Business Analyst

ARETUM, a leading government contracting company specializing in technology-enabled mission support services, is seeking a knowledgeable and detail-oriented Legislative Business Analyst to join our team. As a Legislative Business Analyst at ARETUM, you will play a crucial role in researching and analyzing legislative policies and their impact on our clients' operations, providing valuable insights and recommendations.

ARETUM is known for providing cutting-edge solutions and outstanding service to Federal clients in various sectors, including Next Generation Analytics, Engineering Services, Training Services, IT Systems, Cyber Security, PMO Support, and Financial Consulting. Our mission is to deliver technology-driven solutions that meet the unique needs of our government clients, enabling them to achieve their objectives effectively and efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Capture detailed business requirements, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria in JIRA
• Work with Product Owner/System Owner, Development, UX/UI, QA team, and Subject Matter Experts to ensure alignment and proper interpretation of complex functional requirements.
• Ensure end-to-end requirements traceability, mapping user stories to software test cases, applicable business processes, wireframes, and UX comps.
• Leverage strong written and verbal communication skills to drive requirements sessions in a large setting including Product Owners, Subject Matter Experts, Project Manager, Architect, Team Leads, and client personnel.
• Collaborate with team members, share knowledge, and continuously improve business analysis efforts, identify and close gaps.
• Document functional specifications, traceability matrices, process flow diagrams, wireframes, meeting agenda, meeting minutes, and other supporting artifacts.
• Actively participate in Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Grooming, Review, and Retrospective sessions, and give application demo to the Product Owners/Subject Matter Experts.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in documenting business and functional requirements
• 3+ years working in an Agile environment, with demonstrated ability to clearly articulate User Stories and Conditions of Satisfaction to development teams
• Web-based software development experience involving complex workflows.
• Experience working with large size teams consisting of multiple Scrum teams
• Demonstrated ability to elicit, create, and analyze functional and non-functional requirements
• Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs
• Experience presenting detailed summaries of progress and updates
• Ability to facilitate and drive group discussions to build a shared understanding of software requirements
• Ability to foster solid working relationships with senior-level management and subject matter experts within the team and client organization
• Experience working within teams that include remote team members
• Propensity to mentor staff on functional expertise and provide peer reviews of deliverables for other product lines
• Confident in requirement knowledge to help lead change and implement new strategies company-wide
• Ability to work independently and in an awesome team setting
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Balsamiq tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to pass a basic government background check
• Work location is remote with the potential of infrequent travel to the Midwest area
• US Citizen or individual with authorization to work in the U.S. (No C2C; sponsorship of individuals is not feasible)

ARETUM is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified candidates will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to disability, race, color, religious creed, national origin, sexual orientation/gender identity, or age.

ARETUM utilizes e-Verify to check employment authorization.

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