Business Analyst

Duties And Responsibilities

• Plan and facilitate requirements workshops, interviews, document reviews, and validation sessions with business, technical, data, security, and governance stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain requirements-management artifacts, business requirements, assumptions, constraints, use cases, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Analyze current and future business processes across planning, programming, budgeting, execution, acquisition, approvals, reporting, and audit support.
• Decompose business, functional, technical, and non-functional needs into implementation-ready epics, features, stories, and backlog items.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability from mission need and contract requirement through design, backlog, configuration, test evidence, release, and acceptance.
• Capture data, integration, security, privacy, accessibility, records-management, and operational requirements in collaboration with subject matter experts.
• Support backlog refinement, prioritization, dependency analysis, requirement-change control, and impact assessment.
• Collaborate with architects and developers to clarify requirements and verify that proposed designs address stakeholder intent without unnecessary customization.
• Support functional testing and UAT by defining expected outcomes, reviewing test coverage, triaging requirement questions, and coordinating acceptance inputs.
• Provide process and role information to training, communications, technical-writing, and support teams.

Knowledge And Skills Required

• 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Requirements Analyst, Product Analyst, Systems Analyst, or comparable role supporting software or systems delivery.
• Demonstrated experience eliciting and documenting business, functional, technical, and non-functional requirements.
• Experience developing user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, process documentation, and requirements traceability.
• Ability to analyze complex business processes and translate stakeholder needs into clear, actionable implementation guidance.
• Experience working in Agile, iterative, or hybrid delivery environments with Product Owners, architects, developers, and testers.
• Strong facilitation, analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Visio, Excel, or comparable requirements and collaboration platforms.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote, cross-functional, client-facing environment.

Knowledge And Skills Desired

• Experience in Federal, state, health, financial, acquisition, or another regulated environment; direct VA experience is beneficial but not required.
• Familiarity with PPBE, budgeting, financial execution, acquisition workflow, reporting, or internal-control processes.
• Exposure to Pega, Appian, Salesforce, or another enterprise low-code/workflow platform.
• Working knowledge of FedRAMP, Section 508, role-based access, audit trails, or data-governance concepts.
• CBAP, CCBA, PMI-PBA, Agile, product, or process-improvement certification is preferred, but not required.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Finance, Public Administration, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Clearance

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

WORK LOCATION

Remote