Senior Functional Analyst (JIRA)

Location: 100% remote within the United States. Candidates from California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, or Washington will not be considered.

Salary: $78,167–$103,855 per year

Company

hirify.global provides technology and professional services supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs and federal government programs.

What you will do

• Lead the capture, analysis, documentation, validation, and change control of business, functional, technical, and non-technical requirements.
• Manage requirements, epics, sub-epics, user stories, testing, defects, and traceability in JIRA and other Application Lifecycle Management tools.
• Conduct user interviews, facilitate requirements and backlog refinement sessions, develop process models, and define acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate with product owners, business users, systems engineers, developers, customers, and contractors to assess solution impacts and resolve impediments.
• Track project risks, issues, metrics, dependencies, configuration items, and product backlogs throughout the Agile development lifecycle.
• Serve as a product functional subject matter expert and lead or mentor junior analysts.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required for this opportunity.
• Must possess or qualify for a Public Trust (MBI) security clearance and complete the required government investigation.
• Ten years of professional experience; a Master’s degree in Engineering or a related scientific or technical discipline is required, with an additional ten years of experience potentially substituting for education.
• Strong experience with software development, Agile and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodologies, and large Agile software development or data integration projects.
• Expertise with JIRA, advanced Microsoft Office and Excel skills, requirements analysis, independent research, communication, and problem-solving.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience in a federal health agency, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, Defense Health Agency, or Department of Health and Human Services.
• Working knowledge of the VA Veterans Independence Program, VA SQA testing, healthcare billing and claims processing applications.
• Certified Scrum Master or Professional Scrum Master certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work within the United States.
• Work supporting Veterans Affairs programs and federal government customers.
• Military veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Direct employment opportunity; recruiters and third parties will not be considered.