General Dynamics IT
is hiring
Business Analyst
About Our Company
We are GDIT. The people supporting some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We deliver. Bringing the expertise needed to understand and advance critical missions. We transform. Shifting the ways clients invest in, integrate, and innovate technology solutions. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. We are there. On the ground, beside our clients, in the lab, and everywhere in between. Offering the technology transformations, strategy, and mission services needed to get the job done.
Job Description & Responsibilities
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is seeking a Business Analyst to join our team to support an essential modernization program for the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Federal Student Aid. As a member of our Agile team, you will support several complex and high-volume customer systems. The ideal candidate would have experience using SAFe Agile to capture requirements using Epics and Features.
Responsibilities:
- Experience in communicating and working with stakeholders to translate the business vision into actionable requirements
- Excellent requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation skills
- Ability to create business and technical process and data flow diagrams
- Ability to coordinate across business and technical resources to get needed information on a timely basis
- Ability to create clearly defined requirements as Epics and Features
- Ability to assist product owners in clarifying business requirements
- Experience coordinating and facilitating meetings with clear agendas and in keeping participants on-track
- Experience collecting Front End and Back End requirements
- Ability to present demonstrations of completed work to internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to create / maintain documentation related to the project, including use cases
- As a member of a scrum team, actively participates in daily scrum meeting to support requirements clarification and raise impediments impacting delivery
- Participates in Program Quarterly Incrementation Planning sessions to assess work and establish development goals
- Supports integration and customer acceptance testing to provide requirements troubleshooting support
Requirements
Required Skills/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and five years related experience
- Minimum of three years of experience capturing and writing requirements as Epics and Features
- Minimum of three years of business processes and business analysis experience in a system engineering or software application environment
- U.S. Citizen with existing or the ability to pass a Public Trust background investigation.
Desired Skills/Experience:
- Experience working in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or Agile/Iterative software development methodology including Scrum environment
- Excellent knowledge of best practices and an understanding of industry trends and difficulties
- Experience with U.S Department of Education, Federal Student Aid or administrating federal student aid.
- Excellent analytical skills, including the ability to integrate information from multiple sources
- Experience with Jira
- Experience with Confluence
- Ability to communicate complex technical topics to management and non-technical audiences
- Ability to work independently and interact regularly with government and non-government stakeholders at multiple levels of authority
- Ability to multi-task and work under pressure
- Interpersonal skills including courtesy, professionalism, and a cooperative attitude.
- Critical thinking, problem solving skills, written, and oral communication skills.
- Personal accountability, organized, self-motivated, and demonstrates initiative.
What we offer
The likely salary range for this position is $60,549 - $101,109. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
