Business Analyst

Integral; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) vesting

Job summary

Integral partners with federal defense, intelligence, and civilian leaders to tackle critical challenges and deliver secure IT solutions. The Senior Business Analyst will gather and refine requirements, write user stories with acceptance criteria, and help define KPIs to support VA product delivery through PI planning and strategic alignment.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration with Product, Architecture, Testing, and System Teams to ensure validated needs and traceable outcomes

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or IT-related field; 6–10 years of experience.
• Experience supporting PI Planning, strategic planning, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and KPI development.
• Experience documenting requirements in enterprise repository tools (e.g., Jira, GitHub, Confluence).
• Experience with requirement elicitation/elaboration; epics/stories; acceptance criteria; business-process modeling; backlog; dependency analysis; UAT/HCD.
• Public Trust clearance or eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Gather, refine, and elaborate functional and non-functional requirements.
• Produce user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog prioritization inputs, and KPI definitions.
• Analyze size, complexity, dependencies, cost impacts, regression implications, and cross-matrixed effects.
• Ensure user stories reflect validated user needs and clear acceptance criteria for testing.
• Contribute to Sprint Plans and documentation of PI deliverables.
• Facilitate requirement intake, dependency identification, and estimation of work complexity.
• Support PI Planning, Intake Review Boards, and strategic planning alignment.

Skills

Requirements gathering

User stories

Backlog prioritization

KPI development

Stakeholder collaboration

Regression impact analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or IT-related field

Tools

Jira

GitHub

Confluence

Job description

Overview

The Senior Business Analyst supports requirements discovery, refinement, and validation activities across the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology (OIT), Product Delivery Services (PDS), Benefits and Memorials (BAM), Memorial and Benefit Services (MBS) product line to deliver secure, reliable, and effective Information Technology (IT) solutions that support the Department’s mission.

Responsibilities

• Gather, refine, and elaborate functional and non-functional requirements
• Produce user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog prioritization inputs, and KPI definitions.
• Perform analysis of size, complexity, dependencies, cost impacts, regression implications, and cross-matrixed effects
• Ensure user stories reflect validated user needs and clear acceptance criteria supporting definitive testing
• Contribute to Sprint Plans and help document deliverables required during the PI.
• Facilitate requirement intake, dependency identification, and estimation of work complexity
• Produce user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog prioritization, and KPI definitions.
• Support PI Planning, Intake Review Boards, and strategic planning alignment.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or an IT-related degree with 6 - 10 years’ experience
• Experience supporting PI Planning, strategic planning, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and KPI development.
• Experience performing requirement estimation, dependency mapping, complexity scoring, and regression impact analysis.
• Experience documenting requirements in enterprise repository tools (e.g., Jira, GitHub, Confluence).
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (Product, Architecture, Testing, Integration, System Teams
• Requirements elicitation/elaboration; epics/stories; acceptance criteria; business-process modeling; backlog; dependency analysis; UAT/HCD
• Public Trust

Preferred:

• Knowledge of NCA memorials: eligibility, burial scheduling, interment, monuments; VA Product Owner support

Company Overview

Integral partners with federal defense, intelligence, and civilian leaders to tackle their most important challenges and deliver positive outcomes. Since our founding in 1998, we have helped clients leverage existing and emerging technologies to transform their enterprises, empower growth, drive innovation, and build sustainable success. The forward-leaning solutions we deliver are tailored to each mission with a focus on keeping our nation safe and secure.

Integral is headquartered in McLean, VA and serves clients throughout the country.

We offer a comprehensive total rewards package including paid parental leave and immediate vesting in our 401(k). Give us a try and become part of a curated group of professionals at Integral Federal!

Our package also includes:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off & Holidays
• Earned Bonuses & Awards
• Professional Training Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veteran/Disability