Business Analyst

ASRC Federal is a leading government contractor furthering missions in space, public health and defense. As an Alaska Native owned corporation, our work helps secure an enduring future for our shareholders. Join our team and discover why we are a top veteran employer and Certified Great Place to Work™

ASRC Federal Vistronix (ASRC Federal) is actively seeking a Business Analyst to join our team and support defining business requirements for software to support our federal customer. The successful candidate will have a solid understanding of Business Analysis principles and tools, possess excellent written and oral skills, be able to create and edit technical documents, and be able to define requirements for government systems and processes. This is a fully remote position.

Responsibilities:

• The successful candidate will work with business sponsors and other relevant stakeholders to define and document the business requirements for complex government software systems. The ability to work with both technical and non-technical audiences is very important, so having a solid understanding of the software development process is key. Principal responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
• Performing business analysis to support the project managers in defining project scope and objectives,
• Facilitating meetings with subject matter experts from various levels of the business to organize work and priorities,
• Analyzing business processes for new and revised business applications,
• Eliciting information and functional requirements from product owners and business sponsors through oral and written communication,
• Participating in Scrum and Sprint Ceremony meetings and processes,
• Documenting requirements, planning meeting agendas and scheduling requirements elicitation. Developing user stories and workflow diagrams to support the elicitation process. Working with developers to generate mockups of proposed solutions, presenting mockups and refining requirements,
• Creating Concept of Operations, Business Case, and Alternatives Analysis style deliverables,
• Collecting and documenting preliminary data requirements,
• Assist in designing technical specifications for complex, integrated government systems which include numerous feeders crossing agency boundaries,
• Education and Experience:
• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience is preferred.
• 6 years' experience in software/hardware development efforts.

Required Skills and Competencies:

• Strong technical writing skills, with the ability to concisely describe business requirements and functional requirements.
• Creating required business process deliverable documents. Examples of documents include concept of operations, business case, and alternatives analysis documentation.
• Ability to use a variety of software tools for managing requirements, creating diagrams and written documents to communicate with a variety of stakeholders; both technical and non-technical.
• Examples of tools would include Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Azure, and Jira
• Documentation of business requirements. Examples of documentation include business requirement specifications (BSR), workflow diagrams, context diagrams, use cases, and user stories.
• Understanding of user interfaces and most common approaches found in GUIs
• Presentation of requirements findings and mockups for review with sponsors and end users.
• Ability to understand formulas used in financial calculations and to describe relevant workflows.
• Business Process analysis skills.

Desired Skills:

• Experience working with a wide range of personnel, including business sponsors, product owners, government project managers, development teams, and end users at all levels of the organization.
• Familiarity with formalized requirements management frameworks (including requirements traceability) such as IEEE and ITIL.
• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts.
• Solid understanding of Agile and Scaled Agile (SAFe) methodologies.
• Familiarity with integrating COTS and custom software as part of an enterprise software solution.
• Experience with Systems Analysis tasks.
• Systems design skills would include UML diagrams, mockups, context diagrams, entity relationship diagrams and object models.
• Familiarity with data modeling concepts.
• Experience with GIS technology and methodology.
• Working knowledge of database systems (SQL Server preferred).
• Experience with Power App development.
• Prior experience as a web-based software developer (C# and JavaScript experience preferred).
• Experience designing web interfaces including services and writing specifications.

The successful candidate is subject to a U.S. Federal Government background investigation and must be able to meet the requirements to hold a position of public trust.

We invest in the lives of our employees, both in and out of the workplace, by providing competitive pay and benefits packages. Benefits offered may include health care, dental, vision, life insurance; 401(k); education assistance; paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law. The salary offered will depend on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, education, geographic location, internal equity, business needs, and other factors permitted by law. Posted pay ranges are a general guideline only and are not a guarantee of compensation or salary.

EEO Statement

ASRC Federal and its Subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.