Business Analyst

MacMore LLC.; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

MacMore LLC. seeks an Experienced Business Analyst for a pending FCA contract in the D.C. metro area, primarily focused at the FCA headquarters in McLean, VA.

The role is part-time and involves coordinating with legal, compliance, and technical teams to map current processes and define future eDiscovery workflows. The analyst will document end-to-end workflows, assess data sources, controls, and retention policies, and develop costed implementation plans across short-, mid-, and long-term

Qualifications

• Experience interviewing and managing stakeholders.
• Experience in requirements gathering and developing procedures.
• Experience detailing workflow design.
• Experience in business process mapping.
• Experience in change management.

Responsibilities

• Conduct stakeholder interviews to understand workflows, constraints, and compliance requirements.
• Document current roles, responsibilities and decision-making authority; analyze cross-functional dependencies and escalation points.
• Identify system and data sources contributing data to discovery; validate integrations, access controls, audit logging, and chain-of-custody.
• Review legal hold policies, retention schedules, data governance standards and privacy requirements; review SOPs for matter intake, preservation, collection, processing, review and production.
• Document the current end-to-end eDiscovery lifecycle; define target workflows aligned to legal, compliance, and privacy requirements.
• Develop timelines for short-, mid-, and long-term improvements with resource needs and estimated costs.
• Assess tools; recommend enhancements and new toolsets for preservation and collections; ensure FedRAMP and FCA cybersecurity compliance for cloud solutions.
• Prepare deployment documentation to help FCA staff plan and allocate resources.
• Draft SOPs and system-specific playbooks; create operational templates; conduct stakeholder reviews for validation.

Skills

Stakeholder interviews

Requirements gathering

Workflow design

Business process mapping

Change management

Job description

MacMore is looking to fill a part-time position for an Experienced Business Analyst for a pending contract award at the Farm Credit Administration.

Location: Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, with primary concentration at the FCA headquarters office in McLean, Virginia

Business Analyst

Business Analyst is a key personnel position and shall perform support activities according to the requirements of the SOW.

Responsibilities

• Conduct stakeholder interviews to understand workflows, operational constraints, and compliance requirements. Document current roles, responsibilities and decision-making authority. Analyze cross-functional dependencies and escalation points.
• Identify system and data sources that contribute data to discovery. Validate existing integrations, access controls, audit logging, and chain-of-custody mechanisms. Inventory data types, storage locations, custodial patterns, retention schedules, and regulatory boundaries.
• Review current legal hold policies, retention schedules, data governance standards and privacy requirements. Review existing SOPs related to matter intake, preservations, collection, processing, review and production.
• Document the current end-to-end eDiscovery lifecycle.
• Define target eDiscovery workflows aligned to legal, compliance, and privacy requirements. Develop recommendations for future‑state data flows and toolsets, access controls, logging and system integrations. Define requirements for preservation, collection, analytics, review, and production.
• Develop implementation timelines including short‑term, mid‑term and long‑term improvements, resource needs and estimated costs.
• Assess existing tools and recommend feature enhancements where applicable. Evaluate and recommend new toolsets to meet preservation and collections needs for on‑premises, cloud and mobile data sources. Identify automation and integration opportunities. Any recommended cloud solutions must be FedRAMP authorized and comply with FCA and cybersecurity requirements.
• Prepare documentation that details the deployment requirements sufficiently enough to allow FCA staff to appropriately plan and allocate resources.
• Draft detailed SOPs for every stage of the eDiscovery process. Develop system‑specific playbooks. Draft operational templates.
• Conduct document reviews with stakeholders for validation and finalization of SOPs, playbooks and operational templates.

Required Qualifications

• Experience interviewing and managing stakeholders
• Experience in requirements gathering and developing procedures
• Experience detailing workflow design
• Experience in business process mapping
• Experience in change management

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of recent experience (education may not be substituted for experience) that includes:
  • Minimum 5 years of experience as an eDiscovery Business Analyst
• Knowledge of legal tech tools available in the market, including but not limited to Microsoft Purview and Relativity.
• Experience leading User Acceptance Testing for eDiscovery tools and platforms
• Experience working with both legal and technical teams
• Experience and working knowledge of Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) standards
• Proficient in technical writing and documentation
• Experience in data governance, retention and data systems
• Experience with Microsoft Purview and related Microsoft 365 compliance tools
• Experience with legal hold, preservation, and data‑collection best practices
• Experience in information security, access control and auditing practices