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.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess an active Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, Agile software delivery, product delivery, or enterprise application implementation, including experience coordinating or leading a cross-functional Agile team.
• Strong hands-on experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and refining business and functional requirements for complex enterprise applications.
• Experience creating and managing features, user stories, acceptance criteria, tasks, defects, dependencies, and traceability within Azure DevOps (ADO) or a comparable Agile lifecycle management tool.
• Working knowledge of SAFe or other scaled Agile delivery practices, including PI Planning, Program Increments, iteration execution, backlog refinement, demonstrations, retrospectives, and dependency management.
• Ability to facilitate productive discussions among Product Owners, business stakeholders, developers, testers, and technical teams and convert complex discussions into clear decisions and actionable work.
• Strong analytical, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain delivery focus in a complex environment.

Desired Skills

• Experience supporting PeopleSoft HCM or another large-scale ERP or enterprise business application, including understanding of application workflows, integrations, security, batch processes, and release dependencies.
• Experience serving as a Team Lead, Business Analyst, Scrum Master, iteration lead, or similar delivery role for a software development team.
• Hands-on experience using Azure DevOps Boards, queries, dashboards, backlogs, sprint/iteration views, and reporting to support Agile delivery and stakeholder visibility.
• Experience working in a SAFe environment with multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs), shared services, cross-team dependencies, and coordinated Program Increment execution.
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM), SAFe Agilist, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, or other relevant Agile/SAFe certification is a plus.
• Experience with business process modeling, requirements traceability, functional design documentation, user acceptance testing, defect triage, and release readiness activities.
• Experience supporting federal or DoD enterprise systems in secured or highly controlled environments is preferred.
• Ability to balance team leadership responsibilities with hands-on business analysis and requirements work rather than functioning solely as a project manager or Scrum facilitator.

Additional Information

• Clearance: Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Secret security clearance.
• Work Environment: Onsite/Hybrid as required by the contract.
• This is a full-time, W2 position.
• No agencies, third parties, or Corp-to-Corp submissions.
• Spatial Front Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer — all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status.
• SFI participates in E-Verify.