Business Analyst (Senior)/SAFHER

Precise is looking for an experienced Agile Senior Business Analyst to play a key role in the development and implementation of a new product that will be integral to the future of U.S. food safety. In addition to expertise in the SDLC Agile framework, we are looking for a deep listener who can peel away layers to get to the heart of client requirements. We need someone who is a proactive, concise communicator, a strategic thinker, and has the ability to think ahead about interdependencies and anticipate risks -- a trusted resource for internal and external stakeholders. Experience with digital transformation, new cloud product builds, data integration, and managing a wide range of stakeholders would be helpful.

The Senior Business Analyst is responsible for gathering and documenting system/business requirements, performing requirement analysis and systems analysis, liaising between stakeholders and development team, facilitating design and of software solutions, assisting with the testing process, and helping quality assurance process.

The position is mostly remote but may require occasional travel. Must be located in the East Coast or Central time zones. 

Project Description

The AFDO SAFHER project (Association of Food and Drug Officials, System for Agriculture, Food, Health, E-Inspections, and Registration) is building out a new, modernized version of a legacy platform, using Appian. As the build phase continues, we are growing the team with a Project Manager and a Senior Business Analyst to begin customer on-boarding and implementation – which will require detailed requirements-gathering to facilitate configurations. This project is integral to improving the U.S. food safety process. Looking for a November 1 start date, no Public Trust clearance required.

Responsibilities

Responsible for stakeholder management, requirement elicitation, preparing estimations for business analysis tasks and deliverables, systems analysis, preparing functional specifications using user stories, acceptance criteria and use case narration. Responsible for ensuring unique business needs are properly translated to functional specifications and provide a system solution, assessing options for process improvement, leading cross functional team collaborations, assisting with the maintenance of project schedules and developing various status reports.

Job Requirements

• Plans business analysis efforts, including stakeholder analysis, communication planning, and elicitation techniques.
• Facilitates requirements meetings, interview sessions, brainstorming, documentation analysis, and other techniques as necessary.
• Supports customer meetings to understand current client business practices and business needs supporting requirements analysis.
• Ensures that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.
• Validates requirements with business stakeholders and team members.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and team members regarding requirements development and translation into software specifications.
• Supports traceability efforts from high-level business needs through functional validation
• Participates in requirements prioritization and backlog grooming sessions.
• Leads or participates in multiple efforts by completing and updating project documentation; manages project scope; adjusts schedules when necessary; determines daily priorities; ensures efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; follows proper escalation paths; and manages customer and supplier relationships.
• Provides leadership to team members and peers by collaborating with others; articulating ideas and viewpoints to senior management, peers, and others; identifies and initiates projects; manages resources; drives the resolution of issues; and holds self and team accountable for results.
• Writes detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions and dependencies required to develop or modify applications.
• Manages changes to baseline requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools.
• Works closely with developers and testers to ensure all requirements are understood and have corresponding test scripts.
• Manages the documentation for multiple applications and releases across more than one development team while meeting deadlines.

Required Skills

• Seven (7) plus years of work experience in Information Technology as a Business Analyst in an Agile environment.
• Seven (7) plus years of work experience facilitating development of technical requirements, user stories, and mockups to address business needs and work with developers and testers to ensure solutions meet expectations.
• Able to facilitate meetings with business owners, technical leads, and other stakeholders.
• Captures business needs and develops corresponding functional solutions.
• Supports UAT efforts in conjunction with business owners/ users.
• Agile development practices
• Able to support Scrum Master activities for technical team coordination.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools
• Proficient in formal software development life cycle processes
• Proficient with Microsoft DevOps
• Demonstrated abilities as a driven, self-starter and quick study.
• Report Generation

Desired Skills

• Experience in a government or government contracting environment

ABOUT US

Precise Software Solutions, Inc., an SBA 8(a) program participant, is an innovative small business with a proven record of success delivering quality services and solutions to government organizations. A CMMI Level 3 company, Precise serves as a trusted advisor to senior technology executives and helps government agencies enhance and expand their information technology capabilities. Precise helps their customers capitalize on the efficiencies offered by technological advancements and ensures the integrity of their IT systems and programs so they can perform their public mission more effectively. The company is known for delivering agile and innovative solutions and specializes in strategic consulting, system modernization and integration, digital transformation and experience, infrastructure and cloud implementation, and data management and analytics.

BENEFITS AND PERKS:

• Comprehensive Health Benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision) including High Deductible Health plan where company pays 100% of the deductible for your family.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA) 
• Retirement Plan with 4% match and discretionary match at year end
• Paid Time Off (PTO): 15 days of PTO accrued per year; 7 holidays+ 3 Floating holidays; 2 Innovation days (paid training days)
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Jury Duty leave 
• Life and AD&D Insurance 
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Training and Development 
• Wellness Incentives & Discount programs
• Employee Referral Program 
• Annual Charity Donation Match 
• Awards and Recognition

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Precise is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification), national origin, age, disability, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information or any other factor protected by law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment, promotion, wages, benefits and all other privileges, terms and conditions of employment. The company is dedicated to seeking all qualified applicants.