SAFe Business Analyst

NO 3rd PARTY CANDIDATES! W2 Only The Business Analyst plays a dynamic role responsible for supporting project and product delivery teams with direct reporting to the Manager, IT Business Analysis. The Business Analyst performs various functions based on both user needs and a good understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements. The Business Analyst serves as a team member for the documentation of requirements which can take the form of epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria for prioritized system and feature development. The Business Analyst is a collaborative team player with a growth mindset and an interest in devising or modifying procedures to solve the complex business systems and industry requirements of our business, users, and customers to help build the digital utility of the future. Responsibilities • Interacts and effectively communicates with internal clients to understand fand maintain functional requirements that potentially lead to Epics, Features and User Stories &acceptance criteria. • Organizes and facilitates meetings with Business, Design, Dev Team, and other groups as needed. • Develops, refines, and documents requirements in the form of epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria for prioritized feature development including updates to ADO. • Supports the team with current and potential system inputs, processes, and outputs including interface mapping and documentation of business processes – “As Is / To Be” State. • Consults on functional testing of system modifications. • Ensures traceability on project work including capturing requirements; tracking test cases linked to requirements; and may support capturing defects and linking to root cause as part of User Acceptance Testing (UAT). • Supports testing activities prior to release, assuring we built what aligns to agreed features and capabilities. • Assists with training documentation and supporting product details for the business. • Collaborates with the Design Team in the Discovery Phase of Agile Playbook related to user requirement activities. • Participates in the development and implementation of programs intended to strengthen internal controls or improve client service and/or support. • Provide RFP support in terms of gathering high level requirements, mapping flows, and providing demos. • Assist with and support business case development including business analyses or feasibility studies associated with technology initiatives. • All other duties and projects as assigned. • We are looking for a highly experienced Business Analyst/Product Analyst for the Gas Operations Team, part of the Gas Innovation value stream & Agile Release Train (ART). We are looking for someone who has experience in Azure DevOps (ADO), is high energy, self-motivated, and ready to dive in quickly. Azure Dev Ops (ADO) experience maintaining and supporting backlogs is a must, Utility industry SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems experience highly preferred. SAFe experience preferred. This person will be working on the Gas Operations team and be collaborating with the business, product manager/owner, and hardware &software tech teams.