Business Analyst (Senior)

CACI International•Ashburn, VA

13d•$103,800 - $218,100

About The Position

CACI is seeking a Senior Business Analyst for the Global Mission Operations Support (GMOS) contract, supporting the Department of State. The role supports national security through IT solutions and contributes to modernizing and maintaining applications and infrastructure using an integrated IT Service Management approach. The Senior Business Analyst will guide a high-performing team and work with portfolio teams and executive stakeholders to support strategic planning, delivery, measurement, and continuous improvement across a complex IT portfolio. The position requires an active Top Secret clearance and may involve up to 10% local travel.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience in related fields such as business analysis, systems analysis, portfolio management, agile transformation, or IT program management; equivalencies are considered.
Active Top Secret clearance.
Proven experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), portfolio management, agile release train coordination, and program increment planning.
Experience leading cross-functional teams, facilitating large-scale planning events, and coordinating multiple agile teams across complex IT portfolios.
Strong strategic thinking and analytical capabilities.
Advanced proficiency with agile portfolio management tools such as Jira Align, Rally, or VersionOne.
Leadership experience planning and leading major business analysis initiatives and functioning as a subject matter expert; may supervise staff.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience supporting federal agencies, especially the Department of State.
Professional certifications such as SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), SAFe Agilist (SA), Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), or PMI Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP).
Experience implementing SAFe at the portfolio level, including lean portfolio management, strategic themes, and value stream identification.
Knowledge of Federal IT investment management, enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or FEAF, and DevSecOps implementation in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

Lead development of portfolio-level contract status reports by synthesizing multi-team metrics, tracking epic progress, and providing strategic insights to executive stakeholders.
Coordinate and facilitate weekly planning sessions, PI planning events, and big room planning activities with portfolio teams using Kanban boards and integrated dashboards.
Ensure trip reports capture strategic portfolio outcomes, including architecture runway planning decisions, solution validation findings, and alignment with product vision.
Architect and implement portfolio-level integrated dashboards for real-time visibility into program increment execution, feature delivery flow efficiency, and value stream metrics.
Maintain quarterly spend plans as living documents using rolling-wave projections, team velocity-based forecasting, and variance analysis.
Conduct operational readiness reviews for major product releases, facilitate solution demonstrations, and drive portfolio-level continuous improvement initiatives.
Implement performance measurement frameworks, including NPS, lead time and cycle time analysis, flow efficiency metrics, and quality indicators.
Evaluate portfolio strategy and prioritize product opportunities using WSJF analysis, cost-of-delay calculations, and business value assessments.
Translate enterprise architecture vision into actionable portfolio team enabler epics and align business capabilities with technical implementation strategies.
Assess infrastructure modernization opportunities, develop migration strategies using minimum viable architecture approaches, and provide recommendations for cloud adoption.