BA/SCRUM MASTER, Expert In Recruitment Solutions, Washington, DC
Expert In Recruitment Solutions -
Washington, DC,
US
BA/SCRUM MASTER
Date Posted: 2024-05-18
Job description
BA/SCRUM MASTER
3 days on site in DC
Certifications:
3 days on site in DC
- Responsibilities:
- The Scrum Master/Business Analyst will serve as a dedicated team member who has the primary responsibility to support their self-organizing, self-managing team successfully achieving their daily, iteration, and release goals and delivery objectives
- Proactively seeks opportunities to implement improvements to internal team processes
- Contributes to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork within the organizations Agile project life cycle
- Works with their team(s) to meet established Sprint and Release goals through primary responsibilities of eliminating impediments, facilitating and training on agile processes, and leading continuous improvement efforts within their team
- Facilitates preparation and leading of agile process events including agile planning, demo/Sprint review and collaborative / design sessions
- Uses agile estimation techniques to help the team and program estimate features, epics, and user stories
- Conduct daily stand-up meetings, planning and review sessions, prioritize tasks and mitigate roadblocks
- Work collaboratively with the Product Owner and external stakeholders, as well as the product development team during the development cycle to ensure the customer needs are being met
- Develop product roadmaps and participate in Integrated Release Planning Review and evaluate work done by development team to ensure proper scope has been met
- Identify use cases that are candidates for automated regression tests
- Lead the demonstrations to the Product Owner and stakeholders
- Creating a product backlog that provides business value to the customer
- Experience conducting backlog refinement sessions with stakeholders and the Product Owner to gather and validate business requirements
- Educational Qualifications and Experience:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Finance
- Role Specific relevant technical and business work experience as per required Level Matrix
- Experience in defining and implementing technology solutions for a major financial institution
Extensive experience as a Business Analyst for a large financial institution - Extensive experience in gathering business requirements and developing functional specifications with special emphasis on use cases, defining test cases, and providing user training and support
- Extensive experience with various system development lifecycle methodologies and tailoring artifacts to those methodologies
- Experience with BPM tools like iGrafix, PEGA and Cordys is a plus
- Experience in developing and using these high-level models, as required, to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
- Extensive experience with planning and deploying either business or IT initiatives (preferably both)
- Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques (preferably BPMN)
- Experience with analyzing business processes, identification and successful removal of bottlenecks
- Experience with process-reengineering
Certifications:
- Lean Management, Six Sigma, or similar certification (preferred)
- Required Skills/Abilities:
- Strong process analysis skills and ability to suggest improvements for efficiency and effectiveness of solutions based on industry best practices.
- Knowledge of business analysis best practices (such as BABOK) and ability to effectively apply them.
- Advanced knowledge of specific business area, process, workflows, standards, and business practices
- Proven conceptual, analytical, and judgmental skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to communicate well with all levels, technical as well as non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work directly with clients and management without supervision and to facilitate and navigate discussions with stakeholders to ensure clarity, prioritization, and consensus.
- Leadership skills and ability to work well with diverse team members, often in multiple locations
Ability to work with different points-of-view and lead the team to convergence, while always keeping the project objectives in sight - Strong presentation and facilitation skills
- Excellent personal organization skills and ability to take things to closure without follow-ups
- Knowledge of Business Intelligence tools
- Knowledge of ITIL, service, and process management
- Certificate such as IIBA, ITIL Foundation, etc.
- Knowledge and experience in COTS implementation as BA/BSA on COTS projects
- Experience with implementing information security processes.
- Experience with an IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) tool such as RSAM, Archer
- Experience in project management