# Senior Functional Analyst- VHA Finance **Company:** [Clearwaters.IT](https://jobs.workable.com/companies/kFJUTT9RVwVB9HhDjjc5BJ.md) **Location:** Remote **Workplace:** remote [Apply for this job](https://jobs.workable.com/view/f704d868-9c43-4b72-bd0b-c38c09d6969f) ## Description **Clearwaters.IT** is seeking a highly motivated and self-directed professional to fill an opening for a Senior Functional Analyst role that will be responsible for leading the capturing of business requirements for software development teams. This role involves close collaboration with **business users, IT teams, and leadership** to elaborate and document requirements, and manage requirements in an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool. The ideal candidate has a strong background in **software development, and Agile / SAFe methodologies.**  This position is 100% remote. Candidate **MUST** reside within the United States to be considered. **Job Responsibilities:** - Perform Agile requirements' management activities for a product team; perform the analysis of user needs to determine functional, cross-functional, and technical requirements  - Conduct user interviews, leading and facilitating sessions, and developing business process models and formal specifications  - Work with customers, team members, stakeholder users, and other contractors to gather, and document business, functional, technical & non-technical requirements  - Perform elaboration of user stories and decomposition of stories into backlog items and determine acceptance criteria  - Use an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool (JIRA) for Requirements Management, Testing, and Defect Management) to create and manage requirements, Epics, Sub-epics, and User Stories.   - Collection, tracking and monitoring of system and business requirements  - Validate requirements and integration   - Conduct backlog refinement sessions  - Coordinate with Systems Engineers to assess impact on technical solutions  - Manage and coordinate requirements for various projects  - Writing and client delivery of project documents  - Identify and manage risks and issues impacting the progress and outcome of the project  - Develop and maintain scheduled project/product backlog(s)  - Own and manage requirements change control  - Develop Change Requests per established policies and procedures  - Facilitate accurate configuration management for project related artifacts  - Identify, document, verify and track traceability amongst requirements, test cases and potential risks and impediments  - Responsible for collecting, analyzing, managing and reporting key Program and Product Team execution status and metrics across all aspects of the Agile product development lifecycle using SAFe.  - Perform analysis to identify required tasks and their interrelationships to establish well documented stories  - Become a product functional SME.  - Lead and mentor junior analysts in accordance with strategy and direction established by the Team Lead  - Establish strong relationships with product and business owners  - Support development team as needed to help everyone understand the requirements’ details.  - Follow agile methodology (Scrum) and deliver requirements/specifications for Sprint teams  - Remove impediments from team members to achieve successful completion of Sprints  - Provide clear qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders  - Support change control processes established to monitor and control project scope ## Requirements - **Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident** - **Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance** - Solid oral and written communication skills, with the demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics to the customer, management and non-technical audiences  - Attention to detail and excellent customer service  - Highly motivated and analytical; proven problem-solving abilities  - Ability to take initiative  - Ability and enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced environment  - Willingness and enthusiasm to learn new skills, new client environments, and grow domain expertise  - Ability to learn quickly  - Excellent attention to detail  - Ability to conduct independent research to lead or support the resolution of complex questions and issues  - Advanced use of MS Office Suite including strong Excel skills  - Excellent analytical skills, the ability to integrate information from multiple sources to execute effectively and efficiently in a dynamic environment  - Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting​​​  - **Experience working at the US Department of Veterans Affairs**   - Experience working in an Agile environment is preferred  - Expertise with Jira tools  - Working knowledge of VA’s VIP agile process is highly desired  - VA SQA Testing experience highly desired  - Experience in large, agile software development or data integration projects  - **Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) is a plus**  - Must have experience working with customers, users and project leads in analyzing, designing, implementing and supporting a wide variety of IT business systems covering many diverse applications such as healthcare and financial systems.  - Fully understands the process to elicit customer / end user requirements in software application lifecycle environment  - Strong experience in requirements elaboration and acceptance criteria development  - Experience working in a SAFe Agile environment  - Experience working for a Federal Health Agency (VA, DHA, HHS, etc.) **strongly preferred**  - Healthcare billing and claims processing application knowledge is **strongly preferred**  **Required Education and Experience:** - Master’s degree in engineering, or related scientific or technical discipline and ten (10) years of experience  - 10 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education ## Benefits - Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental, Vision) - Retirement Plan (401K, IRA) - Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) - Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays