Senior Business Analyst - UiPath

Groundswell•Washington, DC

37d•$99,662 - $140,113•Hybrid

About The Position

Groundswell is seeking a highly skilled Senior Business Analyst with deep expertise in UiPath implementation, automation strategy, and RPA solution delivery. This role will serve as a critical bridge between business stakeholders and technical development teams, ensuring that automation opportunities are well-defined, scalable, and aligned with organizational goals. The ideal candidate has a proven track record leading end-to-end automation initiatives using UiPath and excels at requirements gathering, process mapping, solution design, and stakeholder management.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
A minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Business Analyst, with at least 2 years supporting UiPath implementation or RPA projects.
Experience with Software Development Lifecycle methodologies, deliverables, and controls
Strong understanding of UiPath components: Studio, Orchestrator, Queues, attended/unattended bots.
Demonstrated experience leading requirements gathering sessions, analyzing business flows, and documenting user needs
Well-rounded technology consulting experience desired, to include the ability to define requirements, lead client meetings, facilitate UAT, and conduct training
Experience with Jira
Able to explain difficult concepts to non-technical users
Strong written and verbal communication skills that translate well into requirements baselines that both technical experts and business owners can understand
Experience writing Process Design Documents (PDDs) and working with developers to validate Solution Design Documents (SDDs)
Excellent customer service, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills
Must be a U.S. Citizen per contract requirements
Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Secret security clearance as required by contract
Must be local to the Washington, DC metro area and willing to come onsite as needed

Nice To Haves

UiPath Business Analyst Certification or UiPath Automation Business Analyst training.
Experience with process mining tools (e.g., UiPath Process Mining, Task Mining).
Familiarity with API integrations, workflow tools, or digital transformation initiatives.
Experience in enterprise-level RPA programs with governance, scaling, and COE structures.
General understanding of financial management aspects (i.e., financial operations, internal control, risk management, etc.), particularly in a federal environment.

Responsibilities

Elicit requirements based on document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis
Serve as a liaison between product owners, technology teams and support teams to keep all parties informed and engaged in the requirements gathering and analysis process
Collaborate with developers, product owners and subject matter experts (SMEs) to refine requirements
Develop and maintain Process Design Documents (PDDs) that capture current-state workflows, business rules, decision points, and exception handling for UiPath development.
Partner with UiPath developers to validate Solution Design Documents (SDDs) against PDDs, ensuring traceability and alignment from requirements through delivery.
Drive adoption of agentic automation approaches by identifying where UiPath bots, combined with LLMs, can operate autonomously with governance, escalation, and remediation.
Design and document LLM-enabled user journeys (e.g., natural language intake, contextual grounding, AI copilots) that extend UiPath capabilities and improve user interaction.
Provide detailed, comprehensive, testable and traceable process components in a number of formats including, but not limited to Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Data Requirements, System Software Specifications, Use Cases, etc.
Perform detailed requirements analysis, document processes, and perform some quality assurance/user acceptance testing
Effectively partner with the product owners, technical teams and other relevant stakeholders to help solve problems, especially with requirements conflict or are unclear
Help the project manager ensure the product backlog is updated and supports continuous flow