IT Business Analyst Lead

IT Business Analyst Lead

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Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Business Analyst toprovide IT business analysis, planning, and market research support to a federal agency. This is work in support of a possible newcontract we are pursuing.

Youwill be expected to perform the following typical duties:

• Conductrequirements elicitation, analysis, and market research activities leading to a business case and preparation for acquisition.
• Initiate, schedule, conduct facilitated workshops/meetings with project sponsors, product owners, business and technical subject matter experts, internal and external stakeholders.
• Map current As-Is business processes, assess gaps, and develop future To-Be states.
• Create detailed functional and non-function requirements, data requirements (including data integrations/interfaces), information security and privacy requirements, enterprise architecture requirements, and other technical requirements.
• Capture defects ofcurrent IT system(s) and data architecture deficiencies.
• Define operational metrics including target benchmark.
• Prepare business cases including cost estimates
• Prepare other supporting documents, plans, and deliverables as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degreein Accounting, Finance, Business Administration,Marketing, Information Systems Management, Computer Science or related
  field, or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
• At least 7 years of experience as a business or systems analyst on IT systems development projects
• Advanced knowledge of technologies,SDLC methodology, and UML.
• Experience with Agile to includeScrum and Scaled Agile (SAFe)
• Ability to performcost-benefit analysis, trending, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Supports stakeholder sessions and captures both decisions and context of discussions, and synthesizes into meeting notes
• Strong consulting skills - including excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong group facilitation skills
• Experience facilitating business requirements discovery
• Experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Excellent client relationship management skills
• Capable of working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
• Ability to work collaboratively and cohesively in a team environment
• Ability to work independently
• Experience using the following MS Office Suite tools: Word, Visio, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel and other process mapping tools and techniques

• Business Analysis certifications or related
• Experience with ServiceNow
• Certified Scrum Master
• Certified Product Owner

Additional Information

• Must be a US Citizen

Citizant strives to be an employer of choice in the Washington metropolitan area. Citizant associates accept challenging and rewarding work and in return receive excellent compensation and benefits, as well as the opportunity for personal and professional development.

Citizant is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.