Business Analyst/Product Owner

Guidehouse Inc.; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidehouse Inc. seeks a Business/Systems Analyst to support requirements analysis, process definition, and stakeholder engagement for a large-scale GrantSolutions modernization program.

You will elicit, document, and validate business needs, system requirements, workflows, and data exchanges across multiple teams and vendors. Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Federal stakeholders to translate objectives into actionable requirements, maintain analysis artifacts, and support

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of SIX (6) to EIGHT (8) years of experience performing business analysis, systems analysis, requirements management, process analysis, technology delivery support, agile delivery support, or related IT modernization work.
• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD PUBLIC TRUST.

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.
• Maintain analysis artifacts, including requirements documentation, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, traceability matrices, decision logs, interface coordination materials, and stakeholder communications.

Job description

Job Family : Business Systems Analysis

Travel Required : Up to 10%

Clearance Required : Ability to Obtain Public Trust

Job Description Summary

The Business/Systems Analyst will support requirements analysis, process definition, stakeholder engagement, and solution alignment for a large-scale agile software development and platform modernization program supporting the GrantSolutions contract. This role is responsible for eliciting, documenting, analyzing, and validating business needs, system requirements, workflows, data exchanges, integration dependencies, and operational impacts across multiple workstreams and Scrum teams. The Business/Systems Analyst will work closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Technical Leads, enterprise architects, vendors, Federal stakeholders, and end users to translate modernization objectives into clear, actionable requirements and support high-quality outcomes across the system development lifecycle.

What You Will Do

We are seeking a strong Business/Systems Analyst to support requirements, process, and solution analysis for a large-scale GrantSolutions platform modernization effort. This role will work across business stakeholders, Federal users, vendors, architects, and agile delivery teams to define current-state and future-state workflows, clarify business needs, document functional and non-functional requirements, and support incremental capability delivery while maintaining continuity of the legacy system throughout the transition.

The Business/Systems Analyst will help bridge business operations, user needs, system functionality, data exchanges, and technical delivery in an iterative modernization environment. This individual will analyze and document requirements for a modern integration layer that enables new vendor-delivered capabilities to interface with legacy components as the modernized platform is built out over time. The role requires strong analytical judgment and collaboration with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Technical Leads, enterprise architects, vendors, executive leadership, and Federal stakeholders to support alignment with platform architecture, governance standards, release readiness, and program objectives.

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.

What You Will Need

Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred

Bachelor's degree required.

Minimum of SIX (6) to EIGHT (8) years of experience performing business analysis, systems analysis, requirements management, process analysis, technology delivery support, agile delivery support, or related IT modernization work.

Experience supporting platform modernization, system integration, or phased technology delivery efforts, including delivery of new capabilities while legacy systems rem