Business Analyst, Sr

Are you an Business Analyst, Sr looking to positively affect the lives of millions of people? The selected candidate will join a team of dreamers, drivers, and doers helping reshape healthcare IT within the Veterans Affairs.

Additional perks with TISTA will include above Industry Healthcare Benefits, Remote Working Options, Paid Time Off, Training/Certification opportunities, Healthcare Savings Account & Flexible Savings Account, Paid Life Insurance, Short-term & Long-term Disability, 401K Match, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, Paid Holidays, Military Leave, and much more!

Build consensus, aggregates team objectives and progress and publishes to the scrum/Kanban team and the customer.
• Implement consistent Agile process and tools for product management and lead the development of priorities and commitments
• Removes impediments through provision of appropriate resources, guidance, and escalation
• Collaborates with the ISSO, product manager, other scrum masters, and architecture to ensure alignment on strategy and execution
• Ensures adherence to Agile practice through agile ceremonies, retrospectives, etc.
• Ensures successful delivery of large impact and/or cross-functional product initiatives
• Coaches, mentors, and provides guidance to other scrum masters and team members
• Ensure metrics are used and communicated for continuous improvement
• Ability to promote psychological safety and collaboration amongst team
• Work with the product owner to gather, analyze, design, and document product requirements for a new IT solution
• Evaluate business processes, anticipate requirements, uncover areas of improvement, and develop functional solutions
• Responsible for creating/updating documents required as part of an agile system development lifecycle including epics, features, user stories, detailed functional specifications, and inputs for technical design
• Coordinate with the technical development team to ensure complete understanding of functional specifications
• Review/edit requirement specifications, business processes and recommendations related to the client's proposed solution
• Support the business by becoming a Subject Matter Expert on the product/solution
• Support user-centered design activities such as end-user focus groups and usability analysis
• Facilitate meetings and discussion as needed during the project lifecycle
• Develop education & outreach materials including user guides and other external communications
• Prioritize initiatives based on business needs and requirements
• Support product testing efforts including user acceptance testing
• Assist in capturing meeting minutes

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Communications, Business Management, Computer Science, or a related discipline
• In-depth knowledge of Agile scaling methodologies as well as Scrum, and Kanban
• Familiarity or working knowledge of OKRs preferred but not required
• Requires excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational and team building skills, business judgment, and proven expertise in directing the efforts of a technical staff
• In-depth knowledge of business functions and extensive understanding of business operations, strategies and objectives
• Strong communication, facilitation, presentation, and consensus building skills
• Experience in analyzing the business and functional impact of change requests (CRs)
• Must possess sound interpersonal and information gathering skills, being able to relate well to others at all levels throughout the organization and have the ability to work in a team environment, effectively interacting with others
• Strong organizational skills to prioritize issues to perform proactive planning activities, ability to function in a complex environment
• Must be able to work quickly with a high degree of accuracy
• Able to work under minimal supervision
• Excellent writing skills and ability to produce polished written products
• Close attention to formatting details
• Ability to translate technical information into clear documents to be used by a variety of audiences
• Proven knowledge and experience using Microsoft Office Suite including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, and Access

Education

• Bachelors of Science or Bachelor of Arts

Clearance:

• US Residency Requirement (3/last 5 years working in US)
• Must be eligible to obtain a Public Trust clearance

Location

• Remote, USA

Pay Range:

• This position ranges from $38,145 to $61,625.
• The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
• Also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of compensation, such as bonuses.
• TISTA associates are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits plan! More information can be found here: https://tistatech.com/working-at-tista/