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Business Analyst

Leidos Washington, DC, DC Hybrid mid full-time

Salary

$73,450 - $132,775 per year

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Description

Join Leidos' Digital Sector as we establish a new Agile development team at the forefront of federal IT modernization.

As a Business Analyst, you will work directly with customers to capture business and user requirements and communicate them to the team.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Gather, analyze, and translate business requirements into clear functional and technical specifications.
  • Build datasets and visualizations to support reporting and analytics.
  • Perform data extraction, cleansing, transformation, and maintain metadata and data dictionaries.
  • Diagnose and resolve data issues, including performing manual data updates and extracts.
  • Manage and update user stories in Atlassian Jira.
  • Document current processes and partner with stakeholders to design improved future-state workflows.
  • Establish governance and lifecycle processes for key data domains.
  • Conduct focus groups and synthesize qualitative findings with survey data.
  • Mentor junior team members and support overall project delivery.
  • Execute engineering activities such as requirements analysis, planning, integration, testing, documentation, deployment, and system evaluation.
  • Ensure data accuracy and implement leadership-approved updates.
  • Partner with business and digital teams to align with strategic roadmaps and integrate data across systems.
  • Define and communicate data attributes, definitions, and acceptable values.
  • Build processes to monitor and remediate data health and communicate performance metrics.
  • Provide stakeholder training and participate in governance forums.
  • Work with developers to design integrations connecting master data to other systems.
  • Support solutions leveraging AWS and ServiceNow.
  • Work effectively in an agile, cross-functional environment.
  • Manage multiple priorities independently and ensure timely, accurate delivery.
  • Participate in user acceptance testing and recommend improvements.

Requirements:

  • An active TS/SCI clearance (required for consideration)
  • Willingness and ability to complete and maintain additional customer suitability screenings throughout employment
  • Current Security+ certification or higher/equivalent
  • Ability to work on-site in Washington, DC
  • Education and experience depending on job level:
  • Level III: Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4-8 years of relevant experience.
  • Level IV: Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 8-12 years of relevant experience (or a Master's and 6+ years).
  • Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
  • Knowledge of data and/or software architecture
  • Successful and demonstrated experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum)

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Exposure to ServiceNow applications like Telecommunication Management System (TSM), Telecommunications Network Inventory (TNI), Order Management Telecommunications (OMT) modules, etc.
  • Experience with JIRA, Git and Confluence.
  • Understanding of ITIL foundation or ITIL certified.
  • AWS cloud and ServiceNow certifications.
  • Experience working with large software systems including hardware integration and test.
  • Experience working with multi-disciplinary technical development teams.
  • Experience using SAFe as the agile development methodology.
  • Experience moving from a legacy application to a new application
  • Experience applying test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality by the team.
  • Experience using Kanban to improve flow on support teams.
  • Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps and CI/CD implementation.

What to Expect:

  • Early-stage flexibility with partial telework during initial development phases
  • Full-time on-site presence at secure facility in Washington, DC will be required as the program matures
  • A collaborative, Agile environment where your input shapes the architecture from day one
  • Dev platform based on ServiceNow, Elastic, AWS and RedHat

Pay Range: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Telecommunication Management System (TSM)
  • Telecommunications Network Inventory (TNI)
  • Order Management Telecommunications (OMT)
  • SAFe
  • Kanban
  • DevOps/DevSecOps
  • CI/CD implementation

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You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Washington-DC/Business-Analyst---Software-Development_R-00192380-1

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