Business Analyst - Agile/SAFe REMOTE

October 16, 2026

Business Analyst - Agile/SAFe

Location: Remote

Compensation: 75k-95.5k annual

Clearance: Confidential

We are seeking a Business Analyst to support technology and software development initiatives within a SAFe Agile environment. The Business Analyst will work closely with stakeholders, Product Management, developers, QA, Scrum Masters, and project leadership to understand business needs, analyze processes, capture business rules, and translate requirements into actionable Agile work items in Azure DevOps (ADO).

The ideal candidate can bridge the gap between business and technical teams by turning complex business processes and requirements into clear, testable, and traceable features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation.

Key Responsibilities

Elicit, analyze, validate, and document business and technical requirements throughout the software development lifecycle.
Map and document current-state and future-state business processes, including workflows, decision points, actors, system interactions, and dependencies.
Identify, document, and maintain business rules, policies, conditions, and system behaviors that govern business processes.
Translate business requirements, process models, and business rules into SAFe/Agile features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and ADO work items.
Create and maintain requirements in Azure DevOps (ADO) and ensure work items accurately reflect approved business needs and scope.
Decompose complex requirements into appropriately sized, actionable user stories that can be developed and tested within an iteration.
Develop clear, measurable, and testable acceptance criteria that define expected system behavior and business outcomes.
Maintain requirements traceability from business needs and business rules through features, user stories, development, testing, and acceptance.
Collaborate with Product Management and Product Owners to support backlog development, prioritization, refinement, and readiness.
Participate in SAFe PI Planning, backlog refinement, iteration planning, system demos, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies.
Facilitate requirements workshops and working sessions with business and technical stakeholders.
Analyze requirements and processes to identify gaps, inconsistencies, dependencies, risks, and impacts.
Work directly with developers and technical teams to clarify requirements, business rules, workflows, and expected system behavior.
Partner with QA to ensure requirements and acceptance criteria provide a sufficient basis for test planning and validation.
Review proposed solutions and developed functionality to verify alignment with approved requirements and business processes.
Analyze proposed changes and document their impact on requirements, processes, functionality, scope, and downstream systems.
Develop and maintain process flows, workflow diagrams, business rules catalogs, functional requirements, requirements traceability matrices, and other BA artifacts.
Ensure requirements and supporting documentation remain current and synchronized with ADO and the approved product backlog.
Identify and communicate requirements-related risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
Support continuous improvement of business analysis, requirements management, and Agile delivery practices.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor''''s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Project Management, or a related field, and four years of experience as a Business Analyst or related role.
Demonstrated experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements, technical requirements, and business rules.
Experience developing current-state and future-state process maps and documenting business workflows.
Experience translating requirements and process analysis into features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and Agile work items.
Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) or a comparable requirements and Agile work-management platform.
Experience working within a SAFe Agile and/or Agile/Scrum environment.
Understanding of software development lifecycles and the relationship between requirements, development, QA, deployment, and operational support.
Strong understanding of requirements traceability and requirements management.
Ability to analyze complex business processes and translate them into clear, actionable requirements for technical teams.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, and critical-thinking skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to effectively communicate with business stakeholders, Product Management, Product Owners, developers, QA, Scrum Masters, and project leadership.
Experience with process modeling and diagramming tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, or similar platforms.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office and tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, or similar platforms.
Familiarity with cloud technologies, APIs, system integrations, databases, data flows, or technical architectures is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

SAFe certification or demonstrated experience working within a SAFe Agile Release Train (ART).
Experience supporting PI Planning and iteration planning.
Experience managing and refining product backlogs in ADO.
Experience developing business rules, process models, requirements traceability, and acceptance criteria.
Experience working directly with software development and QA teams.
Experience with complex technical systems, integrations, APIs, data flows, or cloud-based applications.
Agile, SAFe, Scrum, ITIL, PMP, or related certification.

C2 Essentials is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Remote

Skills:
Agile Programming Methodologies, Analysis Skills, Application Programming Interface (API), Atlassian JIRA, Backlog Prioritization, Business Analysis, Business Development, Business Model, Business Processes, Cloud Applications, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Confidential Clearance, Continuous Improvement, DevOps, Documentation, ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library), Information Technology & Information Systems, Leadership, Microsoft ADO (ActiveX Data Object), Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Windows Azure, Needs Assessment, Operational Support, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Process Analysis, Process Flow Diagram (PFD), Process Improvement, Process Modeling, Product Backlog, Product Demonstration, Product Management, Product Support, Project Management Professional (PMP), Project/Program Management, QA Partner Testing Software, Quality Assurance, Requirements Management, Scrum Project Management and Software Development, ScrumMaster, Software Development, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Software Testing, System Integration (SI), Technical Support, Technical Writing, Test Plan/Schedule, Testing, Traceability, Validation Plan, Validation Testing, Writing Skills

C2 Essentials Inc

Overview

Headquartered in Northern Virginia for over 20 years, C2 Essentials is a strategic HR Outsourcing company. C2 provides Benefit & Healthcare Reform Management; Recruiting; Payroll & Tax Administration; Employer Liability Management services; and Federal Contract services with its industry-leading ASO and PEO models. C2 is not a placement agency or a headhunter, we are the backend office providing HR and recruiting support to our customers so they are focusing on servicing their customers and building their core competencies. Our clients count on C2 recruiters to source qualified candidates for their government contracts. C2 has a successful track record of locating individuals with unique qualifications, skill sets or professional experiences. Through careful attention to the job requirements, in-depth screening, interviewing and evaluation of candidates C2 has developed a unique methodology in sourcing the right candidates for our clients’ various programs.

Company Size:
100 to 499 employees

Industry:
Staffing/Employment Agencies

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