Business Analyst at ECS Federal, Inc
Fairfax, VA 22031
About the Job
ECS is seeking a Business Analyst to work in our Washington, DC office.
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Job Description:
The ideal Business Analyst will perform tasks that support the required delivery of analysis and advice to management regarding a diverse set of project, program and operation needs.
- Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of MCT stakeholders, including customers and/or end users.
- Collaborates with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
- Clearly identifies project stakeholders and establish customer classes, as well as their characteristics.
- Conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
- Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
- Works with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
- Researches, reviews, and analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
- Assists in conducting research on products to meet agreed upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts.
- Participates in the QA of solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized.
- Perform gap analyses of the differences between current (as-is) and targeted (to-be) states.
- Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
- Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.
- Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
- Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
- Develops and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
- Assists with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options, and communicating these back to the business stakeholders.
- Manages and tracks the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
- Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree Required
- Minimum 5+ years of experience
- Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development
- Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources
- Understanding of Software Development Life-cycle (SDLC)
- Strong communication (verbal and written) and presentation skills, with experience facilitating group discussions
- Good team player, able to manage multiple assignments, and adapt to changing client needs
- Ability to multi-task with limited supervision in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to synthesize and analyze multiple views and data sets
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong organization and prioritization skills
- Ability to work in a dynamic, collaborative, results-driven environment
- Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance
Desired Skills:
- PMP or Certified Scrum Master certification
- Business Process Engineering experience
- Experience with training and change management
- Experience working with DoD, VA and/or other federal agencies is a plus
- Experience supporting CRM development
- Experience using Jira for requirements gathering and management