Senior Product Analyst with Security Clearance

Who we are:

Tria Federal delivers digital services and technology solutions that support the health and safety of veterans, service members and civilians. For two decades, federal agencies have relied on Tria companies to advance their critical missions and modernize their systems, so that they can uphold their commitment to the American people. Today, we are pushing the boundaries of possibility through partnerships and investments in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, developing solutions for the biggest challenges that government will face tomorrow.

We are proud to employ and support military veterans who bring mission-first mindset, technical expertise, and leadership qualities that strengthen our work. Veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses are strongly encouraged to apply. Job Discription:
We're seeking a Product Analyst with expertise in eliciting and documenting requirements as user stories and working with the development team to build the products. This role is part of a collaborative and agile team that supports and builds modern, usable, and responsive applications for mission-critical health IT solutions. The candidate will serve as the Product Analyst/Scrum Master for a development team responsible for executing risk adjustment model runs at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid.

The individual will facilitate Agile ceremonies within the Agile Release Train (SAFe) while coordinating the backlog and requirements, working alongside a Lead Business Analyst and Product Manager.

Minimum Qualifications
* Ability to successfully obtain a U.S. Federal Position of Trust clearance designation.  
* Must reside in and be able to perform work in the United States.  
* Must have lived in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years. 
* Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of relevant experience (e.g., product/business analyst and Scrum Master on federal or healthcare IT programs).
* Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
* Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) or CSM; SAFe certification (e.g., SAFe Scrum Master / SAFe Practitioner, SAFe POPM) strongly preferred.
* Demonstrated experience facilitating Agile ceremonies
* Hands-on proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and Test Rail for backlog management, traceability, and Agile artifacts.
* Experience translating requirements into an epic → feature → user story → subtask hierarchy with BDD/Gherkin acceptance criteria and working with the client to apply prioritization.
* Demonstrated ability to exercise creative and critical thinking to identify and evaluate alternatives toward arriving at decisions with stakeholders. 
* Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to document complex problems in a simple & intuitive manner that others can understand.  Preferred / Desired Qualifications
* CMS or Medicare Advantage / Part D risk adjustment domain knowledge; familiarity with encounter data.
* Experience supporting data-processing or model-execution teams (Python-based pipelines, data engineering) in a cloud (AWS) environment.
* Familiarity with federal software governance, change control, and Definitions of Ready/Done.

Key Responsibilities
* Facilitate all Agile ceremonies for the scrum team and remove impediments to sprint execution.
* Own and maintain the team backlog in Jira, coordinating with the Product Manager and Key Business Analyst to refine, prioritize, and ready user stories for iteration planning.
* Coordinate delivery of the 6–10 annual production run cycles, aligning sprint work to client-directed run schedules, dry runs, and readiness runs.
* Track dependencies, risks, and impediments including upstream/downstream data handoffs and escalate as needed.
* Ensure work items meet Definitions of Ready and Done, with BDD/Gherkin acceptance criteria and full traceability across Jira/Confluence/Test Rail.
* Support change control board governance, software development stage gates, and program increment boundary transitions by preparing required Agile artifacts.
* Provide sprint metrics, capacity/load reporting, and status to the Product Manager and CMS stakeholders; contribute…