Business Analyst

Come join a company that strives for Extraordinary People and Exceptional Performance! Chenega Services & Federal Solutions, LLC, a Chenega Professional Services’ company, is looking for a Business Analyst to join our team supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Our company offers employees the opportunity to join a team where there is a robust employee benefits program, management engagement, quality leadership, an atmosphere of teamwork, recognition for performance, and promotion opportunities. We actively strive to channel our highly engaged employee’s knowledge, critical thinking, innovative solutions for our clients.

In this position, you'll support public health analytic initiatives for a government health agency within an Agile delivery framework. Serve as the bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, translating business needs into well-structured, testable requirements while ensuring alignment with Agile principles and practices. Formulate and define systems scope and objectives through research, fact-finding, and a comprehension of applicable business systems and industry requirements. Conduct qualitative analysis of existing implementations and provide thoughtful, strategic improvement recommendations. Identify gaps in processes and opportunities for improvement and automation.  

Key Responsibilities: 

• →Translate business needs into clear testable technical requirements
• →Lead Agile-based requirements and backlog management activities
• →Analyze business processes and identify improvement opportunities
• →Support User Acceptance Testing and cross-team alignment

•  3+ years of experience working directly with business system users to elicit and document complete, accurate, and testable requirements, including capturing solid acceptance criteria from the Product Owner (PO) 
• Experience working within an Agile delivery framework, with a strong understanding of Agile principles, ceremonies, and artifacts 
• Experience using Jira for requirements documentation, backlog management, and logging defects, including creating, deleting, and updating stories following PO approval 
• Ability to conduct requirements gathering sessions with client stakeholders using interviews, document analysis, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, and workflow analysis, and to actively listen to stakeholder needs and document all requests 
• Ability to document business, functional, and non-functional requirements and system touchpoints, including reporting, dashboard, and workflow requirements, and to translate requirements into technical specifications 
• Ability to help the business break requirements down into small, valuable stories with clear user acceptance criteria and business rules, and to ensure stories, test cases, and business rules are clear and understood by developers during the iteration 
• Ability to understand and document business processes and develop as-is and to-be process flow diagrams, and to organize requirement artifacts into an accessible centralized repository 
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements 
• Bachelor's degree 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience writing user stories for health data and analytic systems 
• Experience serving as Scrum Master 
• Knowledge of data structures, relational databases, data lineage, and data governance principles 
• Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by providing the UAT plan and scripts, facilitating UAT sessions, providing results, obtaining Product Owner signatures, and validating solutions during production deployment 
• Professional certification such as Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), PMI-PBA, or a recognized Agile certification   

Final salary determination based on skill-set, qualifications, and approved funding.

Many of our jobs come with great benefits – Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location, and may include the following:

            PTO / Vacation – 5.67 hours accrued per pay period / 136 hours accrued annually 

            Paid Holidays - 11

            California residents receive an additional 24 hours of sick leave a year

            Medical

            Dental

            Vision

            Prescription

            Employee Assistance Program

            Short- & Long-Term Disability

            Life and AD&D Insurance

            Flexible Spending Account

            Health Savings Account

            Health Reimbursement Account

            Dependent Care Spending Account

            Commuter Benefits

            401k / 401a