Title: Senior Business Analyst

Location: 100% Remote

Terms: Full-Time/Permanent

Travel: None

Clearance: Qualified applicants must be able to pass a background check

Position Overview:

RIVA Solutions is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support our USDA program which is part of our web-modernization portfolio. This person will be both analytical and strategic. They will be expected to be "data driven" with the ability to consume and digest information making it highly visible to a variety of stakeholders. This is a high growth opportunity and the person in this position should expect to be challenged as preparation to move to the next level in their career.

Responsibilities:

• Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users.
• Works with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.Collaborates with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
• Clearly identifies project stakeholders and establishes customer classes, as well as their characteristics.
• Conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
• Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Researches, reviews, and analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develops strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
• Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience as Business Analyst providing a variety of federal program support duties
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
• Experience leading the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options, and communicating these back to the business stakeholders.BA/BS degree or equivalent years of experience
• Ability to provide broad program support to include communicating changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements - verbally or through written documentation - to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood
• Superior MS Office skills, particularly with Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working as part of PMO office
• Experience leading junior business analysts on Agile development teams
• Familiar with approach and methodologies related to customer and user experience for digital solutions.
• Hands on experience using Project Management tools such as JIRA and Confluence

About RIVA:

RIVA Solutions, Inc. is a rapidly growing provider of information Technology and Program Support Services to the United States Federal Government. Headquartered in McLean VA, RIVA has over 400 employees in 20+ states across the US. As we continue to expand our services within Management Consulting, STEM, Cyber AI and Robotic Process Automation, we are looking for highly qualified people to join and thrive with us. VivaLaRIVA!

RIVA Solutions, Inc. is an Affirmative and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit based factors.

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