Senior Business Analyst

onsite 5 days per week at our office

Project Scope:
The Business Analyst will capture requirements and assist the team with updating user stories for an examiner workflow tool. The Business Analyst should also be familiar with Agile methodologies and properly update user stories and help facilitate Agile meetings as necessary.

Business Requirements: The examiner workflow tool will replace and enhance a legacy system leveraging AWS cloud services. To support the development, implementation, continuous improvement and maintenance of the tool; a business analyst is required to work with the product owner and development team to ensure a shared understanding of desired outcomes.

Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computing Information Systems, Computer Science, or relevant technical discipline.
Minimum 10 years of experience leading projects or key business initiatives.
2 years of IT portfolio and customer relationship management experience.
At least one of the following or its equivalent:
PMP Certification, PMI-ACP, PMI-PBA, Scaled Agile Framework or CSM (Certified Scrum Master)

Capabilities
Strong oral and written communication skills (writing samples may be requested).
Experience working on AWS GovCloud User Interface (UI) application development related project(s).
Direct experience working closely with the business and technical teams to elicit, analyze, specify, verify, write, and manage business and system requirements for web-based UI and data driven applications.
Strong experience working in the Agile space: Scrum, Kanban and SAFe.
Experience creating user stories with clear acceptance criteria, prioritization, and estimation.
Direct experience facilitating backlog refinement sessions and assisting with release management and PI planning sessions.

Notes:
The candidate is expected to report onsite 5 days per week at our office.

VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status