Product Owner / IT Business Analyst

TekSynap
Silver Spring MD
9 days ago
TekSynap
TekSynap
teksynap.com

Job Description

Responsibilities & Qualifications:
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Maintain the team backlog and work with stakeholders and other members of the organization. The Product Owner has the primary responsibility for building, editing, and maintaining the team backlog.
  • Review and prioritize the backlog as part of the preparation work for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other Product Owners. The Product Owner is the primary source for story detail and priorities and has the responsibility of accepting the final iteration plan.
  • Accepting stories – The PO is the only team member who can accept stories as done. This includes validation that the story meets acceptance criteria and has the appropriate, persistent acceptance tests, and that it otherwise complies its Definition of Done (DoD).
  • Understand enabler work – While POs are not expected to drive technological decisions, they are supposed to understand the scope of the upcoming enabler work and to collaborate with System and Solution Architect/Engineering to assist with decision making and sequencing of the critical technological infrastructures that will host the new business functionality. This can often be best accomplished by establishing a capacity allocation, as described in the team backlog article.
  • Participate in team demo and retrospective – As the person responsible for requirements, POs have an essential role in the team demo, reviewing and accepting stories. They also participate in the Iteration Retrospective, where the teams gather to improve their processes.
  • Elicit business requirements from project sponsors through a variety of means including formal interviews, capturing user stories, reviewing previous project documentation, etc.
  • Document requirements, generate requirements traceability matrix, create use cases, and develop functional design documentation.
  • Communicate written and verbal programmatic requirements with stakeholders.
  • Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business IT systems and user needs.
  • Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies.
  • Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify features within an application.
  • Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
  • Performs a variety of complicated tasks.
  • May lead and direct the work of others.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • 4 to 6 years’ experience
  • BS/BA in appropriate field (or equivalent)
  • Active Public Trust or the ability to obtain a Public Trust.


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor’s degree in an Information Technology discipline preferred
  • Experience working in an Agile environment
  • Experience serving in the Agile Product Owner role
  • Experience working with Financial / Business Data
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner preferred
Overview:

We are seeking a Product Owner / IT Business Analyst to join our team supporting the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Office of Habitat Conservation (OHC) in Silver Spring, MD.


This contract provides Information Technology (IT) Operations & Maintenance Requirements support to NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Office of Habitat Conservation (OHC). OHC is moving forward with a multi-year reorganization and consolidation of business tools, enterprise data, and business intelligence with the goal of supporting complex and growing program needs. The Product Owner / IT Business Analyst will be responsible for gathering requirements from NOAA stakeholders and creating User Stories to put in the Product Backlog. The Product Owner / IT Business Analyst will work with Microsoft Power Platform Developers in delivering a Microsoft Power Platform application.


TekSynap is a fast growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. “Technology moving at the speed of thought” embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.


We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.

Visit us at www.TekSynap.com.

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Additional Job Information:
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle, feel, touch; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is regularly required to lift up to 10 pounds. The employee is frequently required to lift up to 25 pounds; and up to 50 pounds. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT
  • Location: Silver Spring, MD (Telework)
  • Type of environment: Varies
  • Noise level: Medium
  • Work schedule: Schedule is day shift Monday – Friday. May be requested to work evenings and weekends to meet program and contract needs.
  • Amount of Travel: 20%
WAGE INFORMATION
Target salary range: $104,000-$122,000 yearly. The salary range displayed is an estimate and will be determined on several factors regarding the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies and experience, as well as contract parameters and organizational requirements. The displayed salary is one component of the total compensation package for employees.

WORK AUTHORIZATION/SECURITY CLEARANCE
Citizenship: US Citizen
Clearance requirement: Public Trust

OTHER DUTIES
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. TekSynap does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, national origin, disability, age, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as “protected status”). This nondiscrimination policy extends to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment as well as the use of all company facilities, participation in all company-sponsored activities, and all employment actions such as promotions, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.

TekSynap is committed to ensuring that our online application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. If you believe you

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