Business Analyst

The Opportunity

CACI is currently looking for a Business Analyst with agile methodology experience to join our BEAGLE (Border Enforcement Applications for Government Leading-Edge Information Technology) Agile Solution Factory (ASF) Team supporting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) client located in Williston, Vermont! Join this passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

As a member of the BEAGLE ASF Team, you will support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity. CBP agents and officers are on the front lines, every day, protecting our national security by combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity.

ASF programs thrive in a culture of innovation and are constantly seeking individuals who can bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels. The ability to be adaptable and to work constructively with a technically diverse and geographically separated team is crucial. You should have worked with or have a strong interest in agile software development practices and delivering deployable software in short sprints.

• An understanding of real-world mission/business objectives and a working grasp of software development practices and technologies.
• Serve as the focal point for the capture, analysis, and management of functional and non-functional systems requirements, and user stories.
• Show a demonstrated skill in effective decomposition of mission/business objectives into requirements contained within a product backlog which can then be implemented in a series of short and iterative development cycles.
• Review high-level requirements provided by the Product Owner and decompose into user stories.
• Meet regularly with the Product Owner to review and prioritize the product backlog.
• Clearly communicate business needs to a development team through user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Provide guidance and clarification of user stories to the development team as a proxy Product Owner.
• Work closely with the Scrum Master to establish Release/Sprint backlogs, resolve impediments, and provide direction on scope of work to be accomplished.
• Work collaboratively with the Product Owner and external stakeholders, as well as the product development team during the development cycle to ensure the customer needs are being met.
• Develop product roadmaps and participate in Integrated Release Planning
• Review and evaluate work done by development team to ensure proper scope has been met.
• Identify use cases that are candidates for automated regression tests.
• Lead the demonstrations to the Product Owner and stakeholders.
• The ability to be adaptable and to work constructively with a technically diverse team is also crucial. A willingness to learn and stay abreast of industry trends is also required. The program emphasizes innovation and looks for individuals who can bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural.
• Ability to translate business requirements into user stories, use cases and technical requirements.
• Experience with functional decomposition of large business needs into multiple layers of requirements/user stories.
• Creating a product backlog that provides business value to the customer.
• Strong skills with MS Office tools (Excel, Word, Project, Visio) and Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence)
• Experience conducting backlog refinement sessions with stakeholders and the Product Owner to gather and validate business requirements.
• Experience with coaching a development team to understand the business value and mission of the supported product.
• Experience in Agile Scrum methodologies and estimating techniques.
• Experience analyzing data and data relationships across an organization’s business areas.
• Working knowledge of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, CM, quality assurance, and release…