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Do you want to make a difference? 
Cognosante employees are passionate about improving people’s lives. With an innovative mindset and an unwavering commitment to those we serve, we partner with healthcare, civilian and defense agencies to deliver exceptional public services and programs. Our multi-faceted technology and customer experience (CX) solutions achieve program outcomes, solve critical challenges and create meaningful change. Whether we are helping Veterans access healthcare faster, ensuring that members of the military complete their missions safely, or helping people obtain health insurance, our work touches millions of people. Are you ready to make a difference?

Come Join Our Team 
Our mission is to deliver excellence in support to Defense Health Agency (DHA) Medical Logistics (MEDLOG) Information Technology (IT) Program Management Office (PMO) IT capabilities through the Defense Medical Logistics - Enterprise Solution (DML-ES) program. DML-ES PMO delivers capabilities to support the DoD and VA in Asset Management, Materiel Management, Assemblage Maintenance, Equipment and Biomedical Maintenance Management, and Facility/Environment of Care Management. The DMLS-ES PMO supports the software development lifecycle (SDLC) activities for the legacy Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support (DMLSS) application and its replacement, LogiCole.
 
What is the position? 
The Senior Business Analyst will support the DML-ES PMO in the sustainment of the Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support (DMLSS), DMLSS Customer Area Management (DCAM), Joint Medical Asset Repository (JMAR) and Narcotics Ordering Review and Approval (NORA) applications and programs.
 
What will I get to do?  

The Sr. Business Analyst will:

• Maintain the product backlog, with detailed, actionable, and prioritized epics, features, and user stories and acceptance criteria

• Collaborate with the development team to convey goals, answer questions, and accept completed user stories

• Demonstrate completed user stories and increments to business stakeholders

• Assist with business cases and elicit requirements

• Identify, organize, and prioritize, dependencies and risks across teams and projects

• Requirements management, communication, and analysis

• Develop presentations and documents

• Collaborate with project leadership and stakeholders to deliver the project on time, with high quality, and in alignment with the customer’s expectations

• Interact effectively and professionally with clients, stakeholders, partners, sub-contractors, and vendors recognizing you will be the face of Cognosante in many conversations

• Develop a keen understanding of program goals and requirements and develop a vision to both meet the customer’s current needs, and for evolution of the program to meet changing client needs

• Anticipate project challenges, risk scenarios, and prepare, lead, and execute proactive mitigation strategies to ensure optimal results

• Escalate key issues and recommend solutions to project and client leadership

• Ensure targets for contractual performance metrics/SLAs are met or exceeded, and provide analysis and communication to ensure appropriate focus on critical attention areas

• Identify and execute on opportunities for process improvements

• Meet individual potential and performance expectations

• Maintain knowledge of DML-ES rules and regulations

• Ensure compliance with client-driven management and development methodologies/standards including DevSecOps (DSO) processes

• Other duties as assigned by project leadership.

 
What qualifications do I need? 

Candidates must be a U.S. Citizen, hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent and show demonstrated experience in:

• Demonstrated success in modeling business processes, eliciting requirements, identifying business process improvements, and developing an overall solution vision and roadmap

• Experience in creating business process flows, wireframes, and/or mockups using modeling tools such as Visio

• Experience working in an agile scrum solution development environment

• Proficiency with MS Office Suite, MS Teams, MS Project, GoToMeeting, and SharePoint

• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Public Trust Understanding of agile methodologies, particularly SAFe, Scrum and Kanban

• Understanding of DevSecOps methodologies and tools

What additional characteristics will help me thrive?  

Demonstrated knowledge or experience that enhance the delivery of excellence include the following areas:

• Expe