Business Analyst SME

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Role Summary
Position Summary

The Senior Business Analyst / Business Process Architect will lead requirements elicitation, business-process analysis, and workflow modernization efforts supporting U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) International Affairs. The role will work closely with program, scientific, legal, and technical subject-matter experts to document business needs, analyze current and future-state processes, and translate requirements into clear, actionable specifications for development teams.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in business analysis and process architecture, with strong hands-on expertise in BPMN 2.0, requirements traceability, process improvement, acceptance criteria, and translating complex business requirements into technical specifications.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead requirements-gathering workshops and discovery sessions with program, scientific, legal, and technical subject-matter experts.
• Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and manage functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Establish and maintain unique requirement IDs, sources, rationale, priorities, dependencies, and traceability.
• Develop clear and deterministic acceptance criteria, including Given/When/Then scenarios.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs).
• Analyze and document current-state and future-state business processes and value streams.
• Identify and quantify process delays, bottlenecks, rework, handoffs, inefficiencies, and non-value-added activities.
• Identify opportunities for workflow optimization, automation, standardization, and modernization.
• Develop detailed BPMN 2.0 process models representing business workflows, roles, activities, decisions, exceptions, and system interactions.
• Define BPMN process pools, lanes, events, gateways, activities, and exception paths.
• Develop DMN (Decision Model and Notation) decision logic where applicable.
• Document business rules, decision points, dependencies, and exception-handling requirements.
• Translate business requirements and process models into inputs for Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) and technical specifications.
• Define business, functional, and data requirements for forms and user-facing workflows.
• Support RJSF (React JSON Schema Form) form and JSON-schema specifications.
• Define requirements for APIs, interfaces, data exchanges, and system integrations.
• Support OpenAPI, JSON, schema, and data-model requirements in collaboration with technical teams.
• Work closely with developers, architects, data teams, and QA professionals to clarify requirements and resolve ambiguities.
• Ensure requirements are sufficiently detailed, unambiguous, testable, and actionable for both human development teams and AI-assisted coding agents.
• Review delivered functionality against documented requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain requirements, process models, business rules, and supporting documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
• Facilitate stakeholder reviews and obtain agreement on requirements, workflows, and future-state processes.
• Support Agile planning activities, including user stories, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and requirements clarification.

Required Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of experience as a Senior Business Analyst, Business Process Analyst, Systems Analyst, Process Architect, or similar role.
• Extensive hands-on experience with BPMN 2.0 for business-process modeling and workflow documentation - must-have.
• Strong experience eliciting and documenting complex business and system requirements.
• Experience developing functional and nonfunctional requirements and detailed acceptance criteria.
• Strong experience with requirements traceability and Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs).
• Experience developing Agile user stories and Given/When/Then acceptance criteria.
• Strong business-process analysis and process-improvement experience.
• Experience analyzing current-state and future-state processes and identifying opportunities for workflow modernization.
• Strong understanding of business rules, process flows, decision points, exception handling, and workflow dependencies.
• Ability to work directly with developers, solution architects, technical teams, and business stakeholders.
• Understanding of APIs, JSON, schemas, data models, and system interfaces.
• Ability to translate business requirements into clear technical and implementation-oriented specifications.
• Strong written and verbal communication, facilitation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with DMN (Decision Model and Notation) and business decision modeling.
• Experience working with RJSF, JSON Schema, or similar form/schema technologies.
• Experience working with OpenAPI specifications and API/interface requirements.
• Experience supporting complex workflow, case-management, permitting, licensing, or regulatory systems.
• Experience in federal government or regulatory environments.
• Experience supporting government technology modernization initiatives.
• Experience working with environmental, natural-resource, scientific, or international-affairs programs.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies and modern software-development practices.
• Experience working in projects involving AI-assisted software development or translating requirements into specifications suitable for AI coding agents.
• Experience with process-improvement methodologies, value-stream mapping, Lean, or similar approaches.
• Experience working across multidisciplinary teams involving business, legal, scientific, technical, and operational stakeholders.

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