Senior Business Analyst - UiPath

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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.

• 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

• 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

• UiPath Business Analyst Certification or UiPath Automation…