Business Analyst, Core Engineering

MainframeMaster; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

PenFed is hiring a Hybrid Business Analyst, Core Engineering in Tysons, Virginia, to drive strategic business analysis, incident triaging, and system testing for money movement infrastructure across Fedwire, ACH, and card networks. The role bridges legacy COBOL with modern software solutions, extracting requirements from SMEs and translating them into precise specs.

The analyst will pioneer AI methodologies within IT, leveraging ROVO for rapid requirement generation and deploying AI-validated

Responsibilities

• Support multiple projects by completing and updating project documentation, managing project scope, adjusting schedules as needed, determining daily priorities, and ensuring efficient, on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; follow proper escalation paths, and leverage AI for requirement gathering, analysis, and testing.
• Understand and develop process flows related to IT applications and core engineering systems, including key decision points; analyze process flows with the goal of identifying opportunities for improvement, re-engineering, and/or elimination while utilizing a high level of expertise in ACH, Wires, and Money Movement networks.
• Coordinate the evaluation, scope, and completion of new development/enhancement requests; maintain a sharp ability to distinguish complex system behaviors and accurately classify baseline requirements versus system defects.
• Deploy advanced AI methodologies to be able to generate requirements using ROVO from raw concepts, transforming unstructured business notes into structured requirements.
• Build test scripts using AI against the requirements and remain well versed in using MS VS Copilot to accelerate software quality assurance cycles.
• Perform both certification and/or user acceptance testing and/or coordination for changes affecting the assigned stakeholders, directly managing Requirement, Incident, and Hogan testing on COBOL and similar legacy languages.
• Effectively function as the liaison between the application development teams by maintaining clear, effective communication with business SMEs to map IT requirements precisely.
• Research, document, and troubleshoot issues within the platform assigned, executing comprehensive Business Analysis, triaging, and testing to ensure fixes adequately address root issues and updates are communicated with affected users.
• Work with business users and IT teams comprised of varying backgrounds to produce deliverables which meet business needs whilst aligning with the direction or vision of the strategy team.
• Support occasional late-night deployments for production validation to guarantee stable upgrades across core financial legacy networks.
• Conduct stakeholder demos, presentations, and assist in business development initiatives; produce proofs of concept to better demonstrate potential and/or proposed solutions to both business stakeholders and IT review boards, ensuring alignment with overall organizational vision and immediate business needs.
• Complete ongoing extracurricular research, training, and other activities to keep apprised of the latest industry trends, legacy platform optimization, and modern AI analysis best practices.

Job description

PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Business Analyst, Core Engineering at our Tysons, Virginia location. This IT position drives strategic business analysis, incident triaging, and system testing for core money movement infrastructure across Fedwire, ACH, and Consumer Banking networks including Credit and Debit Cards. Tasked with bridging the gap between legacy COBOL frameworks and modern software solutions, the analyst extracts strategic requirements from business SMEs and translates them into precise system specifications. The successful candidate will pioneer AI methodologies within the IT team, leveraging ROVO for rapid requirement generation and deploying AI-validated test scripts to accelerate delivery cycles.

Responsibilities

• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties, and the position will perform other duties as assigned.
• Support multiple projects by completing and updating project documentation, managing project scope, adjusting schedules as needed, determining daily priorities, and ensuring efficient, on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; follow proper escalation paths, and leverage AI for requirement gathering, analysis, and testing.
• Understand and develop process flows related to IT applications and core engineering systems, including key decision points; analyze process flows with the goal of identifying opportunities for improvement, re-engineering, and/or elimination while utilizing a high level of expertise in ACH, Wires, and Money Movement networks.
• Coordinate the evaluation, scope, and completion of new development/enhancement requests; maintain a sharp ability to distinguish complex system behaviors and accurately classify baseline requirements versus system defects.
• Deploy advanced AI methodologies to be able to generate requirements using ROVO from raw concepts, transforming unstructured business notes into structured requirements.
• Build test scripts using AI against the requirements and remain well versed in using MS VS Copilot to accelerate software quality assurance cycles.
• Perform both certification and/or user acceptance testing and/or coordination for changes affecting the assigned stakeholders, directly managing Requirement, Incident, and Hogan testing on COBOL and similar legacy languages.
• Effectively function as the liaison between the application development teams by maintaining clear, effective communication with business SMEs to map IT requirements precisely.
• Research, document, and troubleshoot issues within the platform assigned, executing comprehensive Business Analysis, triaging, and testing to ensure fixes adequately address root issues and updates are communicated with affected users.
• Work with business users and IT teams comprised of varying backgrounds to produce deliverables which meet business needs whilst aligning with the direction or vision of the strategy team.
• Support occasional late-night deployments for production validation to guarantee stable upgrades across core financial legacy networks.
• Conduct stakeholder demos, presentations, and assist in business development initiatives; produce proofs of concept to better demonstrate potential and/or proposed solutions to both business stakeholders and IT review boards, ensuring alignment with overall organizational vision and immediate business needs.
• Complete ongoing extracurricular research, training, and other activities to keep apprised of the latest industry trends, legacy platform optimization, and modern AI analysis best practices.