Senior Scrum Master​/Requirements Analyst

Seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Scrum Master who can provide extended support as a business process/requirements analyst on a software development team that designs, develops, and maintains complex web-based applications in support of our Federal client. The successful candidate will have experience with various Scrum ceremonies and can perform them as needed.

• Conducts and facilitates all Scrum ceremonies - daily stand-up, sprint planning, release planning, grooming sessions, sprint retrospectives, and sprint reviews.
• Works with the client to create, review, and adjudicate Program Increment planning.
• Work with the Scrum team to execute all objectives and epics in the Program Increment.
• Developing detailed documentation of client needs
• Leads and facilitates grooming sessions with clients to gather, analyze, and decompose both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Work with Agile software development tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence) to manage backlogs, sprints, and collaborative work.
• Creating detailed user stories, including acceptance criteria, mockups (if required), and any additional information to assist development.
• When scope changes occur mid-sprint or during a release cycle, works with Project Managers on adjustments and messages to the clients.
• Interacts with Integrated Customer/Vendor Teams.
• Develops and delivers business processes for requirements.
• Performs requirements analysis to determine feasibility and to decompose requirements to concise and testable user stories.
• Develops and adheres to the Definition-of-Ready and Definition-of-Done established by the scrum team.
• Create clear, detailed business requirement documents (BRDs), functional specifications, and use cases, as needed.
• Develop and maintain requirement traceability matrices to ensure all requirements are met.
• Work with stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business requirements.
• Conduct interviews, workshops, and surveys to understand business needs.
• Analyze business processes using techniques such as BPM, use case modeling, current-state analysis, gap analysis, benchmarking, and best-practice identification.
• Interface with all areas of the project, including customer, architects, development team, operations, and other teams.
• Provide expertise and guidance in interpreting policies, regulations, and guidelines to ensure compliance.
• Conduct client interviews and coordinate with business and technology teams to define and document system requirements, including program functions, output requirements, input data acquisition, and system controls.
• Perform cost-benefit analysis when needed.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field of study is required with a minimum of 5 years of experience (or masters equivalent).

• Proven experience as a Scrum Master, Business Analyst, Requirements Analyst, or in a similar role, facilitating meetings with stakeholders to develop business and technical requirements.
• Experience in leading and facilitating all Scrum ceremonies.
• Experience with SAFe and Program Increment planning and execution.
• Strong time management to ensure ceremonies are done efficiently and within the time box.
• Must be resourceful in removing scrum team roadblocks.
• Servant leadership mentality to drive discussion and input from all members of the scrum team.
• Experience defining software requirements for complex products using the Agile software delivery methodology.
• Ability to understand complex technical concepts and present them in simple terms to non-technical team members and clients.
• Candidate must be willing to work collaboratively in a team environment and manage multiple assignments. Must actively support, enforce, and contribute to the Agile practices adopted by the development team.
• Must have experience with enterprise web applications for the Federal government.
• Experience with 508 compliance.
• Experience in working on software development projects and understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
• Proficiency in requirement elicitation techniques and tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence).
• Experience with process modeling tools (e.g., Visio, Lucidchart)…