Sr. Staff Business Analyst Lead

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems (NGDS) is looking for a Senior Staff Business Analyst Lead / Operational Subject Matter Expert in support of an emerging opportunity related to Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO) and Electromagnetic Battle Management (EMBM).

The Business Analyst Lead will transform their operational experience and knowledge of Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO) into software epics and user stories that can be implemented in software and ultimately realized as capabilities in support of warfighter objectives. The Business Analyst Lead works closely and collaboratively with a government Product Owner to maintain the product backlog.

The ideal candidate will be a cross-functional team player, willing to take on challenges, who collaborates with internal and external teams, and is driven to provide solutions to internal and external customers.

This position is contingent upon program award.

Responsibilities Include:

• Decomposes epics, features, and operational use cases into low level software user stories and acceptance criteria that can be configured and developed in Agile development sprints
• Maintains and grooms overall product backlog in close coordination with a Government Product Owner
• Interfaces on a system and requirements level with the customer on a regular basis; helps translate warfighter point of view into technical statements and vice-versa
• Verifies that software products meet the intended operational need
• Acts as the ‘Voice of the Customer’ when direct Government participation is unavailable to the development team
• Works with and directly supports multiple Cross-Functional Agile scrum teams to develop high-priority features that meet end-user requirements
• Assists in the development of Test Plans and test Scripts that ensure developed software meets the ‘Definition of Done’
• Assists authoring and development of contract deliverable documentation related to user requirements and user interfaces
• Works with stakeholders to elicit, capture and elaborate their requirements, documenting requirements to a level that enables effective delivery of required changes without prescribing solutions
• Responsible for validating team work products
• Work closely with customer technical leadership to identify and prioritize opportunities to extend current system capabilities and translate those opportunities into a prioritized portfolio of new user capabilities

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 14 years’ experience; or Master’s degree and 12 years’ experience
• Current U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secret Clearance (adjudicated within the last 5 years), with ability to obtain a Top Secret /SCI (w/ Polygraph) security clearance
• 5+ years in an Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations, or equivalent role.
• 2+ years performing business analysis, requirements analysis, and agile user story/use case analysis
• Knowledge and direct experience of EMS/JEMSO mission and processes.
• 3+ years’ exposure to Agile Methodology, Tools (Atlassian, etc.), Practices, and Ceremonies
• Previous experience supporting / briefing Agile Software Demonstration events

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a key role on previous Agile Software Development teams
• Experience with the Atlassian Tool Suite for Backlog Management: Jira Align, Jira, Confluence
• Familiarity with Cloud technology: Azure and/or AWS
• Familiarity with Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Experience working with and managing software requirements
• Experience with Software Test procedure development and maintenance
• Experience with automated software testing and test software (TestComplete, Robot Framework, etc.)
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