Senior Business Analyst

Integral Federal • Tysons, VA

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About The Position

The Senior Business Analyst leads requirements discovery, refinement, and validation activities across the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology (OIT), Product Delivery Services (PDS), Benefits and Memorials (BAM), Memorial and Benefit Services (MBS) product line to deliver secure, reliable, and effective Information Technology (IT) solutions that support the Department’s mission. Responsibilities include serving as a key facilitator between business stakeholders, Product Owners, Agile teams, and end users, ensuring requirements are clear, testable, strategically aligned, and ready for execution. The role also leads Human-Centered Design (HCD) engagements, supports PI Planning, intake processes, and KPI/baseline development. Key activities involve gathering, refining, and elaborating functional and non-functional requirements, producing user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog prioritization inputs, and KPI definitions. Maintaining alignment and traceability between requirements, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and Definition of Done is crucial. The analyst will perform analysis of size, complexity, dependencies, cost impacts, regression implications, and cross-matrixed effects. They will conduct HCD sessions, user interviews, user story collaboration, usability testing, and user training feedback activities to ensure optimal feature design. Ensuring user stories reflect validated user needs and clear acceptance criteria supporting definitive testing is a core function. The role contributes to Sprint Plans and helps document deliverables required during the PI. Facilitating requirement intake, dependency identification, and estimation of work complexity are also key. Producing user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog prioritization, and KPI definitions, along with supporting PI Planning, Intake Review Boards, and strategic planning alignment, are essential. Creating Sprint Plans and contributing to PI artifacts are also part of the responsibilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or an IT-related degree with 6 - 10 years’ experience
• Experience conducting HCD activities, including user interviews, usability validation, and story collaboration
• Experience supporting PI Planning, strategic planning, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and KPI development
• Experience performing requirement estimation, dependency mapping, complexity scoring, and regression impact analysis
• Experience documenting requirements in enterprise repository tools (e.g., Jira, GitHub, Confluence)
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (Product, Architecture, Testing, Integration, System Teams)
• Requirements elicitation/elaboration
• Epics/stories
• Acceptance criteria
• Business-process modeling
• Backlog
• Dependency analysis
• UAT/HCD

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of NCA memorials: eligibility, burial scheduling, interment, monuments
• VA Product Owner support

Responsibilities

• Serves as a key facilitator between business stakeholders, Product Owners, Agile teams, and end users—ensuring requirements are clear, testable, strategically aligned, and ready for execution
• Leads Human ‑ Centered Design (HCD) engagements
• Supports PI Planning, intake processes, and KPI/baseline development
• Gather, refine, and elaborate functional and non-functional requirements
• Produce user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog prioritization inputs, and KPI definitions
• Maintain alignment and traceability between requirements, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and Definition of Done
• Perform analysis of size, complexity, dependencies, cost impacts, regression implications, and cross-matrixed effects
• Conduct HCD sessions, user interviews, user story collaboration, usability testing, and user training feedback activities to ensure optimal feature design
• Ensure user stories reflect validated user needs and clear acceptance criteria supporting definitive testing
• Contribute to Sprint Plans and help document deliverables required during the PI
• Facilitate requirement intake, dependency identification, and estimation of work complexity
• Produce user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog prioritization, and KPI definitions
• Support PI Planning, Intake Review Boards, and strategic planning alignment
• Create Sprint Plans and contribute to PI artifacts

Benefits

• paid parental leave
• immediate vesting in our 401(k)
• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off & Holidays
• Earned Bonuses & Awards
• Professional Training Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior