Technical Architecture Specialist 2

Location: Harrisburg, PA
Work Arrangement: Hybrid - 40% Onsite / 60% Remote (Harrisburg, PA)
Schedule: 8 hours per day, 5 days per week
Interview: Virtual
Contract: 09/07/2026 - 07/03/2027. Historically, these roles are extended for an additional year.
Visas Accepted: USC, GC, GC EAD, H1B

Role Overview

This position will serve as a Delivery & Validation Business Analyst within the Project Management Office (PMO), supporting application modernization, technology upgrades, infrastructure initiatives, system migrations, and other technology projects across the agency. The position will perform core business analysis responsibilities with a specialization in requirements traceability, solution validation, business readiness, and transition to production.

The position is hybrid with two (2) in-office days per week in Harrisburg, PA; Wednesday is mandatory.

Primary Responsibilities

• Work closely with business stakeholders, Project Managers, Application Development, architects, technical teams, vendors, and other partners to understand business needs and translate them into clear, structured, and actionable requirements.
• Elicit, analyze, validate, and document business requirements, processes, workflows, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop current-state and future-state documentation and perform gap, impact, dependency, and process analysis.
• Evaluate proposed solutions against documented business requirements, processes, constraints, and intended outcomes to identify gaps, impacts, dependencies, risks, and areas requiring further analysis or resolution.
• Maintain traceability between business requirements, solution decisions, validation activities, defects, changes, and stakeholder acceptance.
• Develop structured business validation and UAT scenarios and coordinate business testers, schedules, testing activities, test execution, results, and defect tracking.
• Support business and operational readiness for application releases, technology upgrades, infrastructure changes, migrations, and production cutovers.
• Identify impacted applications, business processes, stakeholders, dependencies, and validation requirements.
• Contribute to readiness assessments, cut over planning, stakeholder communications, post-implementation validation, and transition activities.
• Assess user and stakeholder impacts and develop appropriate user documentation, job aids, training materials, release communications, and other adoption resources when needed.
• Independently manage assigned analysis activities and competing priorities while proactively communicating progress, risks, issues, gaps, and recommendations.

Required Technical Skills

• Performing business analysis for application modernization, technology upgrades, infrastructure initiatives, system migrations, or other complex tech
• Requirements elicitation and analysis
• Stakeholder facilitation
• Business and functional requirements documentation
• Current-state and future-state process analysis
• Business rules
• Acceptance criteria
• Gap analysis
• Requirements traceability
• Business validation and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Structured validation scenarios and test cases
• Test execution, validation results, and defect tracking
• Functional UAT, regression testing, business process validation, and data validation
• Business and operational readiness
• Readiness assessments, cut over planning, stakeholder communications, post-implementation validation, and transition activities
• Strong analytical, professional writing, organizational, facilitation, and communication skills
• Independently advancing assigned analysis activities, managing competing priorities, navigating ambiguity, identifying gaps and risks, communicating issues proactively, and developing well-reasoned recommendations

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure DevOps or comparable project/test-management tools
• CAI system or InfoMap
• Supporting internally developed applications, including systems such as the Commission's CAI system or InfoMap, or comparable regulatory or operational systems.
• Supporting regulatory, compliance, or public-sector business processes, including documentation of statutory requirements, business rules, workflows, and operational procedures.