Business Analyst

i3, LLC; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

i3, LLC in Chantilly, VA is seeking a senior BA to drive requirements gathering and AI-enabled product delivery. You will coordinate with federal clients, Product Owners, developers, and UX designers to craft user stories and ensure alignment with mission objectives and standards.

The role emphasizes documentation, traceability, and agile practice, with a focus on AI-driven automation and compliant solutions across on-site environments.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of experience in requirements analysis and agile delivery.
• Top Secret Clearance required.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and analyze requirements from federal clients and stakeholders.
• Write clear, testable user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and daily standups.
• Validate user story completion and ensure acceptance criteria are met.
• Draft functional specifications, business process diagrams, use cases, and traceability matrices.
• Facilitate communication between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Conduct gap analyses between current and desired capabilities.
• Support user acceptance testing with test scenarios and results.
• Analyze workflows to identify AI-driven automation opportunities.

Skills

Requirements gathering

User interviews

Agile SCRUM

Backlog refinement

Story writing

Stakeholder mgmt

UAT support

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

TypeScript

React

Python

FastAPI

LanceDB

PostgreSQL

Docker

Temporal.io

Lance graph

Job description

Minimum 8 Years Experience

Top Secret Clearance required

Chantilly, VA on -site

Bachelors required

Minimum 8 Years Experience

You will facilitate requirements gathering sessions, conduct user interviews, and analyze business processes to identify opportunities for AI-driven solutions. Working closely with Scrum Masters and development teams during sprint planning, you will write clear, testable user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria. You will participate in backlog refinement, validate user story completion, and ensure deliverables meet stakeholder expectations. Your documentation skills will be critical as you produce functional specifications, business process diagrams, use cases, and requirements traceability matrices supporting both development activities and compliance documentation.

Collaborating with Product Owners, developers, UX designers, and federal clients, you will prioritize features, resolve requirement ambiguities, and facilitate communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders. You will support user acceptance testing, gather feedback, and ensure solutions align with mission objectives and federal standards.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and analyze business and functional requirements from federal clients, end users, and stakeholders through interviews, workshops, and documentation review.
• Translate complex requirements into clear, concise user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria for agile development teams.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and daily standups to support agile development processes.
• Validate user story completion and ensure deliverables meet acceptance criteria and stakeholder expectations.
• Draft functional specifications, business requirements documents, process flows, use cases, and requirements traceability matrices.
• Facilitate communication between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring shared understanding of requirements and constraints.
• Conduct gap analysis identifying differences between current state and desired future state capabilities.
• Support user acceptance testing by developing test scenarios, coordinating testing activities, and documenting results.
• Analyze business processes and workflows to identify opportunities for AI-driven automation and optimization.

Unique Skills / Technical Requirements

• In-house custom developed application
• Advanced AI, GenAI & Multi-Model Engineering
• Multi-model and multi-modality orchestration (reasoning, perception, memory, tool execution)
• Temporal, spatial, geographic, quantitative, and computer vision AI implementation
• Named Entity Recognition (NER), contextual entity extraction, and resolution
• Multi-step retrieval and structured output generation
• Complex data parsing and streamlined ingestion
• Deep source citation and traceable analytic outputs
• Data Architecture & ETL
• Vector, graph, and multi database orchestration
• Automated ETL pipeline creation, scheduling, and optimization
• Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) at the data layer
• Provenance and end to end data lineage tracking
• Schema aligned ingestion and normalization of diverse structured and unstructured data
• Enterprise Infrastructure & CrossDomain Solutions
• Air gapped, hybrid, and on premise operational environments
• Container orchestration and distributed systems management (Kubernetes)
• Locally hosted GPU servers and hyperconverged nodes
• Multitenant CrossDomain Solutions (CDS)
• Application Development & Integration
• UI, backend, and middleware engineering (TypeScript, React, Python, FastAPI, LanceDB, lance graph, PostgreSQL, Temporal.io, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Integration of reasoning components, retrieval systems, databases, and AI / GenAI services
• Use of modern programming languages and frameworks