Business Analyst 3

Position Summary

The Business Analyst 3 supports Agile software development programs by gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements; translating mission and business needs into detailed specifications; and ensuring delivered functionality aligns with documented requirements. This role partners closely with business users, product owners, engineers, and Scrum teams to support requirements traceability, process improvement, testing, and reporting activities in DoD or IC environments.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and document business requirements through stakeholder interviews, workshops, and process observation.
• Translate business needs into detailed functional and technical specifications.
• Create comprehensive documentation including user stories, use cases, process flows, and system requirements.
• Maintain requirements traceability throughout project lifecycles.
• Conduct gap analysis between current-state and future-state capabilities.
• Develop process maps, workflows, and standard operating procedures.
• Collaborate with business users, project managers, developers, and other key stakeholders.
• Analyze system functionality and performance to ensure alignment with business requirements.
• Support user acceptance testing, system testing, and validation activities.
• Create reports, dashboards, and visualizations to support decision-making.

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.
• 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst supporting Agile software development programs, preferably within DoD or IC environments.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience in lieu of a degree
• Proven experience translating mission and business needs into epics, features, and well-defined user stories with acceptance criteria in an Agile environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience facilitating discussions to elicit requirements from business users.
• Hands-on experience using JIRA, Confluence, and/or GitHub to manage backlogs, document requirements, and maintain traceability.
• Strong ability to collaborate with product owners, engineers, and Scrum teams in support of backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release activities.
• Experience performing gap analyses and workflow analysis to define current-state versus future-state system capabilities.
• Experience supporting user acceptance testing, system testing, and validation to ensure delivered functionality aligns with documented requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within DoD environments.
• Experience within IC environments.

Required Education and Experience Equivalency

Education Years of Experience High School Diploma/GED - Associates Degree - Bachelors' Degree 7 Masters' Degree 7 PhD 7
Required Certifications

• None specified.

Required Security Clearance

• Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.

Pay & Benefit Highlights

Compensation

• Competitive fixed salary or hourly pay (based on experience, skills, location, and internal equity).
• Employee referral bonuses up to $10,000 per hired referral.
• Additional bonus opportunities for exceptional performance and contributions to business development and company growth (role-dependent).

Health

• 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
• Choose from multiple plan options with CareFirst, Kaiser, and UnitedHealthcare, including PPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible plans.
• 100% company-paid dental premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
• 100% company-paid vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents.

Income Protection

• 100% company-paid premiums for short-term disability.
• 100% company-paid premiums for long-term disability.
• 100% company-paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D).
• 100% company-paid premiums for life insurance up to $200,000.

Retirement

• 401(k) with immediate vesting: 4% company match plus a 4% non-elective company contribution (8% total).
• 401(k) pre-tax and Roth options.

Leave

• Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).
• 11 paid floating holidays.

Work-Life Balance

• Flexible work schedules, including flex time and compressed work periods (contract and project-dependent).

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