Business Analyst, Senior

Business Analyst, Senior

Location: Bethesda, MD (2 Days Onsite – May increase as Client needs may change)

Position Title: Business Analyst, Senior

Clearance: Public Trust

LCG is seeking a highly technical Business Analyst, Senior to support the Client with Information Technology and Applications Center (ITAC) in delivering new development, enhancements, and modernization of custom and COTS-based applications. This role is responsible for eliciting and analyzing stakeholder needs, translating them into actionable Agile requirements, defining acceptance criteria, and ensuring requirements are traceable and maintained in the ITAC Jira instance as part of the product backlog and PI/sprint planning artifacts.

The BA will work closely with Product Owners, Solution Delivery Manager (SDM), engineering teams, UX/508 specialists, Security/GRC, Enterprise Architecture (EA), and Enterprise Operations (EOps) to support ITAC’s incremental delivery model (3‑month PIs comprised of 2‑week sprints) and to contribute to ITAC’s modernization strategy focused on cloud‑first and Microsoft Power Platform (MSPP) adoption, portfolio rationalization, consolidation opportunities, and Zero Trust‑aligned requirements.

• Requirements Elicitation & Analysis (Agile + Modernization)
  • Lead requirements elicitation through structured interviews, workshops, process walkthroughs, and document analysis with NIH stakeholders to capture business outcomes, constraints, and success criteria.
  • Translate business objectives into Epics, Features, and User Stories aligned to PI goals and sprint delivery plans; decompose scope iteratively to support sustainable delivery.
  • Capture and validate functional and non‑functional requirements (security controls, performance, scalability, availability, auditability, usability, accessibility/508, operational constraints).
  • Support modernization efforts by identifying overlaps, process inefficiencies, and consolidation opportunities across the application portfolio and recommending streamlined business capabilities and/or LCNC approaches.
• Agile Backlog Management (Jira‑Driven)
  • Own requirements documentation and traceability in ITAC Jira, ensuring backlog items are current, properly linked (Epic > Feature > Story > Task/Defect), prioritized, and refinement‑ready.
  • Write high‑quality stories with clear user value statements, testable acceptance criteria, explicit assumptions and dependencies, and Definition of Ready checks.
  • Support PI planning by preparing backlog refinement artifacts, clarifying scope, and ensuring PI objectives map to approved requirements and backlog items.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to manage priority changes, perform scope clarification, and support formal approvals when backlog changes exceed refinement.
• Process Modeling, Documentation and Business Rules
  • Document current‑state and future‑state workflows using BPM/process mapping techniques (e.g., Visio/Lucidchart), including swim‑lanes, handoffs, decision points, exceptions, and system touchpoints.
  • Produce and maintain business rules catalogs, requirements traceability matrices, and supporting documentation in SharePoint Online per ITAC documentation and deliverables processes.
• Testing and Acceptance (UAT and Quality Alignment)
  • Support development of UAT scope and readiness: define entry/exit criteria, identify test scenarios and acceptance validation steps, coordinate user feedback capture and defect triage with PO/QA.
  • Collaborate with QA/Test Leads to ensure requirements are reflected in test plans and test cases, including automation alignment when appropriate.
  • Ensure accessibility and compliance requirements are incorporated into requirements and test criteria (e.g., 508 considerations).
• Cross‑Functional and Governance Collaboration
  • Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Security/GRC to ensure requirements align with ITAC target architecture standards, Zero Trust direction, and RMF/ATO documentation and compliance needs.
  • Support coordination with EOps/Dev Ops teams for operational constraints and deployment readiness inputs as part of requirements definition and release planning.
  • Contribute to contract deliverables…