Senior Functional Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex requirements elicitation sessions with Government stakeholders, subject matter experts, and executive leadership using structured facilitation techniques such as interviews, workshops, and document analysis.
• Translate business, operational, and compliance needs into structured functional and non-functional requirements.
• Owning the end-to-end requirements lifecycle from discovery through production deployment using Confluence and Jira.
• Decompose system capabilities into epics, features, and detailed user stories and acceptance criteria to Agile delivery practices.
• Maintain bidirectional traceability in Jira between requirements, design artifacts, test cases, acceptance criteria and release deliverables.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and user acceptance testing.
• Support Product Owner in backlog prioritization aligned to mission value and operational impact.
• Ensure acceptance criteria and test scenarios documented in Jira are sufficient for internal QA/Test execution and coordinate the transition of validated stories to stakeholder QAT events.
• Cook up with QAT/UAT stakeholders to facilitate testing, validate functional outcomes against documented requirements, and disposition defects or change requests back through the appropriate Jira boards.
• Analyze user feedback and system performance metrics to inform feature enhancements and continuous improvement.
• Develop clear, concise technical documentation, draft training materials, and executive-level briefings.
• Partner with AWS cloud development teams supporting Ruby on Rails backend services, React front-end applications, PostgreSQL databases, and GraphQL APIs.
• Support design discussions by providing functional context for data models, database structures, access control requirements, and role-based entitlement needs.
• Provide functional guidance on data modeling, database design considerations, and API schema structures.
• Collaborate within a DevSecOps pipeline supporting CI/CD, automated testing, and secure release management.
• Ensure requirements incorporate DoD security controls, role-based access controls, and least-privilege models.
• Identify functional risks, integration gaps, and system impacts; recommend mitigation strategies.
• Contribute to audit readiness and ATO sustainment activities.
• Stakeholder Engagement:
• Serve as a trusted advisor to Government leadership, technical teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Deliver functional briefings and support training sessions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Promote transparent communication and collaborative problem-solving across distributed teams.

Required Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required, with ability to pass an IT-II background investigation; active Secret clearance preferred.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of progressive experience in functional analysis, business systems analysis, or requirements engineering supporting federal IT systems.
• Demonstrated experience supporting AWS cloud-native application development environments.
• Experience operating within Agile or DevSecOps delivery environments using Confluence and Jira.
• Demonstrated experience constructing workflow diagrams, data flow diagrams, interface specifications, and requirements traceability matrices.
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking mindset with exceptional attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience briefing executive-level stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).