Business Analyst - ArchivesSpace

Aretum is seeking a qualified and motivated Business Analyst to join our team and work on the ArchivesSpace project. As a Business Analyst at Aretum, you will be responsible for gathering and analyzing business requirements, facilitating communication between stakeholders, and ensuring the successful implementation of the ArchivesSpace system.

Aretum is a leading government contracting company, specializing in providing innovative technology solutions to Federal clients. We are committed to delivering high-quality products and services that meet the unique needs of our clients and contribute to their success.

Responsibilities:

• Capture detailed business requirements, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria in JIRA
• Work with Product Owner/System Owner, Development, UX/UI, QA team, and Subject Matter Experts to ensure alignment and proper interpretation of complex functional requirements.
• Ensure end-to-end requirements traceability, mapping user stories to software test cases, applicable business processes, wireframes, and UX comps.
• Leverage strong written and verbal communication skills to drive requirements sessions in a large setting including Product Owners, Subject Matter Experts, Project Manager, Team Leads, and client personnel.
• Collaborate with team members, share knowledge, and continuously improve business analysis efforts, identify and close gaps.
• Document functional specifications, traceability matrices, process flow diagrams, wireframes, meeting agenda, meeting minutes, and other supporting artifacts.
• Conduct User Research sessions to gather requirements.
• Monitor sprint progress, facilitate discussions, decision-making processes, and conflict resolution. Communicate progress and team dynamics to stakeholders and higher management.
• Assist the Product Owner in managing the product backlog, ensuring it is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the team will work on next.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in documenting business and functional requirements
• 2+ years working in an Agile environment, with demonstrated ability to clearly articulate User Stories and Conditions of Satisfaction to development teams
• Experience with ArchivesSpace, or other open-source content and meta-data management system
• Experience with FOLIO, or other integrated library platform
• Experience defining requirements for data import, export and ETL processes
• Web-based software development experience involving complex workflows
• Demonstrated ability to elicit, create, and analyze functional and non-functional requirements
• Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs
• Experience presenting detailed summaries of progress and updates
• Ability to facilitate and drive group discussions to build a shared understanding of software requirements
• Ability to foster solid working relationships with senior-level management and subject matter experts within the team and client organization
• Experience working within teams that include remote team members
• Propensity to mentor staff on functional expertise and provide peer reviews of deliverables for other product lines
• Confident in requirement knowledge to help lead change and implement new strategies company-wide
• Ability to work independently and in an awesome team setting
• Experience with Jira and Confluence tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to pass a basic government background check (Public Trust)

Benefits

ARETUM is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified candidates will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to disability, race, color, religious creed, national origin, sexual orientation/gender identity, or age.

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