Program & Portfolio Management - Analyst, Business

Ampcus Incorporated

Reston, VA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Acceptance Testing, Agile Programming Methodologies, Analysis Skills, Atlassian JIRA, Backlog Prioritization, Business Analysis, Business Processes, Business Services, Consulting, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Improvement, Delivery Driving, DevOps, Documentation, Establish Priorities, Health Insurance, Help Desk, Identify Issues, Investment Management, Kanban, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Azure, Portfolio Analysis, Project Tracking, Quality Assurance, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Project Management and Software Development, ScrumMaster, Status Reports, System Test, Systems Analysis, Time Management
LOCATION
Reston, VA
POSTED
3 days ago

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Job Title:Program & Portfolio Management - Analyst, Business

Location(s): Reston, VA

Duration: 12 Months – Temp to perm

Job Summary:

The Agile Senior Business Analyst serves as a key liaison between business stakeholders and Agile delivery teams, ensuring that evolving business needs are continuously understood, prioritized, and translated into actionable user stories and product features. This role is responsible for facilitating Agile ceremonies, refining backlogs, and driving iterative delivery of value through close collaboration with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, and QA teams. The incumbent ensures that business objectives are met by enabling adaptive planning, early delivery, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Interprets business needs and issues by gathering, eliciting, creating, analyzing, documenting, and validating the Business area’s user and/or technical (functional/non-functional) requirements.
  • Responsible for the overall success of user acceptance testing, including documentation, verification, and release.
  • Support end users with training and release communications.
  • Identifies, documents, and troubleshoots problems utilizing acquired experience and knowledge of the relationships in systems, software, and processes.
  • Maintain clear and concise documentation of business processes, workflows, and system interactions using Agile-friendly formats.
  • Monitors and reports project status to identify and mitigate risks and to ensure quality and timely deliverables.
  • Research and respond to policy-related inquiries impacting Agile delivery or system behavior.

Required Qualifications:

  • 5 years progressive experience in business analysis, systems analysis, testing or other analytical experience.
  • Health insurance experience.
  • Experience with interacting with large scrum teams.
  • Agile experience.
  • Hands-on experience with creating 10-15 user stories per week in JIRA.
  • In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Proven ability to deliver high-quality Agile artifacts and contribute to cost-effective, value-driven solutions.
  • Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and business analysis core competencies.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office and Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps).
  • Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with shifting priorities and multiple concurrent initiatives.
     

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.

About the Company

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Ampcus Incorporated

Ampcus Inc is a global technology and business consulting firm specializing in Digital Transforrmation, Big Data, Analytics, Cyber Security, Testing, IV&V, Infrastructure Management and Enterprise Solutions. Ampcus Inc is an SBA 8(a) certified Women and Minority Owned global Provider of broad range of consulting Services. From strategy to execution, our disciplined yet flexible approach starts and ends with our clients. By listening hard and working harder, their goals become our goals. We are an ISO 9000, ISO 20000, ISO 27000 and CMMi Level certified company.

Ampcus consultants have significant business, engineering and technology experience. Our consultants have over 20 years of business experience and an average of over 10 years of engineering and technology experience. This means that the project teams understand how systems work and how the technology impacts the business processes of organizations.

We believe that success of an engagement is determined by strong project management, clear communication and mutual commitment working collaboratively. Our methodology begins by listening to the customer needs, then working with their teams to gain a clear understanding of the requirements, while providing a knowledge transfer of best practices for the organization. As a recognized leader providing customized software services, management and engineering solutions to companies around the world, our ability to deliver is a "granted"​ that makes companies put their trust in us to answer their day-to-day business challenges and put them on a path for greater success. We are the choice for our clients because we look at our clients business from a growth perspective.

Industry: Information Technology and Services

Specialties: Digital Transformation, Big Data and Analytics, Infrastructure Management Services, Testing and IV&V, Cyber Security, Active Directory and E-mail Infrastructure, Project Management, Training, and ERP, CRM. EAI, BI

COMPANY SIZE
500 to 999 employees
INDUSTRY
Staffing/Employment Agencies
WEBSITE
http://www.ampcus.com