Information Technology - IT Business Analyst Specialist

Job Description: *Please include the following at the top of each candidate resume - Resumes without completed templates and/or vetting questions will not be considered. Responses to vetting questions are to be provided directly from the candidates. *

MSP Owner: Ashley Dultmeyer
Location: Must be on-site in McLean, VA Hybrid- T,W,TH
Assignment Type: CTH
Duration: 6 Months
Work Authorization: All candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship and be direct W-2 employees to our vendors.

Bill Rate: MAX
Conversion Salary Range (if applicable): TBD
Must Have Qualifications: Risk and compliance background, familiar with Atlassian Suite-Jira, Jenkins, Confluence. Experience working in Agile team. Testing independently-Control Testing, UAT testing. IT general control experience, IT controls Audit-SOX, understanding full lifecycle development. Preferred- Service Now, change management
Schedule: Standard
Shortlisting Deadline:11/01

Interview Information:
Rounds: 2 Rounds
Duration: 45 Minutes|30 Minutes
Interview Type: MS Teams - Video Mandatory OR In Person
Interview Placeholders: 11/06 @ 10:00AM,4:00PM & 11/07 @ 9:00 AM,2:00PM
Interview Debrief:11/08 @ 10:30 AM

Supplier Vetting Questions:

1) How do you typically approach preparing for an audit in an agile driven organization?
2 )How do you ensure risk and compliance are not compromised by the agile delivery model?
3) In your experience, what are the common IT control weaknesses you ve encountered during audits, and how did you work with stakeholders to address these issues and effectively mitigate risk?
4) Tell me about a time you identified a significant technology risk in a project, how did you address it, and what controls were implemented or used to mitigate?

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Position Overview:

Delivery Methodology manages the software delivery methodologies for the firm (excluding Investments & Capital Markets). We support enterprise-wide technology initiatives using influence over authority and provide thought leadership for our key partners to continue improving and maturing. Using a customer and product-centric mindset, Delivery Methodology provides a framework and guidance across various business divisions to create consistency and continuity across the firm.

The incumbent will bring proven problem solving and innovation skills and will join the Governance workstream within Delivery Methodology. Interested? Read on! You will be responsible for working directly with a team enterprise wide to implement the Agile Methodology. This position requires you have hands-on experience with Agile methods, including Scrum and Kanban, understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) risks and controls and a passion for process improvement.

Your Impact:

Support the Governance workstream within Modern Delivery Office to manage all SDLC controls associated with Modern Delivery & Iterative Delivery (IDM) Methodologies

Remediate all identified risks and issues within agreed upon timeline,

Conduct quarterly Governance compliance review for IDM & Modern Delivery methodologies,

Self-identify risks and compliance issues,

Ensure teams understand and adhere to SDLC controls,

Identify opportunities to optimize and automate SDLC controls and lead the effort to make improvements (including rolling out changes to teams).

Coordinate with product teams to share documentation, when needed

Influence process improvements that benefit product teams

Identify processes that cause toil for product teams and have opportunity for review/improvement

Work with leaders in other areas to drive improvements that will lessen toil for product teams

Support the change management aspects process improvements/changes

Communicate changes with teams to ensure new process changes are understood and integrated

Qualifications:

5 + years of demonstrated relevant experience in SDLC governance, agile and/or program management

Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent experience

Minimum of Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Agile Certified Scrum Master (PMI-ACP) required

5 + years of direct experience in one or more aspects of Information Technology (Software design/ development, IT Architecture, or other related IT areas)

5 + years of explicit experience as an Agile Scrum Master of an Agile delivery team, preferably in a variety of situations including a large enterprise, a scaled environment, and a matrixed organization

Effective facilitation skills

Effective coaching and mentoring skills

Ability to thrive in a highly ambiguous, fast paced environment where priorities shift rapidly

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to determine solutions that help everyone win

Effective influence, collaboration, and negotiation skills

Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

Hands-on Atlassian tool experience (Jira, Confluence) preferred.

Ability to breakdown sophisticated technology concepts and present to senior leadership

Keys to Success in this Role:

Hardworking and take pride in owning your work

Ability to understand and communicate well with a passion to get the job done

Open minded to embrace new process, technologies, and culture

Ready to take on any kind of work to help drive things forward

Innovative in providing solutions

Comfortable navigating difficult conversations
Comments for Suppliers:

EEO:

Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.