McLean, VA - FS Business Analyst – Contractor

Location: McLean, VA. Contract: Onsite, 5 days per week.

About the role

Client is seeking experienced Multifamily Systems & Traceability Analysts to support the technical component of Banking and Finance Multifamily Credit Policy Traceability Assessment. The role will evaluate how individual Credit Policy requirements are implemented, enforced, or surfaced within the myOptigo platform, establishing traceability from policy requirements to application functionality, business rules, decision logic, workflows, validations, and manual controls. The ideal candidate combines strong business/systems analysis capabilities with multifamily lending knowledge and sufficient technical depth to investigate application implementation.

Responsibilities

• Establish requirement-level traceability between Multifamily Credit Policy and myOptigo functionality.
• Analyze implementation and enforcement through:
  • Business rules and decision logic
  • UI validations and workflow controls
  • Data-entry requirements and field-level restrictions
  • Automated underwriting and eligibility determinations
  • Funding and delivery controls
  • Credit Policy Exception (CPE) processing
  • Document requirements and system-generated conditions
  • Workflow status transitions
  • Approval requirements
  • Manual processes and controls
• Review Jira, Confluence, BitBucket, system documentation, business requirements, application artifacts, and other available evidence.
• Work with application SMEs, developers, architects, product owners, underwriting SMEs, and business stakeholders to understand system behavior.
• Determine whether policy requirements are fully implemented, partially implemented, minimally implemented, manually controlled, or not implemented.
• Document the evidence supporting each traceability determination.
• Identify gaps and inconsistencies between intended policy requirements and system implementation.
• Identify areas where requirements currently rely upon manual rather than system-enforced controls.
• Support assessment of opportunities for improved traceability, governance, and future automation.
• Participate in peer review and QA to ensure complete, consistent, and accurate traceability.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of business analyst and/or systems analyst experience.
• 1+ year of multifamily experience.
• Understanding of the multifamily loan market, including underwriting processes and underwriting standards.