Business Systems Analysis / SAFe Agile

Peraton is seeking a Business Analyst with SAFe Agile experience for a position within our Cyber Mission sector to become part of our Department of State (DoS) Diplomatic Security Cyber Mission (DSCM) program providing leading cyber and technology security experience to enable innovative, effective and secure business processes.

Location: Arlington, Virginia; on-site role.

In this role, you will:

• Communicate frequently with stakeholders to collect requirements, and document user stories in an Agile planning tool such as JIRA.
• Assess existing Epics, Features, and User Stories for completeness and alignment to organization Mission and Vision and decompose further as needed.
• Work closely with multiple Agile scrum teams, with the ability to navigate stakeholders through uncertain technical needs or approaches.
• Support organizational SAFe Agile implementation, with focus on fully capturing Epics, Features, and User Stories through iterative Agile process.
• Support PI Planning sessions.
• Brief senior leaders on the status and needs of Agile teams.
• Broaden coordination and dialogue with other federal teams and organizations to ensure optimal use of limited outreach resources.
• Ensure that customer products, services, and capabilities continuously improve to better meet current and future customer requirements.
• Assist in the creation and implementation of customer feedback mechanisms and implement improvements with operational products and services.
• Support the development of performance metrics and goals.
• Develop, track, and maintain metrics, as required.
• Conduct program assessment and analysis to streamline administrative processes and enhance team operations to improve program efficiency.
• Track and document team activities, accomplishments, and deliverables on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.
• Contribute to the development of workflow documentation (e.g., standard operating procedures, work instructions).
• Assist in the formulation and coordination of input to formal and informal taskers.
• Document new and/or unique support requirements and create plans to address them.
• Developing Talking Points.
• Support administrative tasks such as note taking.
• General administrative tasks.
• Development and maintenance of spreadsheets.

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Minimum Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s degree in a related field and minimum of 5 years’ related experience. An additional 4 years of related experience may be considered in lieu of the degree requirement. 
• Demonstrated SAFe Agile experience. 
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working with a Federal Customer.
• Have at least ONE of the following certifications:

  CAP, CASP+ CE, CCISO, CCNA-Security, CISM, CISSP (or Associate), CISSP (or Associate), CND, CSSLP, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, GSLC, Security+ CE, SSCP, PPDA, Agile IC, SNOW App Dev  

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Must have an active Secret clearance.

Preferred:

• Active DoS - Department of State – agency clearance.
• SAFe Agile certification.
• Experience with cybersecurity programs.