Business Analyst

The Health and Civil Sector is seeking a Sr Business Analyst to work on repeatable offerings for Leidos customers and new markets, an emerging business pursuit for Leidos. The ideal candidate for this role must have a “startup mindset” and be able to derive requirements from market and business needs, prioritize requirements through backlog management, translate requirements for consumption by engineering teams, and partner with development leadership to ensure project planning supports successful solution development. We’re looking for an advocate and a champion for this new solution offering!

MUST be a US Citizen or authorized to work in the United States.

Limited travel may be required.

The chosen candidate will work with a variety of stakeholders, including senior IT leaders, and subject matter experts and will be responsible for:

• Understanding and translation of business workflows to project requirements, then decomposition of those business requirements into agile epics and user stories;
• Ensuring business needs are properly translated to user stories that engineering teams can understand and develop within a managed service;
• Document and convey a system solution, assessing options for process improvement, leading cross functional team collaborations, and assisting with the maintenance of project schedules;
• Preparing estimations for business analysis tasks and deliverables, systems analysis, acceptance criteria and use case narration for overall sprint, roadmap, and project planning;
• Stakeholder management, cross business sector collaboration for requirements elicitation, and integration planning.

Job Requirements

• Plan out business analysis efforts, including stakeholder analysis, communication planning, and elicitation techniques.
• Facilitate requirements meetings, interview sessions, brainstorming, documentation analysis, and other techniques as necessary.
• Support subject matter expert meetings to understand current business practices and business needs supporting requirements analysis.
• Ensure that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.
• Understand, Extract and Document user requirements from existing systems, including interactions and interfaces, to support user experience.
• Validate requirements with business stakeholders and team members.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and team members regarding requirements development and translation into software specifications.
• Support traceability efforts from high-level business needs through functional validation
• Lead/Participate in requirements prioritization and product backlog grooming sessions.
• Write detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions and dependencies required to develop or modify applications.
• Manage changes to baselined requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools.
• Work closely with developers and testers to ensure all requirements are understood and have corresponding test scripts.
• Manage the …