Senior Agile Business Analyst

***WTSS CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY***

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports reputable organizations across multiple industries?

If so, we are looking for you. At WECTEC Staffing Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace. 

Opportunity Overview:

This role will work with the Technology Platform Managers, Product Managers, Agile Product Owners, Software Developers, Azure Architects & program stakeholders to evaluate business and technical requirements, challenges and pain points to identify needs, and support development of strategies to maximize digital opportunities

The Senior Staff Business Analyst’s (BA) primary role will be to work closely with Agile Product Owners, software developers, UI/UX designers, Azure architects, end users and SMEs to create functional and nonfunctional product backlog items and user stories for commercial-grade AI/ML and digital solutions in the nuclear industry.

What your day-to-day looks like:

• Responsible for collecting and documenting business, functional and technical requirements as user stories to be implemented by the cross-functional agile teams in support of digital product development, integration, enhancement or maintenance
• Provide support to the digital Agile Product Owners, Agile Team Leaders, and the Business Unit Product Managers to define business rules and data analytics that can assist in enhancing the digital portfolio strategy
• Guides the team to ensure a solid understanding of the ceremonies, expectations, deliverables, dependencies, and their role in the Agile development methodology
• Author’s user stories that are aligned with user objectives, software requirements & business outcomes
• Provides guidance and facilitates conversations as needed on sizing stories, choosing stories for sprints, splitting stories and determining technical story details
• Coordinates with the Product Owner on prioritizing and grooming the product backlog
• Provides coaching in the discipline for junior resources
• Effectively communicate relevant information to key stakeholders including software developers and architects and support strategic and business planning sessions as required through the business planning cycle

What we’d like to see from you:    

Education:

• B.S. degree  - Computer/Electrical/Mechanical/Nuclear Engineering, Computer Science preferred

Experience/Requirements:

• 5-7 years working on SDLC projects in one or more capacities
• Minimum of 7 years of experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Team Leader, Agile Business Analyst, and/or Agile Project Manager for a software development team that diligently applied Agile principles and practices
• Understanding of software development lifecycles and experience working on software development agile teams
• Experience interacting with cross-functional groups to support consensus outcome/decision
• Proven ability to play a key role in delivering iterative solutions that drive from ideation to full scale customer deployments
• Experience moderating team dynamics and leading through influence
• Certification of an agile framework or method (i.e. SAFE, DAD, Kanban) and Agile tools, including reporting
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques
• Experience in how to apply different techniques to optimize the team's effectiveness when developing in an agile framework (for example: various Burndown technologies, differing retrospective, sprint planning handling bugs, etc.)
• Experience with removing blockers for teams and acting as a champion for a cross-functional team or department

Our Safety Pledge to You:

If you are as committed to your success as we are committed to your safety, then this is the position for you! For us, our guiding principle has always been and will continue to be the safety of our people. It’s that simple!

Why WECTEC Staffing Services?

Through the ever changing and rapidly evolving contract labor market we continue to employ experienced, highly motivated, and qualified employees with proven track records to meet our clients’ needs. We have expanded our scope of services outside of the nuclear industry to include international contracts in more than five countries. Our dedicated employees range in expertise from highly specialized technical niche positions to corporate function positions and we want YOU to be a part of our impressive talent network!

Additionally, WECTEC Staffing Services offers competitive pay as well as benefits to qualifying positions. To learn more about us visit www.wectecstaffing.com

EOE of Minorities/Females/Vets/Disability