Senior Functional Analyst-VHA Finance

Clearwaters.IT is seeking a highly motivated and self-directed professional to fill an opening for a Senior Functional Analyst role that will be responsible for leading the capturing of business requirements for software development teams. This role involves close collaboration with business users, IT teams, and leadership to elaborate and document requirements, and manage requirements in an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool. The ideal candidate has a strong background in software development, and Agile / SAFe methodologies. This position is 100% remote. Candidate MUST reside within the United States to be considered. Job Responsibilities: Perform Agile requirements' management activities for a product team; perform the analysis of user needs to determine functional, cross-functional, and technical requirements Conduct user interviews, leading and facilitating sessions, and developing business process models and formal specifications Work with customers, team members, stakeholder users, and other contractors to gather, and document business, functional, technical & non-technical requirements Perform elaboration of user stories and decomposition of stories into backlog items and determine acceptance criteria Use an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool (JIRA) for Requirements Management, Testing, and Defect Management) to create and manage requirements, Epics, Sub-epics, and User Stories. Collection, tracking and monitoring of system and business requiremen