Business Analyst
iCatalyst•Mclean, VA
•Hybrid
About The Position
We are seeking a Business Analyst to join our growing team in support of our federal program. This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and contribute to impactful, mission-critical initiatives.
Requirements
- Experience working in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and Waterfall project environments.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Strong planning, organization, and project coordination capabilities.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- High attention to detail, accuracy, and quality.
- Adaptable, proactive, and customer-focused mindset.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- 5–8 years of relevant business analysis, requirements, or project coordination experience; experience supporting a federal customer preferred
- Experience with Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Power BI, and Microsoft 365 applications
- Experience supporting federal IT projects or technology modernization initiatives preferred
- Experience supporting multiple projects.
- Experience working with enterprise security and cloud frameworks.
- Proven ability to work in fast-paced, client-focused environments
- Experience supporting federal programs preferred
- BS/BA degree in business, information systems, a STEM discipline, or a related field, with 5–8 years of relevant experience; equivalent experience may be considered
- U.S. Citizenship required
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance
- Ability to successfully pass a federal background check
Nice To Haves
- CAPM, CSM, SAFe, ECBA, CCBA, or comparable business analysis or Agile certification preferred
Responsibilities
- Support stakeholder engagement activities, including workshops, interviews, and working sessions with program offices, to understand business problems, elicit needs, and document success criteria
- Contribute to roadmaps and implementation plans for AI-enabled capabilities by documenting business needs, dependencies, expected outcomes, and measures of value
- Facilitate working sessions with program offices to translate business needs into clear, actionable, and measurable requirements
- Ensure requirements traceability to strategic objectives and measurable business outcomes
- Identify, evaluate, and prioritize AI use cases based on business impact, feasibility, and data readiness
- Facilitate cross-functional discussions to align problem definitions, priorities, requirements, and success measures
- Analyze, refine, and document business and system requirements, including functional needs, data sources, process flows, and cross-system integration requirements
- Facilitate collaboration between business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure shared understanding of priorities, solution approaches, dependencies, risks, and implementation objectives
- Support initiatives from problem definition through implementation by maintaining continuity across requirements, development, testing, and deployment activities
- Support development and maintenance of work plans, schedules, estimates, status reports, action items, and other project documentation
- Define and track success metrics tied to business outcomes (not just delivery milestones)
- Identify, document, monitor, and escalate project risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies
- Ensure adherence to best practices, quality standards and reviews of project deliverables
- Provide business analysis support to project teams and seek guidance on complex technical or programmatic issues as needed
- Provide support and expertise in assigned domain
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions
- Ensure adherence to security, compliance, and quality standards
- Support continuous improvement and innovation initiatives
- Special projects as needed
Benefits
- variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- a dental plan option
- a vision plan
- a 401(k)-plan offering the ability to contribute both pre- and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- paid time off plans, including vacation, sick, 11 Federal holidays, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- short and long-term disability benefits
- life, accidental death and dismemberment, insurance
- Phone and internet Reimbursement for eligible employees
- Transportation Support (Uber rides to & from HQ to select locations)
- Training & Education Assistance (per eligibility)
- Annual Wellness Benefit
- Social and Community giveback
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
