SYSCOM, Inc. provides specialized information technology resources that possess the requisite skills and capabilities to deliver enterprise level solutions that help our client’s achieve their objectives.  At SYSCOM, we have a proven process that brings the best and brightest resources into our organization. Our teammates have excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as coordination and organization skills.  The objective of our approach is to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction. SYSCOM’s client is seeking an IT Business Analyst (Agile) for a long term position for an exciting, remote-based position.

Work Location: The position is primarily remote; however, the candidate may be required to attend onsite meetings at the client’s offices in Baton Rouge, LA - approximately once per quarter.

Job duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:

• Using Agile methods to analyze and document business functions and requirements.
• Consult with management and personnel to identify, define and document business functions, needs and objectives, operational procedures, problems, input and output requirements.
• Analyze the integration of business functions with technology.
• Perform and/or facilitate business and technical analysis in support of project design and implementation for a team of application programmers.
• Identify and document relevant business processes contained in legacy application data systems.
• Build out and support the management and prioritization of the product backlog. Create user stories based on requirements and capture technical requirements as needed.
• Participates in all necessary team meetings and design sessions in accordance with Scrum ceremonies.

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are mandatory:

• Three (3) years of experience in Business Analysis including eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business functions, processes, and requirements.
• Two (2) years of experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.), writing user stories, and maintaining a healthy product backlog.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience creating requirements documentation for complex projects.
• Experience prioritizing user stories.
• Experience identifying and documenting business processes contained in legacy application data systems.
• Experience in quality assurance testing of application software.
• Experience in creating operating procedures, user guides, and/or training material.
• Experience with wireframe/mockup applications such as Figma to foster initial design for Webapps.
• Candidate must reside within the Continental United States and be able to travel to Baton Rouge, LA for onsite meetings as needed - approximately once per quarter.
   

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are desirable but not mandatory:

• Experience setting up IT projects for a team of application programmers.
• Business Analysis certifications such as PMI-PBA or CBAP.

Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, SYSCOM, Inc. is a US-based company whose mission is to create and deliver the right technology solutions, by teaming with our customers to understand their business needs and empower them to achieve their goals.  Since 1982, SYSCOM, Inc. has been providing enterprise-wide solutions for a variety of private and public sector clients.
 

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