Senior Business Analyst

About the Role

Citizant is a leading provider of professional IT services to the U.S. government, seeking to address challenges in Agile application development, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Architecture, Product Management, and Program Management support services. We hire ethical, talented, passionate, and committed individuals who align with our core values: Drive, Delivering Excellence, Reputation, Responsibility, and a Better Future. We retain a collaborative, supportive, small-company culture where successful team effort is valued above all else.

Responsibilities

• Leads the efforts for low and moderate-complexity projects and low-complexity programs; supports efforts on highly complex projects and across all program levels.
• Formulates and defines the scope, objectives, and systems for business processes for programs and projects through research and fact-finding activities, combined with a thorough understanding of business process analysis and requirements management practices and principles.
• Recommends and applies process improvement and re-engineering methodologies and principles to conduct process improvement programs and projects by proposing, completing, and analyzing business models, data models, and hybrid enterprise models, identifying best practices, documenting and assessing performance measurements, and identifying business process and technology solutions to streamline processes.
• Provides group facilitation, interviewing, and training, and provides additional knowledge transfer to appropriate stakeholders.
• Provides expertise to business analysis framework improvement programs by assessing and providing recommendations to various disciplines.
• Demonstrates ability to independently apply business analysis on moderately to highly complex projects, scoping, requirements elicitation, business process modeling, requirements management, and feasibility and cost-benefit analysis.

Requirements

• 15 years of related work experience with progressively increasing responsibility.
• Advanced knowledge of technologies relevant to the engagement.
• Advanced proficiency in analytical, project planning, negotiating, interpersonal, and communication skills (written and oral).
• Ability to perform cost-benefit analysis, trending, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Advanced proficiency using various Microsoft Office desktop products.
• Ability to lead moderately complex business analysis efforts.
• Technical expertise in one or more business analysis-related disciplines.
• Exhibits strong communication, facilitation, formal document writing, and presentation skills.
• Provide screen mocks for new/rewritten functionality.
• Interact with business stakeholders to gain signoff on-screen designs, flow, and functionality.
• Provide functional expertise (working with Scrum Master and developers) for project backlog creation and maintenance.
• Provide functional expertise to the Scrum Master and the Scrum team for project backlog creation and maintenance, and weekly project-wide design discussions.
• Participate in scrum ceremonies, including sprint kickoffs, sprint planning, daily standups, sprint review/retrospectives, and (as applicable) end-of-sprint demos.

Qualifications

A bachelor's degree is highly preferred.

Clearance

Must be a U.S. citizen. Active IRS clearance (MBI) or the ability to obtain and maintain one is required.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Generous PTO
• Company-paid life and disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Tuition Assistance & Professional Development Program

Pay

$120,000 to $130,000 yearly