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, combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated activity.

ASF programs thrive in a culture of innovation and constantly seek individuals who can bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural. 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.

• A strong understanding of real‑world mission/business objectives and a working grasp of software development practices and technologies.
• Serve as the focal point for capture, analysis, and management of functional and non‑functional systems requirements, and user stories.
• Demonstrate skill in decomposing mission/business objectives into requirements within a product backlog for short, iterative development cycles.
• Review high‑level requirements from the Product Owner and decompose them 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 define scope of work.
• Collaborate with stakeholders during the development cycle to ensure customer needs are met.
• Develop product roadmaps and participate in Integrated Release Planning.
• Review and evaluate work done by the development team to ensure proper scope has been met.
• Identify use cases that are candidates for automated regression tests.
• Lead demonstrations to the Product Owner and stakeholders.
• 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.
• Create 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).
• Conduct backlog refinement sessions with stakeholders and the Product Owner to gather and validate business requirements.
• Coach a development team to understand the business value and mission of the supported product.
• Apply Agile Scrum methodologies and estimating techniques.
• Analyze data and data relationships across organizational business areas.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of all elements of the software development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, configuration management, quality assurance, and release management.
• Develop business processes, capability needs, and business requirements.

Required:

• U.S. Citizen capable of passing CBP background investigation (3 year check for felony convictions, 1 year check for illegal drug use, 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud).
• College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Management Systems, or related discipline; or equivalent professional experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Minimum (7) years of experience as a business analyst on iterative software development projects.
• Available to work a hybrid schedule in Williston, VT.

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