Application Systems Analyst Lead

Role Description

Aretum is seeking an Application Systems Analyst Lead for a role supporting a large-scale federal digital content management and systems integration program. In the systems analyst capacity, you will work directly with government business stakeholders, user experience staff, and subject matter experts to define the business rules, metadata mappings, and workflow designs that drive content exchange between major enterprise systems, turning ambiguous business needs into clear, buildable user stories for a small Agile development team. In the lead capacity, you will run the delivery engine of the engagement, facilitating Agile ceremonies, tracking sprint performance against committed story points, reporting progress and risks to government stakeholders, and keeping a sprint-based contract on schedule through closeout. This position suits a senior analyst who is equally comfortable in a metadata crosswalk spreadsheet and a program status briefing.

Due to the nature of our work as a federal consulting organization, employees may be expected to handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and must adhere to applicable safeguarding and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, and document content eligibility criteria and business rules for content selection.
• Inventory source and target metadata fields and develop field mapping, transformation, and normalization rules.
• Define metadata quality, completeness, and schema compliance validation rules.
• Document workflow states, approvals, escalations, and exception paths.
• Document exception handling for excluded, duplicate, or incomplete content.
• Translate analysis into well-formed JIRA user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with government QA and testing staff on acceptance and testing criteria.
• Provide analytical input into lifecycle documentation maintained by the client.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies for a scrum team on a three-week sprint cadence.
• Track and report sprint performance using JIRA dashboards and program reporting tools.
• Prepare and deliver clear written and verbal status reports to government stakeholders.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies with government project managers, developers, testers, and subject matter experts.
• Monitor delivery against contract deliverables and sprint commitments.
• Support onboarding, delivery governance, KPI definition, and backlog structuring at engagement start-up.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of combined experience in business and systems analysis and project management/project lead supporting software development teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Library or Information Science, or a related field, or equivalent additional experience.
• Demonstrated experience working in Agile and Scrum environments.
• Hands-on experience with project tracking and reporting in JIRA or an equivalent tool.
• Experience with digital content or digital collections management.
• Experience analyzing and documenting workflow systems.
• Strong working knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC) best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to produce precise analytical artifacts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and keep a distributed, fully remote team coordinated and on schedule.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting federal government clients on Agile software development engagements.
• Familiarity with metadata standards such as Dublin Core, METS, MODS, or MARC.
• Experience as a Scrum Master or Agile delivery lead, and certifications such as CSM, PMP, or PMI-ACP.
• Experience supporting performance-based contracts monitored under a Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP).
• Familiarity with the program's technical environment, including Python and Django services.
• Experience with reporting and visualization tools such as Tableau or Grafana.
• Familiarity with accessibility requirements under Section 508 and WCAG 2.1.
• Experience working with Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).

Travel Requirements

This is a remote position; however, occasional travel may be required based on project needs, client meetings, team collaboration events, or training sessions. Travel is expected to be less than 10% and will be communicated in advance whenever possible.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Short Term & Long-Term Disability
• Training & Development