Principal Business Process Analyst
Regular requisition. No clearance currently required; must be able to obtain BI Full 6C (T4) public trust. Job family: Process and Operational Efficiency. U.S. citizenship required.
About the role
GDIT is seeking a Principal Business Process Analyst to support customer activities in Washington, DC, with a remote work option. This role emphasizes project management, project tracking, delivery coordination, and Agile execution. The ideal candidate combines business analysis expertise with hands-on project oversight, ensuring initiatives remain on schedule, risks are managed, and cross-functional teams deliver high-quality solutions effectively. Experience with Agile methodologies, requirements gathering, user story creation, sprint management, and using Jira, Confluence, and AI tools to track, visualize, and communicate project progress is essential.
Responsibilities
Project Management & Tracking
- Lead day-to-day project management activities, including schedule development, milestone tracking, dependency management, and risk/issue mitigation.
- Maintain and manage project plans, dashboards, status reports, and delivery roadmaps to ensure transparency across stakeholders.
- Track progress across multiple Scrum and Kanban teams using Jira, ensuring alignment between planned work, in-flight activities, and delivery commitments.
- Ensure timely follow-up on action items, deliverables, blockers, and stakeholder requests through disciplined project tracking routines.
- Establish repeatable project workflows and documentation standards to strengthen governance and operational consistency.
Agile Management & Facilitation
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Support cross-functional teams by removing impediments, improving communication flow, and ensuring alignment to sprint goals.
- Monitor sprint health metrics (velocity, burndown, capacity, flow) and proactively address risks impacting delivery.
- Manage Jira workflows, boards, tasks, and queries to support project transparency and operational efficiency.
Business Analysis & Process Optimization
- Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, document, and validate business and functional requirements, translating them into user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Document end-to-end processes and identify areas for optimization, automation, or reengineering to improve operational efficiency.
- Partner with SMEs, technical teams, analysts, and operations staff to ensure requirements are understood and delivered correctly.
- Maintain structured documentation and linked artifacts in Confluence to ensure traceability across requirements, development, and reporting.
Tools & Technology
- Use Jira and Confluence extensively for project planning, tracking, reporting, and documentation.
- Leverage AI tools for project tracking, workflow automation, documentation updates, and multi-project coordination.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- 8+ years of project management, business analysis, or Agile delivery experience
- Proven experience tracking projects, managing schedules, writing requirements, and developing user stories
- Proficiency with Jira and Confluence for project management, requirements tracking, and workflow documentation
- PMP certification
- U.S. citizenship
Qualifications
- Understanding of ITIL or other process improvement frameworks
- Experience with integration of business and operational data into Jira and Confluence to enable traceability, reporting, and workflow automation
Benefits
- Full-flex work week
- 401(k) with company match
- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
- Collaborative teams of highly motivated critical thinkers and innovators
- Medical plan options (some with Health Savings Accounts), dental plan options, vision plan
- 401(k) plan with pre- and post-tax contributions up to IRS annual limits and company match
- Paid time off plans: vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year (prorated by hire date) plus 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid Family Leave program: up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees
- Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel/accident insurance
Pay
The likely salary range for this position is $116,450 – $157,550. Salary will be set based on experience, geographic location, and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Schedule
- Scheduled weekly hours: 40
- Travel required: None
- Telecommuting options: Remote (work location: Any Location / Remote)