Senior Technical Business Analyst

Location: Washington, DC Metro area (Remote Flexibility)

Description:
Metric5 is looking for a motivated Senior Technical Business Analyst with strong Project Management skills to join an agile program supporting our US Treasury client.

As a Senior Technical Business Analyst, you will be responsible for collaborating with the product owner, SMEs, and stakeholders to analyze tasks and requests to create user stories with acceptance criteria. You will also manage the sprint backlog, lead sprint demos, and participate in all major program ceremonies. You are comfortable working in a customer-facing role in an agile environment, and you are proactive in identifying risks, and developing solutions.

The successful candidate will work directly with customers, developers, and other team members throughout all stages of the development lifecycle to implement application enhancements.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the product backlog and design artifacts in JIRA and Confluence
• Lead requirements elicitation and refinement sessions to uncover business, functional, and technical needs
• Facilitate collection of user feedback and metrics tracking
• Translate customer needs and requirement into epics, features, and user stories
• Maintain requirements traceability and ensure development aligns with business objectives
• Perform gap analysis
• Support business process modeling and human centered design activities
• Work directly with the development teams to clarify requirements
• Translate user stories into test cases and support QA/testing activities
• Support organizational change strategy and artifacts to support a smooth system roll-out
• Develop executive briefing artifacts and info-graphics/diagrams
• Develop and deliver training material such as user guides, quick reference guides, learning videos, and instructor-led training
• Support daily/weekly/quarterly Agile ceremonies
• Product Architecture and Design Best Practices
• Research and analyze new technologies and recommend appropriate solutions
• Analyze and identify areas of risk and develop plans to minimize
• Monitor product licenses and ensure compliance with IT industry regulations

Required Skills:

• 7 or more years of experience in the IT field focused on eliciting requirements and user story writing
• Must have excellent communication skills
• Experience writing acceptance criteria in Gherkin
• Experience in Agile business analysis, product ownership or management
• Knowledge and experience in several agile frameworks (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, XP, Lean, DevOps)
• Strong writing skills
• Working knowledge and documented experience using requirements management tools such as JIRA and Confluence
• Experience with functional and end-to-end testing, such as conducting manual test cases and writing BDD test scripts
• Strong data gathering and analysis skills
• Experience providing end user training
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages like SQL and system integration solutions

Desired Skills and Certifications:

• Experience working in a SAFe Agile environment
• PMP Certification
• Certified Scrum Master
• Technical understanding to connect technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Innovative thinking and the ability to learn new tools and techniques and apply them to the program

Education: Bachelors degree

Years of Experience: 7+ years of relevant experience

government position. Public Trust clearance preferred

Salary Range: $110,000 - $135,000 annually

About Metric5
Metric5 is a small business with big company benefits. We have a passionate team of smart, fun-
caring professionals, and we are here for the long haul. Join our growing team in a business
where your contributions make an enormous impact. Our organization offers a comprehensive
employee benefits package, continuous professional development, with a best in class company
culture that is enjoyable to work in and supports the growth of each of our professionals.
Our benefits include:

• Health & Dental Insurance with 100% of individual coverage paid for by the company
• Vision Insurance
• Life & Short Term Disability Insurance
• 401K with company match (employees are immediately vested)
• Paid Vacation
• 9 Paid Holidays per year (plus 2 paid floating holidays)
• Parental Leave
• Employee Bonuses
• Professional Development Reimbursement Program
• Tuition Assistance Program

Metric5 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration
for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,
national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.