Senior Business Analyst (Management Analysis/Business Analysis/User Support)

Peraton is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join our team of qualified and diverse individuals.  This role supports a federal financial regulatory agency responsible for maintaining stability and public confidence in the nation’s financial system. The work involves activities related to the oversight, management, and resolution of failing or failed financial institutions, ensuring operational readiness, informed decision‑making, and continuity of critical financial services.

Work Location:  This role is based in Arlington, VA or Dallas, TX and would require you to reside close to either of these cities.

Day to Day Roles and Responsibilities: 

• The Senior Business Analyst interacts with users to identify opportunities to improve user and system efficiency.
• Works directly with clients to determine project scope, document requirements, resolve specifications and development issues, coordinate implementation tasks, and support training initiatives.
• This role performs the assigned tasks with a high level of technical complexity or organizational visibility and require specialized technical or analytical expertise.
• Plans and implements complex data analysis and reporting projects.
• Elicits business requirements from users, develops and documents functional system requirements, analyzes and documents business processes, success factors and related metrics, and plans and supports release processes.
• Gathers facts, analyzes data, prepares synopses comparing alternatives in terms of cost, time, availability of tools and personnel, and recommends a course of action.
• Identify failures during reviews or test execution and logs the information needed to allow the developer to understand, reproduce, and address the issue.
• Provides technical and non-technical support to users interacting with systems, business applications and desktop solutions.
• Ensures systems and services meet business requirements and design specifications.
• Develops and produces reports with technical complexity using reporting tools in multiple applications.
• Works independently and provides technical leadership to less experienced staff in the same role.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree and 8 years of experience or an Associates degree and 10 years of experience or a High School diploma/equivalent and 12 years of experience. 
• US Citizenship required; must have ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• 8 years of experience performing business and process analysis.
• 8 years of developing business requirements to include:process narratives, user stories and persona's, use cases, business rules, business and system models, interface design and definitions, wireframes, data flow diagrams, and data mapping.
• 8 years of experience supporting release implementations, including creating and executing test plans and test cases.
• Experience resolving highly complex requirements conflicts through effective stakeholder engagement.
• Experience developing presentations and presenting to clients.
• Ability to work effectively with others in a team-oriented setting.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.