SAP Business Analyst

CDIT Solutions is seeking a detail-oriented Business Analyst with hands-on Agile or SAFe experience to support the Joint Transportation Management System (JTMS) program for the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM). The Business Analyst supports cross-functional teams through backlog refinement, user story creation, and iteration planning, facilitates stakeholder collaboration, contributes to PI Planning events, and ensures alignment between business objectives and technical execution.

Key Responsibilities

•       Bring both an understanding of real-world mission and business objectives and a working grasp of software development practices and technologies.

•       Serve as the focal point for the capture, analysis, and management of functional and non-functional systems requirements and user stories.

•       Decompose Features into stories within a product backlog that can be implemented in a series of short, iterative development cycles.

•       Work closely with the Scrum Master to establish Sprint backlogs, resolve impediments, and provide direction on scope of work.

•       Lead and facilitate backlog refinement, ensuring work items are clearly defined, prioritized, and ready for implementation.

•       Collaborate with Product Owners to prioritize the backlog and align requirements with business objectives and roadmap goals.

•       Define and maintain team and iteration backlog content, including documenting stories and acceptance criteria, identifying dependencies, and ensuring traceability.

•       Work closely with Product Owners and Functional SMEs to verify understanding of requirements and alignment on scope and expected outcomes, and communicate business needs to the development team through user stories and acceptance criteria.

•       Define and validate acceptance criteria (AC) to enable test-driven development, ensuring they are testable and support acceptance of completed work.

•       Support future backlog refinement by elaborating upcoming work items and ensuring readiness for upcoming iterations.

•       Lead demonstrations to stakeholders and report on the results of each software iteration.

Required Qualifications

•       U.S. citizen with an active DoD Secret clearance. Clearance must be active, in scope, and held in DISS prior to start.

•       Ability to pass a background investigation; criteria include, but are not limited to, a 3-year check for felony convictions, a 1-year check for illegal drug use, and a 1-year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud.

•       College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Management Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

•       Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a business analyst on iterative software development projects.

•       Familiarity with SAFe or Agile methodologies.

•       Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

•       Strong skills with MS Office tools (Excel, Word, Project, Visio) and SharePoint.

Preferred Qualifications

•       Certified SAFe Product Owner.

•       Certified SAFe Practitioner.

•       Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP).

•       Agile or Scrum Master certification.

•       SAP or software development background.

•       Knowledge and experience with the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK).

•       Experience with ServiceNow or Jira.

•       Acts independently to expose and resolve problems.

Location, Travel & Compliance

•       Remote role. Candidate must live within 1 hour of Scott Air Force Base, IL (strict requirement).

•       Approximately 10% travel every 12 weeks to Scott Air Force Base, IL.