Halfaker and Associates, an award-winning high growth small business, creates innovative and customer-centric technology solutions in the areas of Digital Services, Data Analytics, Cyber Security and Cloud Services to improve the health, security and well-being of all Americans. Our commitment to excellence and our vision to “Continue to Serve” has resulted in steady growth and an expanding client base across government agencies in the health, defense, security and intelligence sectors. Our strong focus on internal culture has helped Halfaker achieve several workplace awards including Great Place to Work Certification™ and Tampa Bay Top Workplaces. Headquartered in Arlington, VA, we have employees nationwide. Please take a moment to browse through our website and learn more about what it means to serve with Halfaker.
Halfaker has an opening for a SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST to join our talented, dynamic team. The key responsibilities for this position include:
- Manage and coordinate process requirements for various projects
- Lead Agile requirements management activities; lead the analysis of user needs to determine functional, cross-functional, and technical requirements
- Lead the development and elaboration of user stories and decomposition of stories into backlog items and determine acceptance criteria
- Manage writing and client delivery of project documents
- Manage the collection, tracking and monitoring of system and business requirements
- Identify and manage risks and issues impacting the progress and outcome of the project
- Develop and maintain scheduled project/product sprints and backlog
- Facilitate accurate configuration management for project related artifacts
- Verify traceability amongst requirements, test cases and potential risks and impediments
- Provide daily supervision and direction to support staff as needed
- Responsible for collecting, analyzing, managing and reporting key Program and Product Team execution status and metrics across all aspects of the Agile product development lifecycle using VIP as the minimum performance baseline
- Work closely with the Product Manager to define a product approach to meet the specified user need
- Conduct stakeholder interviews, user requirements analysis, task analysis, conceptual modeling, information architecture, interaction design, and usability testing
- Perform functional analysis and allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships
- Conduct requirement elaboration sessions, work group calls and engage customers to provide requirements and feedback
- Conduct user interviews, leading and facilitating sessions, and developing business process models and formal specifications
- Develop Change Requests per established policies and procedures
Required Skills
- Highly motivated and analytical; proven problem-solving abilities
- Ability to take initiative
- Ability and enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent attention to detail
- Willingness and enthusiasm to learn new skills, new client environments, and grow domain expertise
- Ability to learn quickly
- Ability to conduct independent research to lead or support the resolution of complex questions and issues
- Excellent analytical skills, the ability to integrate information from multiple sources to execute effectively and efficiently in a dynamic environment
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting
Required Experience
Bachelor's Degree in Operations Research, Mathematics, Computer Science, Cost Accounting or related scientific or technical discipline is required
- 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education
5 years of work related work experience
Familiar with a range of digital/web services and solutions, ideally where open source and cloud technologies and agile development methodologies have been applied
Halfaker and Associates, LLC, is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.