Location: Chantilly, VA
Security Clearance: Active TS or higher [Required] w/ ability to obtain a CI Poly
Job Type: Full-Time
Target Salary Range*:$120,000 - $140,000
*This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary
Position Overview
The Business Analyst (Senior) gathers and analyzes requirements, conducts user interviews, and evaluates business processes to identify opportunities for AI-driven solutions. This role works with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, development teams, UX designers, and federal clients to create clear, testable user stories, refine backlogs, and validate deliverables against acceptance criteria and stakeholder expectations.
The Business Analyst (Senior) produces functional specifications, business process diagrams, use cases, and requirements traceability matrices supporting development and compliance documentation. The role also supports user acceptance testing, resolves requirement ambiguities, and helps ensure solutions align with mission objectives, federal standards, and complex AI, data, and cross-domain technical environments.
Key Responsibilities
Requirements Gathering and Analysis
- Elicit and analyze business and functional requirements through stakeholder interviews, workshops, and documentation review.
- Translate complex requirements into clear user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria.
- Resolve requirement ambiguities and establish a shared understanding of requirements and constraints.
- Conduct gap analysis between current capabilities and the desired future state.
- Analyze business processes and workflows to identify opportunities for AI-driven automation and optimization.
Agile Development Support
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and daily standups.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, development teams, UX designers, and federal clients to prioritize features.
- Validate user story completion against acceptance criteria and stakeholder expectations.
- Support communication and coordination throughout the Agile development lifecycle.
Documentation and Traceability
- Draft functional specifications and business requirements documents.
- Develop business process diagrams, process flows, and use cases.
- Maintain requirements traceability matrices supporting development and compliance documentation.
- Ensure requirements and supporting documentation remain aligned with solution capabilities and stakeholder expectations.
Stakeholder Communication and User Acceptance Testing
- Facilitate communication between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support user acceptance testing by developing test scenarios, coordinating testing activities, and documenting results.
- Gather user feedback and support resolution of identified issues.
- Ensure solutions align with mission objectives and applicable federal standards.
AI and GenAI Solution Support
- Support requirements analysis for in-house custom-developed applications.
- Support multi-model and multi-modality AI capabilities involving reasoning, perception, memory, and tool execution.
- Support requirements involving temporal, spatial, geographic, quantitative, and computer vision AI implementations.
- Support Named Entity Recognition, contextual entity extraction, and entity resolution capabilities.
- Support multi-step retrieval and structured output generation.
- Support complex data parsing, streamlined ingestion, deep source citation, and traceable analytic outputs.
Data Architecture and Integration Support
- Support requirements involving vector, graph, and multi-database orchestration.
- Support automated ETL pipeline creation, scheduling, and optimization.
- Support Attribute-Based Access Control at the data layer.
- Support provenance and end-to-end data lineage tracking.
- Support schema-aligned ingestion and normalization of diverse structured and unstructured data.
Enterprise Infrastructure and Cross-Domain Support
- Support requirements involving air-gapped, hybrid, and on-premises operational environments.
- Support container orchestration and distributed systems management using Kubernetes.
- Support environments using locally hosted GPU servers and hyperconverged nodes.
- Support multitenant Cross-Domain Solutions.
Application Development and Integration Support
- Support requirements involving UI, backend, and middleware technologies including TypeScript, React, Python, FastAPI, LanceDB, Lance Graph, PostgreSQL, Temporal.io, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Support integration of reasoning components, retrieval systems, databases, and AI/GenAI services.
- Support solutions using modern programming languages and frameworks.
Qualifications
Education
Experience
Skills
- Experience gathering and analyzing business and functional requirements. [Required]
- Experience developing user stories and acceptance criteria. [Required]
- Experience producing functional specifications, process diagrams, use cases, and requirements traceability matrices. [Required]
- Experience supporting Agile software development teams and backlog refinement activities. [Required]
- Experience facilitating communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders. [Required]
- Experience supporting user acceptance testing and requirements validation. [Required]
- Ability to analyze business processes and identify opportunities for automation and optimization. [Required]