments, and provide direction on scope of work to be accomplished.

Work collaboratively with the Product Owner and external stakeholders, as well as the product development team during the development cycle to ensure the customer needs are being met.

Develop product roadmaps and participate in Integrated Release Planning

Review and evaluate work done by development team to ensure proper scope has been met.

Identify use cases that are candidates for automated regression tests.

Lead the demonstrations to the Product Owner and stakeholders.

Adaptable and able to work constructively with a technically and geographically diverse team.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications :

Bachelor’s Degree or greater ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems, or a related discipline.

Will consider experience in lieu of degree

Five (5) or more years of experience as a business analyst on iterative software development projects.

Translating business requirements into user stories, use cases and technical requirements.

Experience with functional decomposition of large business needs into multiple layers of requirements / user stories.

Creating a product backlog that provides business value to the customer.

Strong skills with MS Office tools (Excel, Word, Project, Visio) and Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence)

Experience conducting backlog refinement sessions with stakeholders and the Product Owner to gather and validate business requirements.

Experience with coaching a development team to understand the business value and mission of the supported product.

Experience in Agile Scrum methodologies and estimating techniques.

Experience analyzing data and data relationships across an organization’s business areas.

Working knowledge of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, CM, quality assurance, and release management.

Developing business processes, capability needs, and business requirements.

Adaptable and able to work constructively with a technically and geographically diverse team.

Pass CBP background investigation (U.S. Citizenship required).

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have :

Working on Database / Reporting development projects

Technical background in data related technologies such as SQL, RDBMS

Certified Business Analysis Professional

Strong interest in agile software development practices and delivering deployable software in short sprints

What We Can Offer You :

• We’ve been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.
• Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.
• We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.
• We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation’s highest priorities.
• For over 60 years, the principles of CACI’s unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success.
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