Lead Business Analyst Jobs

Project Management, defining business requirements, using agile techniques, system testing and data analysis, excellent verbal and written communication skills, experience with testing, test plans, test cases, agility, and exposure to automation testing.

• All other duties as assigned or directed
• Lead the development of highly innovative products/solutions, achieved through collaboration and dialogue with other experts in the field. The candidate will continually assess advancements in technologies to gauge and recommend better solutions for the customer to improve the software developer experience and efficient delivery of software.
• Provide technical advice/input that impact strategic client outputs and Leidos business results.
• Mentor and coach technical staff, proactively shape product vision, and support multiple internal/external initiatives to achieve mission success. The candidate will have past and proven experiences as the technical lead on large, complex projects, and enterprise solutions.
• Impact functional strategy by developing new solutions, processes, standards, or operational plans that position Leidos competitively in the marketplace

1. Skills Requirements:

This experience is the foundation a candidate needs to be successful in this position:

• Experience with system testing and data analysis, which includes creating and running SQL Queries to validate system results.
• Experience in defining business requirements focused on the customer experience.
• Ability to collaborate in a team environment, including with organizations/projects outside your own
• Experience in Agile methodology and related management tools (Confluence, Jira, Kanban, VersionOne/Agility.)
• Experience with cross team collaboration with groups or organizations outside the project team you led.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including presentation skills.
• Ability to work as a Project Manager and/or back up Project Manager time to time in medium to large scale projects.
• Adept knowledge in developing project management artifacts such as detailed project plans/schedules with dependency
• Experience leading projects related to Software Development in a large corporation or federal government agencies.
• Experience using agile techniques for requirements elicitation software testing quality assurance processes, and writing technical documentation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to explain grants management policies, processes, and technical information clearly and accurately.

• Agile development process and ceremonies including scrums, planning events, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and demos.
• Ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Version one (Agility) or Jira.
• Demonstrate ability to navigate projects through established processes.
• Experience working in a scaled agile/scrum environment managing requirements, backlogs and roadmaps of multiple projects and products.
• Demonstrate ability to analyze risks and uncertainties
• Analyzing and responding to requirements
• Ability to communicate with Directors, Customers, and Executives on progress, status and risks about the project
• Developing and leading presentations
• Ability to work as a Co-PM and lead tasks related to project management
• Support User Interface (UI) and database validation activities by documenting test plans and test scenarios, identifying and creating test data, executing test cases and test scenarios, identifying defects and performing defect management.
• Project management experience
• Comprehensive knowledge of Scrum and Kanban
• Strong communication and collaborative skills in providing technical direction and hands-on software development to include design, development, and testing.
• Experience engaging in business process analysis, understanding the customer's business process requirements, and capable of translating those business requirements into business and technical documentation and specifications.

Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:

• PMP certification would be a plus
• Experience documenting requirements in the form of epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with Ready APIs, testing, writing, communication.
• Experience validating system results match the expectation of the requirements.
• Experience developing and maintaining technical documentation.

• Master's degree and 5+ years of experience in a related field or bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience in a related field
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance