Kollabio, a growing boutique consulting firm that provides Digital Transformation solutions and services to public and private sector organizations, is seeking a mid-level or senior Business Analyst / Product Owner to support the analysis, design and development of digital solutions for Federal agencies.
As a Business Analyst/Product Owner, you will shape and execute the product vision in collaboration with product managers, designers, engineers, and other stakeholders. Success requires a natural curiosity, ability to define and decompose problems, data-driven insights, and design thinking frameworks to rapidly define and launch minimally viable products and features. This is a mid-senior level position that provides ample opportunity to grow while coaching and mentoring other members of a growing team.
We’re looking for someone who is:
- A problem solver. You aren't afraid to go deep, experiment, learn on the fly, and do the work.
- Passionate about turning complex business requirements into working software that delights users.
- Humble but opinionated. You have lots of ideas, yet you are happy to shift directions when a better path emerges. You take your work much more seriously than you take yourself.
- An active collaborator. You want feedback on your work early and often, and you get a kick out of a collaborative process because it challenges you to do better work.
- Engaging beyond 1s and 0s. You understand that empathizing with our customers, building relationships with your co-workers, and going deep on the product makes you a better teammate and a better engineer.
- A professional who believes in the principles of the Reactive Manifesto and who is excited about the vision to develop high scalable cloud-native software
Responsibilities:
- Own the analysis, documentation, and validation of business and/or IT objectives.
- Own the product backlog of the team and facilitate refinement of backlog items to increase clarity and get the requirements closer to Definition of Ready.
- Work with Customer Product Owners, Product Managers and/or other stakeholders to capture business requirements and convert them into Epics, Features and Stories
- Work with software developers, technical architects, and support personnel to develop scope documents, design documents, storyboards, and process flow diagrams.
- Conduct discovery sessions, interviews, and workshops to explore business needs and elicit corresponding business requirements from the customers.
- Facilitate delivery of end-to-end user experience solutions focused on user needs and business goals.
- Collaborate with QA teams to ensure that software solutions meet the highest quality standards and align with business needs.
- Participate in continuous improvement processes that reduce cycle time and improve quality and impact of development efforts.
- Assist the Scrum Master/Product team to meet the objectives of each Sprint.
- Responsible for verifying and accepting user stories during each Sprint.
- Assist in defining, grooming, and accepting user stories in Jira (Atlassian)
- Other job-related duties as assigned.
Requirements
Required Skills amp; Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or equivalent work experience.
- 7+ years of recent experience working as Business Analyst/Product Owner on an Agile or Scrum team.
- 2+ years of experience with Agile ALM tools, such as Jira and Confluence.
- Experience as a Business Analyst or Product Owner on web-based portals, websites or intranet sites, or other digital/interactive engagements.
- Demonstrated ability to run Agile ceremonies and apply knowledge of user stories, product backlog refinement, automated testing, and continuous delivery.
- Experience modeling domain requirements and solution intent as Epics, Features and Stories.
- Experience with software QA practices including, conducting functional, integration, system, and regression testing.
- Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written) and ability to communicate with internal and external customers and all levels of management, including communicating technical information to non-technical audiences.
- A strong intellectual curiosity to continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving business and market.
- Agile certification such as, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SA) or SAFe Certified Product Owner (S-CPO).
Desired Skills amp;Qualifications:
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