Lead Business Analyst - Remote

The Work:  ICF seeks an energetic and curious Business Analyst to guide development of a user facing, web-based data collection tool, as well as a portfolio of business intelligence products. 

Job Location: Remote within the United States. This position requires that the job be performed in the United States. If you accept this position, you should note that ICF does monitor employee work locations and blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses, and also prohibits personal VPN connections.  

• Our core work hours are 10am - 4pm Eastern Time with the option to start earlier or work later depending on your time zone.   

• You may be asked to travel for a conference or to another ICF location for collaboration once a quarter. 

What You Will Do: 

• Typical projects include development of client-centric business intelligence dashboards and reports related to model participations in Medicare models, and file upload/model information intake.   

• Duties will also include participating in release and sprint planning, obtaining tech approaches and rough order of magnitudes (ROM) for proposed enhancements or new work, presenting ROMs to client and PO to help prioritize releases, liaising between client(s), developer(s), and quality assurance tester(s), to ensure satisfaction and understanding. 

• Plan stories and BUS/TUS epics for releases and sprints; participate in release planning, baselining, and development 

• Liaising between client(s), developer(s), and quality assurance tester(s); answering developer questions and communicating with client to ensure team is maintaining velocity 

• Assist scrum masters and tech leads in eliminating delays and blocks to developers 

• Breaking down Epics (BUS and TUS) into functional user stories and ordering them in a way that makes sense to the product team and meets business user needs 

• Ensuring user stories include acceptance criteria and labels that reasonably cover all areas necessary for complete testing of the functionality 

• Leading Discuss BUS, refinement, and sprint planning meetings to ensure work is matched and complements each developer's strengths and objectives 

• Working with tech leads to help identify patterns in defects and work out processes to ensure there are no reopen defects. 

What You Will Bring With You:  

• Bachelor’s degree; OR a four-year degree such as B.S., B.A., or B.Sc.; OR completion of 6+ weeks of a programming boot camp plus 1+ year of IT-related experience; OR 4 years of relevant industry experience without a formal degree  

• 5+ years experience in a Business Analyst role

• At least one Scrum or other Agile certification 

• Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust  

• Candidate must reside in the U.S., be authorized to work in the U.S., and all work must be performed in the U.S. 

• Candidate must have lived in the U.S. for three (3) full years out of the last five (5) years  

What We Would Like You To Bring With You: