Application Systems Analyst Lead - Contingent

Public Trust Eligibility Required This is a contingent position, meaning employment is dependent upon the successful award of the associated contract to Aretum and completion of any required background investigation or security clearance verification. About Aretum Aretum is a mission-driven organization committed to delivering innovative, technology-enabled solutions to our customers across defense, civilian, and homeland security sectors. Our teams work at the intersection of strategy, technology, and transformation, helping agencies solve their most critical challenges. We believe in investing in our people and creating a culture where collaboration, inclusion, and professional growth are at the forefront. Job Summary Aretum is seeking an Application Systems Analyst Lead for a role supporting a large-scale federal digital content management and systems integration program. In the systems analyst capacity, you will work directly with government business stakeholders, user experience staff, and subject matter experts to define the business rules, metadata mappings, and workflow designs that drive content exchange between major enterprise systems, turning ambiguous business needs into clear, buildable user stories for a small Agile development team. In the lead capacity, you will run the delivery engine of the engagement, facilitating Agile ceremonies, tracking sprint performance against committed story points, reporting progress and risks to government stakeholders, and keeping a sprint-based contract on schedule through closeout. This position suits a senior analyst who is equally comfortable in a metadata crosswalk spreadsheet and a program status briefing. Due to the nature of our work as a federal consulting organization, employees may be expected to handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and must adhere to applicable safeguarding and compliance requirements. Responsibilities • Elicit, analyze, and document content eligibility criteria and business rules for content selection, such as date ranges, status flags, and ownership boundaries, including inclusion and exclusion criteria, filtering logic, and selection triggers, in collaboration with government business and user experience staff. • Inventory source and target metadata fields and develop field mapping, transformation, and normalization rules, addressing required, optional, derived, and system-generated metadata across integrated systems. • Define metadata quality, completeness, and schema compliance validation rules, and create reconciliation procedures for metadata mismatches and validation failures, including exception queues and remediation paths. • Document workflow states, approvals, escalations, and exception paths, along with user roles, permissions, and administrative responsibilities for workflow administration and governance functions. • Document exception handling for excluded, duplicate, or incomplete content, and define audit and traceability requirements for content selection and transfer decisions. • Translate analysis into well-formed JIRA user stories with clear acceptance criteria, and support backlog grooming, story scoring, and sprint planning with the development team and government product stakeholders. • Collaborate with government QA and testing staff on acceptance and testing criteria, and support user acceptance testing, validation activities, and operational readiness reviews. • Provide analytical input into lifecycle documentation maintained by the client, including system requirements documents, design documents, workflow diagrams, and security assessment and authorization inputs. • Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, user story creation sessions, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, for a scrum team on a three-week sprint cadence. • Track and report sprint performance, including planned versus actual story point completion, velocity trends, and quality metrics, using JIRA dashboards and program reporting tools. • Prepare and deliver clear written and verbal status reports to government stakeholders covering progress, risks, dependencies, and issues, and maintain risk and dependency logs throughout the engagement. • Coordinate cross-team dependencies with government project managers, developers, testers, and subject matter experts across the broader program. • Monitor delivery against contract deliverables and sprint commitments on a per-sprint engagement, flagging scope, schedule, or staffing risks early and proposing corrective actions. • Support onboarding, delivery governance, KPI definition, and backlog structuring at engagement start-up, and lead closeout activities at engagement end, including ticket closure, documentation finalization, and transition support. Requirements • Minimum 5 years of combined experience in business and systems analysis and project management/project lead supporting software development teams. • Bac...