Business Analyst - Acuity INC

Acuity, Inc. has an opening for a Business Analyst to support a very visible government client. Are you a dynamic and creative individual who enjoys working in a collaborative environment to develop sophisticated applications? Come check out Acuity!

In this role, you will serve as the Business Analyst and the customer's voice. The Business Analyst has deep customer knowledge and an excellent ability to transform strategic intent into fully elaborated requirements in user stories, feature specifications and acceptance criteria. On-site requirements are three days a week with occasional travel to Washington DC for required meetings. This role requires a coding assessment via HackerRank. Candidates MUST reside in DC or VA and available to work onsite in Herndon, VA.

• 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. 

• Bachelor's Degree with experience in a related Information Technology field
• Certified Scrum Master
• 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
• Prefer experience in agile development roles including Scrum Master or Product Owner,
• Knowledge of challenges and opportunities faced by DevSecOps agile teams.
• 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
• Expert in Agile Methodology
• Business process engineering experience.
• Organized, controlled, engaged, polished 
• Effective meeting management
• Ability to be decisive
• Self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit

Clearance Requirement:

• Must have Active Secret or above security clearance.

About Acuity Inc:

Acuity is a leading management and technology consulting firm that specializes in serving the federal government. Our innovative, collaborative and rewarding work environment has earned repeat honors from the Washington Business Journal’s Best Places to Work and SmartCEO Corporate Culture awards. 

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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