Summer Associates

Job Title

Summer Associate Internship (ISD Technical Analyst)

Job Location

Vienna, VA

Job Overview

The Real Estate Lending (REL) Technology Services team is responsible for delivering secure, scalable, and channel agnostic member-centric back-end integration capabilities and support Real Estate Lending applications, accelerating the digital transformation, and empowering teams to innovate and deliver products and services through collaboration. The REL Technology Product Owner (TPO) leads three verticals with 40+ employees and consultants. A Technology Product Manager (TPM) is responsible for providing a complete product lifecycle management from design, analysis, build, manage, operate, and retire. REL Technology Services functions and delivers in a Scale Agile framework (SAFe) and is the technology owner of an extensive list of homegrown and COT solutions primarily developed in .NET, Java, MS Dynamics CRM, PEGA System, and other technologies.

The summer associate role will be as an ISD Technical Analyst supporting the REL Technology Services team.

Compensation

Hourly Rate: $xx (DOE) Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00AM - 4:30PM

Responsibilities

• Partners with TPO for overall product board/backlog creation, maintenance, and management; orders backlog items to best achieve goals and optimize the value of each sprint
• Clearly presents status and issues in variety of oral and written formats and leads product meetings
• Authors wide variety of user stories/features/product backlog items; provides critical feedback to other stories/features/backlog items
• Liaises between product team and business area
• Conducts requirements analysis and validation, ensuring requirements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards
• Solves business problems by defining systems solutions via interviewing stakeholders, identifying and evaluating alternatives, and presenting findings
• Recognizes and proactively raises issues or risks along with well-considered solutions
• Elicits and documents functional and non-functional requirements using variety of techniques, including interviews, document analysis, storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and diagramming
• Represents requirements using alternative views, such as epics/features/stories/product backlog items, models, diagrams, prototypes, or scenarios, to facilitate communication to the project / product team
• Tracks and manages requirements status and changes throughout project / product lifecycle via board/backlog management and maintenance
• Creates and communicates artifacts translating business needs into executable requirements
• Continually seeks opportunities to improve and increase level of industry/domain-specific knowledge by remaining current with emerging products and technical updates
• Presents project, product, or other material at All Hands meetings
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a degree from an accredited college or university with an anticipated graduation date of December 2024 or later
• Working towards a degree in Business Administration, Business Information Technology, or a similar major
• Advanced skills with data querying, reporting, and analysis
• Problem resolution skills including determining root cause, scope, and scale of issues
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio
• Experience in SQL and VBA database languages
• Creativity and the ability to use a variety of approaches to solve business and technical problems
• Competence in planning, organization, and multi-tasking

We're excited for you to apply!