Business Analyst Job at ECS Limited in King George

ECS is seeking a Business Analyst to work in our Dahlgren, VA office.

ECS has an opportunity for a Business Analyst to support a cybersecurity program for a DOD Client.

This position is located in Dahlgren, VA.

The Business Analyst will be part of a team of experts charged with providing support in the areas of cyber analysis and cyber development capabilities in response to Navy's and DoD's needs for Cyber Situational Awareness (SA), Cyber Command and Control (C2), Mission Assurance, and Homeland Defense. Program scope includes identifying cyber key terrain by analyzing operational requirements, conducting cyber analyses and assessments, and developing and performing modeling and simulation in support of different cyber threat scenarios. Additionally, program support includes developing methodology and framework in support of cyber risk assessment life cycle. Our team will provide capabilities to support the customer with rapid design, development, test, deployment, maintenance and operation of specific software and hardware capabilities to meet current Cyber Defensive needs. As a Scrum Master on this program, you will be tasked with implementing new features within a critical, line of business application that support mission assurance and operational management functions.

The Role

As a Business Analyst you will perform and attend scrum ceremonies as part of an agile development effort including work item refinement, stand-up, sprint planning, PI planning, and Business Analyst and Product Owner (PO) syncs. Although expected to perform multiple roles within the agile cross-functional team, the Business Analyst will play a lead role in requirement analysis and algorithm evaluation. Duties related to requirement analysis include acquiring domain knowledge about the program and legacy system to enforce consistency on implementation strategy and solutions, facilitating conversations with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), identify business needs and requirements to the development team through user story creation, complete wireframes to illustrate overarching functionality, maintains close communication with the PO to ensure acceptance criteria of objectives are met and priorities in the backlog are in line to the product roadmap, create valid dependency strategies at a user story level to meet stakeholder requirements defined by the PO, coordinate with the developers on the necessary enablers needed to support a user story during refinement sessions, and hold responsibility with the PO and Tester to ensure products are working as intended and follow specific, actionable, and measurable business rules defined by the PO. Duties related to algorithm evaluation will include analysis of business logic defined by end-users, existing legacy system documentation, and existing legacy software.

• US citizenship required per contract.
• Active Top Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred)
• Bachelor's Degree in IT or related business field
• 5+ years of experience
• Strong understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Strong understanding of DevOps and software/application development processes
• Experience with software engineering activities (analysis, requirements, design, code, test)
• Experience with collaborative tools such as GitLab, Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Experience with development and security operations (DevSecOps) including Docker containerized microservices, RedHat OpenShift platform, and Jenkins Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.
• Ability to understand and solve technical problems.
• Ability to work as a member of a self-organizing team without daily direct supervision.
• Ability to communicate effectively within a large, dynamic team environment.
• Ability to work directly with a variety of program stakeholders including sponsors, end-users, and contractors.
• Willingness to try new things and grow.
• Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised.