The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s/applicant’s qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking a Product Requirement Analyst in Vienna, VA.

Role Description
To compile, research, analyze, and document data, requirements, workflow / processes, and functionality for Real Estate Lending (REL). To develop and evaluate information and prepare recommendations. To partner with REL Technology leadership in the creation, management, and maintenance of product boards and product backlogs. Work is performed under general direction.

• Clearly presents status and issues in variety of oral and written formats and leads product meetings.
• Authors wide variety of user stories/features/product backlog items; provides critical feedback to other stories/features/backlog items.
• Liaises between the assigned REL Technology team and other business systems areas, including REL/Mortgage production business units when necessary.
• Conducts requirements analysis and validation for Mortgage processes, ensuring requirements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.
• Solves business problems by defining systems solutions via interviewing stakeholders, identifying, and evaluating alternatives, and presenting findings.
• Manages medium-large projects/product lines either solo or as part of a team of Analysts.
• Recognizes and proactively raises issues or risks along with well-considered solutions.
• Elicits and documents functional and non-functional requirements using variety of techniques, including interviews, document analysis, storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and diagramming.
• Represents requirements using alternative views, such as epics/features/stories/product backlog items, models, diagrams, prototypes, or scenarios, to facilitate communication to the project / product team.
• Tracks and manages requirements status and changes throughout project / product lifecycle via board/backlog management and maintenance.
• Creates and communicates artifacts translating business needs into executable requirements.
• Continually seeks opportunities to improve and increase level of industry/domain-specific knowledge by remaining current with emerging products and technical updates.
• Presents project, product, or other material at various meetings.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills & Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field, or the equivalent combination of training, education, and experience.
• Manage multiple priorities independently and/or in a team environment to achieve goals via effective organizational, planning, and time management skills
• Possesses/maintains solid skills with data querying, reporting, and analysis, comfortable recommending solutions to problems
• Possesses/maintains solid verbal and written communication skills
• Possesses/maintains significant experience with Microsoft Office suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio; artifacts and deliverables are polished and professional
• Proficient understanding/ knowledge and work experience with Azure DevOps Boards
• Demonstrates and applies knowledge in Information Technology solution creation and delivery to assigned project/product.
• Proficient Product Management work experience
• Experienced in applying Agile principles and Agile Methodology
• Experienced in monitoring and maintain multiple Azure DevOps boards/projects
• Demonstrates competence in planning, organization, and multi-tasking.
• Strong requirements gathering experience
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, particularly when it comes to establishing good relationships with other business units and business partners and overcoming hurdles, such as ambiguous or outdated feature outlines
• Requires limited direction and is self-driven to overcome obstacles and get to the root of issues
• Robust process flow and state diagram experience
• Possesses a holistic understanding of custom-code development process automation
• Experience conducting requirements analysis (functional and non-functional) and authoring user stories/features/epics/product backlog/prototypes/etc
• Experience in data analysis and reporting - able to provide recommendations based on findings
• Creating state and process flow diagrams (BPMN)
• Creating BRDs and SRDs
• Experience applying agile principles and methodology
• Certifications in MS Azure Cloud Fundamentals, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Knowledge of Navy Federal’s functions, philosophy, operations, and organizational objectives
• Navy Federal Service Now knowledge
• Knowledge of Navy Federal products, services, programs, policies, and procedures

Benefits/Other Compensation

This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there’s a position you really want, you’re fully prepared to get it.

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