Clearwaters.IT is seeking a highly motivated and self-directed professional to fill an opening for a Senior Functional Analyst role that will be responsible for leading the capturing of business requirements for software development teams. This role involves close collaboration with business users, IT teams, and leadership to elaborate and document requirements, and manage requirements in an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool. The ideal candidate has a strong background in software development, and Agile / SAFe methodologies.
This position is 100% remote. Candidate MUST reside within the United States to be considered.
Job Responsibilities:
Perform Agile requirements' management activities for a product team; perform the analysis of user needs to determine functional, cross-functional, and technical requirements
Conduct user interviews, leading and facilitating sessions, and developing business process models and formal specifications
Work with customers, team members, stakeholder users, and other contractors to gather, and document business, functional, technical & non-technical requirements
Perform elaboration of user stories and decomposition of stories into backlog items and determine acceptance criteria
Use an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool (JIRA) for Requirements Management, Testing, and Defect Management) to create and manage requirements, Epics, Sub-epics, and User Stories.
Collection, tracking and monitoring of system and business requirements
Validate requirements and integration
Conduct backlog refinement sessions
Coordinate with Systems Engineers to assess impact on technical solutions
Manage and coordinate requirements for various projects
Writing and client delivery of project documents
Identify and manage risks and issues impacting the progress and outcome of the project
Develop and maintain scheduled project/product backlog(s)
Own and manage requirements change control
Develop Change Requests per established policies and procedures
Facilitate accurate configuration management for project related artifacts
Identify, document, verify and track traceability amongst requirements, test cases and potential risks and impediments
Responsible for collecting, analyzing, managing and reporting key Program and Product Team execution status and metrics across all aspects of the Agile product development lifecycle using SAFe.
Perform analysis to identify required tasks and their interrelationships to establish well documented stories
Become a product functional SME.
Lead and mentor junior analysts in accordance with strategy and direction established by the Team Lead
Establish strong relationships with product and business owners
Support development team as needed to help everyone understand the requirements’ details.
Follow agile methodology (Scrum) and deliver requirements/specifications for Sprint teams
Remove impediments from team members to achieve successful completion of Sprints
Provide clear qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders
Support change control processes established to monitor and control project scope
Requirements
Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance
Solid oral and written communication skills, with the demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics to the customer, management and non-technical audiences
Attention to detail and excellent customer service
Highly motivated and analytical; proven problem-solving abilities
Ability to take initiative
Ability and enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced environment
Willingness and enthusiasm to learn new skills, new client environments, and grow domain expertise
Ability to learn quickly
Excellent attention to detail
Ability to conduct independent research to lead or support the resolution of complex questions and issues
Advanced use of MS Office Suite including strong Excel skills
Excellent analytical skills, the ability to…