BILLABLE LABOR CATEGORY: Technical Consultant Intermediate

CAREER LADDER TITLE: SME I, II

LOCATION: Remote with periodic on-site responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Aeyon is seeking motivated individuals who are passionate about helping clients achieve excellence. Qualified candidates will have a creative, holistic, and systematic approach to problem-solving.

The Business Analyst supports the Acquisition Visibility (AV) team within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment, Acquisition Enablers, and Enterprise Information. The Business Analyst supports capability development and requirements analysis for an enterprise reporting and analysis platform leveraged by users within the Department of Defense. As a business analyst, qualified candidates will work alongside a team of analysts to translate development priorities from legacy systems, stakeholder requests, policy changes, and emerging business needs into implementable tasks in the product backlog. Qualified candidates will be strong communicators who can bridge between stakeholders, subject-matter experts, systems engineers, and developers.

Position Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain up-to-date knowledge of the Adaptive Acquisition Framework, reporting requirements, and policies.

• Coordinate with the Functional Requirements Manager to define, and document requirements through collaboration with team members to remedy gaps and ensure functional needs align with DoD policy and standards, as well as client vision.

• Capture, manage, and maintain approved requirements as user stories and acceptance criteria within JIRA for capability development.

• Collaborate with systems engineers and Frontend Development Lead to generate wireframes and/or mockups to illustrate requirements to developers.

• Track the progress of story generation and grooming to ensure cross-functional teams provide input to prepare for development according to the schedule.

• Support planning for Scrum meetings to include Release Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and Sprint Planning.

• Support stakeholder engagements to include user testing and system demonstrations to elicit feedback from clients, stakeholders, and users.

• Provide inputs on decision briefings for the client on implementation options.

• Author user guides for new capabilities on an as-needed basis and supports the Help Desk team members in understanding how to use new capabilities.

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS:

Active SECRET clearance or an ability to obtain and hold a US DoD Secret Security Clearance

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s Degree required

Mandatory:

A minimum of 1-2 years of business analysis, specifically in an agile environment strongly preferred

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Self-starter, ability to work both with a team and independently and effectively prioritize workload to meet deadlines and work objectives.

• Excellent communication skills working with cross-functional teams in a collaborative and diverse environment.

• Excellent problem-solving and research skills.

• Experience with Atlassian, especially Jira and Confluence for collaborative requirements management, a plus.

The implementation and enforcement of Executive Order 14043 is currently suspended under an injunction pending further litigation. Once the litigation concludes, Candidates may be required to be vaccinated to be eligible for employment, except in limited circumstances where an employee is legally entitled to accommodation.

Individuals are considered fully vaccinated for COVID-19 two weeks after receiving the second dose in a two-dose series or two weeks after receiving a single-dose vaccine.

If you are entitled to accommodation, please advise your Aeyon liaison, and they will consult our Human Resources Department for consideration.