Business Analyst Junior in Silver Spring, Maryland at General Dynamics Information Technology

Location: Any Location / Remote
Full Part/Time: Full time
Job Req: RQ220818
Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None

Public Trust/Other Required:
NACLC (T3)

Job Family:
Process and Operational Efficiency

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Agile Methodology, Business Requirements, User Story
Certifications:
None
Experience:
2 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No

Job Description:

At GDIT, people are our differentiators. Our work depends on a Junior Business Analyst joining our team to assist the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) in managing its appeals workloads.

As a Junior Business Analyst supporting the DevSecOps team that maintains a Medicare appeals/claims platform, you will help ensure that American citizens have access to important services. The Junior Business Analyst collaborates with the DevSecOps team, PMO, client Product Owner, and other stakeholders to ensure complete communication loops, that information in Jira tickets is current in nearly real-time, that documentation is updated at appropriate intervals, and that they participate in Agile ceremonies fully.

HOW THE JUNIOR BUSINESS ANALYST WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Support client stakeholders, contract leadership, the product owner, the Lead Business Analyst, and the DevSecOps team to gather and analyze business requirements, write user stories, manage and identify functional requirements, and participate in agile ceremonies.
• Understand the current "as-is" platform and its business processes and workflows.
• Approach user stories with curiosity, asking questions about how each user story or task fit into the larger picture to identify dependencies, related tasks, and hidden requirements.
• Identify potential risks and issues early in the project lifecycle and follow PMO processes to report them.
• Support improvements to improve the overall project and our ways of working, tightening up agile processes and improving the quality of client-facing reporting.
• Help define the scope of each release and support the creation of documentation to ensure repeatable processes across all areas of DevSecOps.
• Provide detailed documentation including user stores, use cases and functional specifications to serve as reference to developers.
• Define acceptance criteria and work with QA to verify the product meets the business requirements.
• Collaborate with the development and QA teams to continuously improve processes, fill in gaps in development or testing processes, and help support successful releases and patches.
• Verify and validate product features and requirements to ensure that they meet acceptance criteria.
• Define standards related to user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional requirements alongside the Scrum Master and enforce them.

WHAT YOU'LL NEEED TO SUCCEED:

• Experience with Agile methodologies and project management using tools including Jira.
• 2+ years' experience in business analysis and systems development.
• 1+ years with Agile methodologies and project management using tools including Jira.
• Working knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience with managing project requirements.
• Experience creating reports and supporting presentations to communicate sprint status, sprint planning status, and other development-related reports.
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex concepts and workflows to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Understanding of and ability to communicate diagrams and documentation to that represent complex architectural concepts.
• Understanding of data integrity, data privacy, and compliance.
• Business level understanding of low code application platforms, and best practices.

SECURITY CLEARANCE LEVEL:

• Ability to pass HHS and company background check to obtain a Public Trust Level 5 clearance.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 401K with company match.
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages.
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications.
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from.
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays.

The likely salary range for this position is $64,230 - $80,500. 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.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
None

Telecommuting Options:
Remote

Work Location:
Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
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.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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