Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Marathon TS is looking for an experienced Business Analyst to support a federal customer on a hybrid basis. This position requires 3 days on-site in Herndon, VA as well as a Secret clearance.

Responsibilities:

• Owns, manages, develops and prioritizes product backlog of user stories.
• Clearly communicates the requirements to the team and works with individual team members as needed to explain requirements.
• Helps stakeholders envision how their processes will change with the implementation of the solution.
• Establishes user story acceptance criteria and accepts user stories into the baseline.
• Helps to define sprint goals for their project, and acts as the proxy product owner to accept sprint delivered development.
• Assists development teams in researching, troubleshooting, and diagnosing issues, documenting solutions, and managing bug fix release cycles.
• Able to interact with technical staff and work collaboratively to define technical solutions to solve business needs.
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously with strong time management skills.
• Facilitate client-facing meetings to understand requirements and help prioritize organizational strategies and plans.
• Coordinate and lead project team meetings with technical staff and other key stakeholders.
• Assist the team lead in preparing project status reports and presentations by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information.
• Experience with UX tools like Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma, and other relevant design software.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree with experience in a related Information Technology field.
• Experience in gathering requirements.
• Experience writing user stories, including acceptance criteria.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Able to take initiative, manage own workload, and assume responsibility for tasks.
• Able to multi-task, handle multiple projects, and meet internal and client deadlines.
• Experience with Agile methods and tools.
• Previous experience working with Government clients is highly desirable.
• Strong prioritization skills and ability to gather information quickly to re-prioritize in a dynamic environment.
• Strong analytical skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs to be a successful advocate for the customer.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, relationship-building skills, coordination and people skills to promote the improvement of relationships between team members and the overall organization.
• Strong business writing skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with Federal Government clients.
• Business process engineering experience.
• Organized, controlled, engaged, polished.
• Effective meeting management.
• Ability to be decisive.
• Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit.

#CJJOBS Marathon TS is committed to the development of a creative, diverse and inclusive work environment. In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Marathon TS will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Marathon TS does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as "protected status").