Agile Business & Systems Analyst: Platform Modernization

Guidehouse

Tysons (VA)

On-site

USD 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Guidehouse seeks a skilled Business/Systems Analyst to support requirements analysis, process definition, stakeholder engagement, and solution alignment for a large-scale GrantSolutions platform modernization program. You will elicit, document, and validate business needs, system requirements, workflows, data exchanges, and integration dependencies across multiple workstreams and Scrum teams.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, technical leads, enterprise architects,

Qualifications

Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust.
Bachelor’s degree required.
Experience with requirements analysis in large-scale modernization projects.

Responsibilities

Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business, functional, non-functional, data, reporting, workflow, and integration requirements for a large-scale platform modernization program delivered through iterative agile execution.
Develop current-state and future-state process flows, business rules, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, interface requirements, and operational impact analyses to support incremental modernization.
Support modernization workstreams across the application development lifecycle, including integration-layer delivery, legacy coexistence, testing, deployment, training, and rollout activities.
Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Technical Leads, enterprise architects, vendors, and Federal stakeholders to refine backlogs, clarify scope, manage requirements traceability, and support prioritization of incremental capabilities.
Analyze integration-related needs, including APIs, data exchange patterns, interface dependencies, shared services, system handoffs, and interactions between legacy components and modernized capabilities.
Identify and document legacy coexistence considerations, including workflow continuity, system-of-record decisions, duplicate processing paths, data synchronization, testing scenarios, operational readiness, and transition impacts.
Support requirements reviews, design discussions, sprint planning, backlog grooming, demonstrations, user acceptance testing, defect triage, change impact assessments, and release readiness activities.
Maintain analysis artifacts, including requirements documentation, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, traceability matrices, decision logs, interface coordination materials, and stakeholder communications.
Translate technical integration concepts, modernization constraints, and delivery dependencies into clear business language for technical and non-technical audiences.
Foster strong working relationships across Federal stakeholders, vendors, delivery teams, architects, and partners to support coordinated modernization outcomes and long-term platform success.