Team Lead / Business Analyst

Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI) is seeking a Team Lead / Business Analyst to support our growing team. SFI was recently awarded the 2025 USA Today National Top Places to Work award and the 2025 Washington Post Top Workplaces. The ideal candidate will lead the day-to-day delivery of a cross-functional Agile team supporting PeopleSoft HCM while also serving as a hands-on Business Analyst responsible for requirements discovery, analysis, refinement, and traceability. This role will coordinate closely with Product Owners, business stakeholders, developers, testers, and other delivery teams to translate mission and business needs into clear, actionable work for an Agile team of approximately 8–12 members. The ideal candidate will combine strong business analysis, facilitation, Agile delivery, and team coordination skills with experience working in SAFe environments and managing work through Azure DevOps (ADO). As a valued member of the SFI team, you will help deliver reliable, mission-critical capabilities to our Federal Government customers.

Location

Crystal City, VA - On-site/Hybrid

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day coordination and execution of a cross-functional Agile team of approximately 8–12 developers, testers, analysts, and other technical contributors supporting PeopleSoft HCM implementation.
• Partner closely with Product Owners and business stakeholders to understand business needs, clarify priorities, capture requirements, and translate desired outcomes into actionable features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation.
• Facilitate requirements elicitation sessions, stakeholder interviews, process walkthroughs, working sessions, and refinement activities to identify functional needs, business rules, dependencies, assumptions, and constraints.
• Maintain and refine the team backlog in Azure DevOps (ADO), ensuring work items are well-defined, appropriately prioritized, traceable, estimated, and ready for development and testing.
• Coordinate team execution across the SAFe delivery lifecycle, including PI Planning, iteration planning, backlog refinement, daily team coordination, system demonstrations, retrospectives, and Inspect & Adapt activities.
• Help the team plan and execute within approximately three-month Program Increments (PIs), including preparation of objectives, identification of dependencies and risks, tracking of commitments, and adjustment of plans as priorities evolve.
• Coordinate with Product Owners, Release Management, testing, infrastructure, integration, and other Agile teams to identify and resolve cross-team dependencies, sequencing needs, environment constraints, and delivery risks.
• Work with developers and QA staff throughout implementation to answer requirement questions, clarify expected behavior, support defect triage, and ensure delivered functionality aligns with approved business needs and acceptance criteria.
• Monitor team progress, blockers, risks, and commitments using ADO boards, queries, dashboards, and delivery metrics; communicate status clearly to Product Owners, stakeholders, and program leadership.
• Promote disciplined Agile practices, transparency, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement while helping the team maintain focus on business value and completion of committed work.
• Document current and future-state business processes, functional requirements, workflows, decision rules, interfaces, data needs, and other artifacts needed to support implementation and sustainment.
• Support release readiness, demonstrations, user acceptance activities, production validation, and post-release follow-up for functionality delivered by the team.
• Coach team members on effective use of Agile practices and ADO while escalating impediments or organizational issues that require support beyond the team.
• Other duties as assigned.