Hybrid - Product Analyst

Hybrid in Vienna, VA - 2 days/week onsite required

Responsibilities

To compile, research, analyze, and document data, requirements, workflow / processes, and functionality. To develop and evaluate information and prepare recommendations.

To partner leadership, scrum master, POs in the creation, management, and maintenance of product boards and product backlogs.

Clearly presents status and issues in variety of oral and written formats and leads product meetings.

Authors wide variety of user stories/features/product backlog items; provides critical feedback to other stories/features/backlog items.

Liaises between the team and other business systems areas.

Conducts requirements analysis and validation for Mortgage processes, ensuring requirements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.

Solves business problems by defining systems solutions via interviewing stakeholders, identifying, and evaluating alternatives, and presenting findings.

Manages medium-large projects/product lines either solo or as part of a team of Analysts.

Recognizes and proactively raises issues or risks along with well-considered solutions.

Elicits and documents functional and non-functional requirements using variety of techniques, including interviews, document analysis, storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and diagramming.

Represents requirements using alternative views, such as epics/features/stories/product backlog items, models, diagrams, prototypes, or scenarios, to facilitate communication to the project / product team.

Tracks and manages requirements status and changes throughout project / product lifecycle via board/backlog management and maintenance.

Creates and communicates artifacts translating business needs into executable requirements.

Continually seeks opportunities to improve and increase level of industry/domain-specific knowledge by remaining current with emerging products and technical updates.

Presents project, product, or other material at various meetings.

Qualifications

Bachelor s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field, or the equivalent combination of training, education, and experience.

Manage multiple priorities independently and/or in a team environment to achieve goals via effective organizational, planning, and time management skills

Possesses/maintains solid skills with data querying, reporting, and analysis, comfortable recommending solutions to problems

Proficient understanding/ knowledge and work experience with Azure DevOps Boards

Demonstrates and applies knowledge in Information Technology solution creation and delivery to assigned project/product.

Proficient Product Management work experience

Experienced in applying Agile principles and Agile Methodology

Experienced in monitoring and maintain multiple Azure DevOps boards/projects

Demonstrates competence in planning, organization, and multi-tasking.

Desired

Certifications in MS Azure Cloud Fundamentals, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Certified Scrum Master (CSM)