Senior Business Analyst

Description

Job Description:

The Civilian Health Solutions Operation is seeking a Sr. Business Analyst to support a large healthcare contract.

We are seeking a Sr. Business Analyst to help support CMS’s Enterprise Portal Services (EPS) program who will understand thoroughly business space and its underlying data, inputs and outputs. The successful Business Analyst should have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication and collaboration abilities, deep understanding of business processes and operations.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the scrum team to maximize the team's velocity

• Work with the customer and team to refine the priorities within the Product Backlog

• Capture meeting minutes and key decisions for distribution to the team and subsequent review with the customer

• Interface continually with the customer, project SMEs, and key stakeholders to gather and document business requirements in support of their vision

• Along with the Scrum Master organize requirements into epics and stories, generate Acceptance Criteria, and convey this information during Sprint Planning meetings, which you will lead

• Organize requirements into epics and stories, generate Acceptance Criteria.

• Trace customer requirements from inception through delivery

• Support user acceptance testing (UAT)

• Gather and analyze data to understand business problems and opportunities

• Identify and evaluate the potential risks and impacts of proposed solutions

• Provide ongoing support and maintenance for implemented solutions

• Collaborate with development team to triage and remediate production support issues

Required Skills:

• Familiarity with an Agile Methodology (like Scrum) and/or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

• Experience managing or leading a team.

• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and customers in order to translate their needs into technical requirements.

• Exceptional analytical, conceptual thinking, and documentation skills.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, and an ability to follow-up in a timely manner

• Experience creating detailed reports and presenting information to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Experience using JIRA and Confluence to manage requirements

Desired Skills:                                                                                                                

• Experience working in federal projects 

• A Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification or other agile-related certification

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree (or higher). Experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.

• 8-10 years of experience

All candidates supporting the CMS programs must have lived in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years prior in order to be considered.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 45,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2022.  For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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