Business Process Analyst

The Homeland Sector within Leidos is seeking a Business Process Analyst with strong systems, software, cloud, and Agile experience to support a complex program providing Agile development and operations and maintenance for critical systems on a mission-critical program supporting the Passenger Systems Program Directorate (PSPD) Interface and Support Processes division within Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

This position requires frequent interactions with Architects, agile delivery teams, CBP product owners, and other CBP stakeholders to lead the gathering, refinement, and documentation of business needs and requirements.

This position REQUIRES the candidate to be in Ashburn, VA, twice a week

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product owner, technical leads, and developers on requirement elicitation, documentation in JIRA epic/stories/features, and acceptance criteria in a fast-paced agile environment
• Work with product owners to refine, groom, and prioritize the backlog
• Work with development teams to flesh out technical and QA requirements
• Collaborate with the team on understanding requirements and properly developing and testing functionality using BDD and ATDD
• Quickly adapt to the customer's dynamic environment and adopt their processes, fostering innovative ideas
• Adopt new ways of working, socializing, and collaborating with stakeholders, and understanding their business goals
• Be a self-starter, strong leader, and have the ability to work independently with little supervision
• At times, take on duties of manual testing and/or Scrum Master, with a primary focus always on Business Process Analyst

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS with 8+ years of relevant experience or 6+ years of relevant experience with a Master's Degree: OR 7 years of experience in lieu of degree
• Experience working with AI/ML as an integral part of executing the software lifecycle and/or implementing AI/ML solutions to support mission
• Experience in Agile/Scrum/Kanban supporting Agile efforts
• At least five (5) years of experience writing user stories, slicing features, using test suites, and maintaining issue backlog
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with diverse agile teams, product owners, stakeholders, and SMEs
• Experience conducting stakeholder interviews and facilitating stakeholder workshops
• Experience with JIRA required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active CBP BI
• Experience with CBP PSPD
• Previous experience developing software applications in a DevOps environment utilizing one or more of the following technologies: Java, HTML5/JavaScript, Oracle, and web services or IBM MQ