Business Analyst Role

Peregrine Advisors LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Peregrine Advisors LLC is seeking a Business Analyst who can translate complex processes into clear requirements and testable rules. You’ll map current and future states, define acceptance criteria, and maintain traceability across designs, releases, tests, and outcomes. Strong writing and facilitation skills are essential in this role.

You will bridge business and technical teams, ensuring precise, testable understanding and support for change control in regulated or mission-critical work.

Qualifications

• A working foundation in requirements elicitation, business process analysis, workflow mapping, or systems analysis.
• The ability to translate stakeholder needs into clear requirements, user stories, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience facilitating interviews, workshops, reviews, and decisions across business and technical participants.
• The discipline to maintain traceability and support testing, implementation, and change control.
• Strong analytical writing, structured problem solving, and attention to accuracy in regulated or mission-critical work.

Responsibilities

• Current-state and future-state process maps that reveal decisions, handoffs, delays, exceptions, and control points.
• Business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, business rules, and acceptance criteria that delivery teams can act on.
• Requirements traceability that connects mission needs to designs, releases, tests, and implemented outcomes.
• User acceptance testing plans, scenarios, and evidence that demonstrate whether the solution works as intended.
• Decision records, data definitions, and operating documentation that remain useful after implementation.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Business process analysis

Workflow mapping

Systems analysis

Requirements translation

Facilitation

Traceability

Analytical writing

Job description

Business Analysts make complicated work understandable enough to improve. They learn how a process, service, decision, or system actually operates, identify where needs and constraints collide, and translate that understanding into requirements and business rules a delivery team can build and test.

Description

The work

Business Analysts make complicated work understandable enough to improve. They learn how a process, service, decision, or system actually operates, identify where needs and constraints collide, and translate that understanding into requirements and business rules a delivery team can build and test.

What You'll Build

• Current-state and future-state process maps that reveal decisions, handoffs, delays, exceptions, and control points.
• Business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, business rules, and acceptance criteria that delivery teams can act on.
• Requirements traceability that connects mission needs to designs, releases, tests, and implemented outcomes.
• User acceptance testing plans, scenarios, and evidence that demonstrate whether the solution works as intended.
• Decision records, data definitions, and operating documentation that remain useful after implementation.

Who You Are

You are curious about how work really happens, especially when the official process and the lived process differ. You listen carefully, ask the question behind the first answer, and write with enough precision that ambiguity becomes a decision instead of a defect.

You enjoy being the bridge without becoming a messenger. You understand the substance, challenge assumptions on both sides, and help the team reach a shared, testable understanding.

What You Bring

• A working foundation in requirements elicitation, business process analysis, workflow mapping, or systems analysis.
• The ability to translate stakeholder needs into clear requirements, user stories, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience facilitating interviews, workshops, reviews, and decisions across business and technical participants.
• The discipline to maintain traceability and support testing, implementation, and change control.
• Strong analytical writing, structured problem solving, and attention to accuracy in regulated or mission-critical work.

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