Business Analyst II

ATTAINX INC•Arlington, VA

3h•$89,000 - $98,000•Hybrid

About The Position

AttainX is seeking a Business Analyst II to support the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Infrastructure and Risk Modeling Environment (IRME). This role connects mission stakeholders and technical teams by assessing business needs, workflows, adoption, and modernization options. The analyst supports project planning and informed decisions for risk modeling and analytical capabilities.

Requirements

A bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, management, or a related field is preferred; equivalent education, training, and relevant experience will be considered.
2-4 years of related experience in business systems analysis, requirements analysis, financial analysis for IT projects, including stakeholder interviews, process mapping, and gap analysis.
Ability to translate business needs into requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Experience preparing cost-benefit analyses, evaluating alternatives, and tracking project costs, schedules, or performance.
Familiarity with agile, iterative, and waterfall delivery and requirements traceability.
Ability to analyze technology utilization, user adoption, data sharing, and opportunities to reuse existing capabilities.
Superior analytical, facilitation, documentation, and communication skills.
Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a DHS CISA IRME Public Trust clearance.

Nice To Haves

Federal IT experience and familiarity with DHS governance, geospatial systems, or risk analytics are preferred.

Responsibilities

Interview stakeholders and facilitate working sessions to document business objectives, current workflows, pain points, and modernization goals.
Analyze existing and needed capabilities; document gaps, business requirements, and candidate system improvements.
Serve as a liaison between users and technical teams, clarify requirements, and support prioritization of approved capabilities.
Evaluate modernization options, costs, benefits, risks, and resource needs; provide inputs to the phased roadmap and milestone decisions.
Support cost, schedule, and performance tracking; identify variances and escalate issues to the Project Manager.
Analyze technology and data utilization, adoption, and program impacts; help define and track modernization success measures.
Identify collaboration opportunities, best practices, authoritative data sources, and reusable DHS or interagency analytical and geospatial capabilities.
Prepare reports, briefings, meeting minutes, action logs, and governance documentation supporting enterprise architecture and investment planning.
Coordinate with the Requirements Analyst to maintain traceability and assess the business impact of proposed changes.
Support outreach, feature announcements, user guides, webinars, and training; gather user feedback and document improvements.
Maintain project knowledge repositories and support transition and knowledge transfer while protecting sensitive information.
Other related duties as assigned.