Senior Product Analyst

Job Discription:

We're seeking a Product Analyst with expertise in eliciting and documenting requirements as user stories and working with the development team to build the products. This role is part of a collaborative and agile team that supports and builds modern, usable, and responsive applications for mission-critical health IT solutions.

The candidate will serve as the Product Analyst/Scrum Master for a development team responsible for executing risk adjustment model runs at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid. The individual will facilitate Agile ceremonies within the Agile Release Train (SAFe) while coordinating the backlog and requirements, working alongside a Lead Business Analyst and Product Manager.

Minimum Qualifications

Ability to successfully obtain a U.S. Federal Position of Trust clearance designation.

Must reside in and be able to perform work in the United States.

Must have lived in the United States for 3 of the last 5 years.

Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of relevant experience (e.g., product/business analyst and Scrum Master on federal or healthcare IT programs).

Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) or CSM; SAFe certification (e.g., SAFe Scrum Master / SAFe Practitioner, SAFe POPM) strongly preferred.

Demonstrated experience facilitating Agile ceremonies

Hands-on proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and TestRail for backlog management, traceability, and Agile artifacts.

Experience translating requirements into an epic → feature → user story → subtask hierarchy with BDD/Gherkin acceptance criteria and working with the client to apply prioritization.

Demonstrated ability to exercise creative and critical thinking to identify and evaluate alternatives toward arriving at decisions with stakeholders.

Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to document complex problems in a simple & intuitive manner that others can understand.

Preferred / Desired Qualifications

CMS or Medicare Advantage / Part D risk adjustment domain knowledge; familiarity with encounter data.

Experience supporting data-processing or model-execution teams (Python-based pipelines, data engineering) in a cloud (AWS) environment.

Familiarity with federal software governance, change control, and Definitions of Ready/Done.

Key Responsibilities

Facilitate all Agile ceremonies for the scrum team and remove impediments to sprint execution.

Own and maintain the team backlog in Jira, coordinating with the Product Manager and Key Business Analyst to refine, prioritize, and ready user stories for iteration planning.

Coordinate delivery of the 6–10 annual production run cycles, aligning sprint work to client-directed run schedules, dry runs, and readiness runs.

Track dependencies, risks, and impediments including upstream/downstream data handoffs and escalate as needed.

Ensure work items meet Definitions of Ready and Done, with BDD/Gherkin acceptance criteria and full traceability across Jira/Confluence/TestRail.

Support change control board governance, software development stage gates, and program increment boundary transitions by preparing required Agile artifacts.

Provide sprint metrics, capacity/load reporting, and status to the Product Manager and CMS stakeholders; contribute to weekly/monthly deliverable packages.

Support Program Increment planning (draft/final objectives, capacity, dependencies, risks) and participate in Inspect & Adapt.