Job Summary
The IT Business Analyst and Scrum Master (Contractor) are responsible for gathering, understanding, and documenting stakeholder business needs to ensure that the ASCP IT Development Team has the information needed to build solutions. This person is responsible for gathering data and information from stakeholders, reviewing and providing feedback on work in progress, conducting stakeholder review and user acceptance testing, and writing functional and technical documentation. They are also responsible for facilitating the Scrum process, including managing stand-ups and tracking progress, participating in Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives, and tracking progress during sprints.
The IT Business Analyst and Scrum Master is accountable for ensuring that the solutions delivered by the Development Team meet the agreed-upon requirements, that user-acceptance processes have been followed, and that documentation has been developed to enable ongoing management of the solutions. They are also accountable for ensuring that the team follows Agile principles, removing obstacles, fostering collaboration, and resolving conflicts.
Special Characteristics
The IT Business Analyst and Scrum Master (Contractor) must have the technical and written/oral communication skills to ensure effective documentation of business requirements and system functionality and the ability to interface with both technical and non-technical staff. In addition, they must be skilled at questioning assumptions, eliciting detailed requirements, and identifying blind spots. They must demonstrate strong leadership, problem-solving, and time management skills to enable effective guidance of the team in following Agile methodology.
Essential Functions
- Working in an Agile environment and continuously reviewing the business needs, refining priorities, outlining milestones and deliverables, and identifying opportunities and risks
- Contributing to the facilitation and organization of the Agile development process to help enable the delivery of complex digital solutions and products
- Collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders to gain an in-depth understanding of and document critical business requirements
- Identifying and developing innovative solutions for operational and strategic changes
- Developing functional and technical documentation of existing and new workflows, applications, and processes
- Analyzing complex business problems and helping to determine effective IT solutions
- Defining objectives and scope of project solutions and implementation plans
- Participating in Sprint Review meetings and collecting stakeholder feedback
- Participating in daily Dev Team scrum calls
- Leading