Senior Business Analyst, Agile Scrum Master

Senior Business Analyst, Agile Scrum Master at Sovereign Technologies

The Senior Business Analyst, Agile Scrum Master will support and advance strategic initiatives focused on Shipment Tracking (SOAR), FourKites, and other transportation platforms. This role plays a central part in enhancing shipment visibility, real-time tracking capabilities, and operational insights across transportation and distribution networks. The Senior Business Analyst, Agile Scrum Master will collaborate with transportation, supply chain, data, and IT teams to drive solution enhancements, optimize data flow and tracking accuracy, and influence product roadmaps that support visibility modernization efforts.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert for Shipment Tracking (SOAR), FourKites, and supply chain visibility solutions.
• Lead requirements, process analysis, and enhancement efforts for SOAR initiatives.
• Partner with transportation and logistics teams to improve shipment tracking accuracy, milestone visibility, alerting, and reporting.
• Work closely with visibility vendors (e.g., FourKites) to identify issues, assess new features, support integration improvements, and manage solution enhancements.
• Analyze upstream and downstream system impacts within visibility, TMS, WMS, and carrier integrations.
• Lead Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, demos, and retrospectives.
• Drive capacity planning and capacity prediction to ensure realistic sprint commitments.
• Facilitate alignment among Product Owners, developers, and testers to ensure SOAR and visibility initiatives progress predictably.
• Prepare and maintain clear, structured user stories and acceptance criteria that support visibility platform enhancements.
• Execute comprehensive business analysis processes, including requirements elicitation and documentation.
• Coordinate and lead UAT for SOAR, FourKites, and other visibility-related deliverables.
• Support functional testing as required for visibility and SOAR enhancements.
• Support production deployments, release activities, and post-deployment validation as needed.
• Serve as liaison across IT, business stakeholders, and external partners.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 5+ years of Business Analysis experience.
• 3–5 years of experience in Agile environments with user story and acceptance criteria development.
• Strong analytical and project management skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across business and IT teams.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, and Outlook.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with SOAR, FourKites, Project44, or other shipment visibility tools.
• Understanding of real-time tracking, carrier integrations, milestone events, shipment exceptions, and visibility analytics.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Systems, or related field (preferred).

Key skills/competency

• Shipment Tracking
• FourKites
• Supply Chain Visibility
• Agile Methodologies
• User Stories
• Business Analysis
• UAT Coordination
• Data Flow Optimization
• Carrier Integrations
• Scrum Master