Lead Business Analyst (Remote)
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ICF is a rapidly growing entrepreneurial multi-faceted consulting company seeking a Lead Business Analyst to support our Department of Defense (DoD) Child and Youth Programs (CYP) program. ICF works with government representatives and users to build and enhance CYP systems. The DoD recognizes the importance of providing military and DoD-affiliated families with access to quality affordable childcare programs. Access to childcare directly affects the efficiency mission readiness morale and retention of DoD personnel worldwide.
Our team is a leading provider of digital transformation services for Federal agencies. Our services focus on enabling agency mission and business transformation using industry-leading low-code platforms mobile applications robotics process automation and data analytics platforms. We are partnered with some of the worlds leading and most innovative companies like Salesforce ServiceNow Microsoft and UiPath. We focus on offering a full range of architecture and planning system implementation integration analytics and O&M for our customers. The ICF team performs custom software development to modernize and integrate siloed legacy applications using modular design standards. The team works closely with clients and other contractors to ensure the performance and reliability of public-facing mission-critical applications.
As a Lead Business Analyst you will collaborate with product owners technical architects and developers to create innovative business systems. This individual is responsible for bridging the gap between development design and product management by eliciting analyzing documenting and communicating concise requirements for implementation based on business needs. Operating in an Agile environment the Lead Business Analyst will utilize analytical and problem-solving skills and leverage technical capabilities to deliver optimal solutions.
The Lead Business Analyst will participate in building and integrating web-based applications to support our DoD Military Family Readiness project. This Lead Business Analyst will work directly with customers and internal subject matter experts to understand the business goals and objectives of the project and then translate those findings into actionable specifications for delivery. The Lead Business Analyst will work with technical leads to design new features and functionality based on customer need collaborate with the development team to refine requirements and manage solutions from design and development through production deployment. The Lead Business Analyst will produce technical documents detailing integration points and features for multiple applications in support of modernization of the legacy systems. The Lead Business Analyst also will work with the Program Manager and Technical Project Manager to codify and document the governance and project processes for the overall DoD Military Family Readiness project enterprise.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with various technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand complex business processes and define business requirements.
- Translate business requirements into concise feasible and verifiable user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Communicating with multiple teams to ensure requirements are clear and well understood from a functional and technical perspective
- Maintain and prioritize user story backlog.
- Work closely with business stakeholders on roadmap creation and own roadmap maintenance.
- Support the solutioning process by developing competencies in various technology platforms.
- Produce and decipher complex technical use cases user stories process flows diagraming data analysis data mapping interfaces reporting and testing activities on web and hosted technologies.
- Develop functional documentation such as use cases functional specifications reports and screen prototypes.
- Conduct system demonstrations for stakeholder feedback and validation.
- Codify and document project processes for use by multiple teams.
- Contribute to an Agile environment and apply best practices through cross-functional collaboration.
- Based on your experiences and interests we may ask you as a technology professional to support growth-related activities including (but not limited to) RFI RFP prototypes and oral presentations. Team members are also expected to uphold and maintain appropriate certifications necessary for their practice expertise.
- Collaborate with UX designers and developers to ensure business requirements are reflected in intuitive user-centered interface designs.
- Contribute to wireframe reviews usability feedback sessions and user acceptance testing to validate design and functionality alignment.
What you must have:
- 8 years of experience as a Business Analyst in a fast-paced application development environment.
- 8 years of experience facilitating requirements gathering Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions capturing client requirements and feedback
- 5 years experience in documenting requirements and specifications for web and/or software development teams
- 5 years recent experience working in an Agile development environment as a business analyst (i.e. Scrum Kanban etc.)
- 3 years of experience collaborating with UI/UX teams or directly supporting user interface design and usability improvements (e.g. contributing to wireframes user flows or prototyping tools such as Figma Sketch Adobe XD)
- Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Lawful Resident (Green Card Holder) per federal contract requirements
- MUST RESIDE IN THE United States (U.S.) and the work MUST BE PERFORMED in the United States (U.S.) as this work is for a federal contract and laws do apply.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain Public Trust.
What we would like you to have:
- Experience developing standard documentation including requirement and design specifications use cases and other supporting system documentation
- Experience with technical writing and developing technical requirements documents
- Excellent oral and written communication skills especially in a client interaction context and in facilitating large team meetings to drive delivery
- Experience scoping work efforts into actionable pieces for delivery
- Bachelors degree is preferred or equivalent years of experience
- Good working knowledge of the Scaled Agile methodology
- Agile/Scrum Master Certification preferred
- Excellent analytical problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work independently and within one or more teams with excellent time management organizational and reporting skills
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Working at ICF
ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider but were not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges navigate change and shape the future.We can only solve the worlds toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer.Together our employees are empowered to share theirexpertiseand collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information please read ourEEOpolicy.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Reasonable Accommodations are available including but not limited to for disabled veterans individuals with disabilities and individuals withsincerely heldreligious beliefs in all phases of the application and employment process. To requestan accommodationplease emailand we will be happy toassist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extentto provide needed reasonable accommodations.
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Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position including but not limited to relevant work experience skills certifications and competencies that align to the specified role geographic location education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.
The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:
$81094.00 - $137860.00Nationwide Remote Office (US99)Required Experience:
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Employment Type
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