Business Systems Analysis

Leidos; Fort Meade (MD); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Business Analyst to support the GSM-O II contract at DISA. The role focuses on eliciting and translating business needs into actionable stories for an agile team, collaborating with product owners, SMEs, and developers, and maintaining comprehensive documentation and data governance.

The candidate will work in a hybrid environment with onsite support at Fort Meade and other DISA facilities, and must have a Secret clearance to start.

Qualifications

• Requires US Citizenship.
• Must hold an active DoD Secret clearance.
• Hybrid onsite/offsite support to Fort Meade, MD, Scott AFB, SATX DISA facility, or Ogden, UT.
• Bachelor’s Degree with 12–15 years of relevant experience or Master’s with 10–13 years of prior relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for business processes and translate them into functional/technical requirements for the development team.
• Craft data sets and visualizations to enhance reporting and analytics quality.
• Perform data extraction, scrubbing, transformation, and maintain metadata and data dictionaries.
• Track user stories in Jira and guide the team through acceptance criteria.
• Establish governance and lifecycle management across data domains and conduct stakeholder training.

Skills

Requirements analysis

Stakeholder communication

Agile Scrum

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

JIRA

Git

Confluence

ServiceNow

AWS

Job description

Job Summary

The Digital Sector has a career opportunity for a Business Analyst supporting the Global Solutions Management – Operations II (GSM-O II) contract at DISA. This contract includes the Operations, Sustainment, Maintenance, Repair, and Defense of the Defense Information System Network (DISN) within the DOD Information Network (DODIN) in support of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). It also includes support to other key tasks for DISA, including the transformation of DISA’s operational mission through innovation, and support to DISA’s mission partners. Candidate must be able to support a hybrid onsite/offsite schedule at Fort Meade, Scott AFB, SATX DISA facility, or Hill AFB, and at a minimum, a Secret clearance is required upon the start of employment. The Business Analyst will work directly with customers to capture business and user requirements and communicate those requirements to the team. This role will define detailed stories and epics, with applicable acceptance criteria in collaboration with product owners, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and development teams where the candidate will facilitate meetings with internal technical and operational teams. In addition, this role will be responsible for authoring content and peer reviewing a wide array of documents, including functional, technical, training as well as planning and roadmaps. The successful candidate primary responsibility will: Elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for business processes, accurately translating them into functional and technical requirements for the development team. Crafting and generating data sets and visualizations as necessary, leveraging best practices to enhance reporting and analytics quality. Performing various data-related tasks such as extraction, scrubbing, and transformation, along with maintaining metadata and data dictionaries Assistance pinpointing data issues, implement data fixes, perform manual extracts, etc. Tracking, monitoring and making updates to user stories directly in the Atlassian Jira tool. Identifying the ‘As-Is’ process and working with the Product Owner, SMEs, and developers to create the ‘To-Be’ process. Establishing governance and lifecycle management processes for all relevant data domains. Conduct focus groups to generate in-depth qualitative data. Analyze focus group data in conjunction with survey findings to derive comprehensive insights. Establish clear expectations, monitor performance, and hold teams accountable for meeting commitments, milestones, and delivery objectives. Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, leadership, and key stakeholders to ensure alignment on priorities and expectations. Oversee staffing, workload distribution, and resource utilization to ensure teams have the capacity and skills necessary to meet objectives. Direct, manage, and mentor junior team members to foster professional growth and ensure project success. Execution of engineering activities, requirements analysis, requirements traceability matrix, implementation planning, third party coordination, integration and test, documentation, deployment, and system assessment. Assuming ultimate accountability for the accuracy of all pertinent data, executing any necessary data updates endorsed by leadership. Collaborating and partnering with relevant business processes and digital solutions to ensure alignment with strategic roadmaps and seamless integration of existing data domains and business processes. Developing, documenting, and communicating the purpose of all relevant data attributes, definitions, and acceptable values to stakeholders, ensuring organizational alignment, and understanding Designing, implementing, and operating necessary business processes to monitor data health, swiftly identify and remediate data health issues, and visually manage performance metrics across management levels. Conducting stakeholder training as needed and participating in data governance forums as required. Experience collaborating with developers on designing & developing integrations that can integrate Master Data with other systems. Experience in implementing and working with AWS and ServiceNow Experience working in an agile environment with cross-functional teams. Must be able to work independently and in a team environment with limited direction to complete work assignments accurately and on time, prioritizing multiple requests for competing projects and day-to-day customer support Participate in User Acceptance testing and recommend improvements. Comfortable working in a dynamic Agile environment.

Basic Qualifications

• Requires a US Citizenship.
• Must hold an active DoD Secret clearance.
• Must be able to commute to Scott AFB, IL, Ft. Meade, MD, SATX DISA facility, or Ogden, UT for hybrid onsite/offsite support.
• Bachelor’s Degree with 12 – 15 years of relevant experience or master’s with 10 -13 years of prior relevant experience.
• Additional years of work experience in lieu of degree is acceptable.
• Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
• Maintain requirements traceability for software systems (RVTM).
• In-depth knowledge of data modeling, data architecture, and data warehousing.
• Successful and demonstrated experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum).

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to ServiceNow applications like Telecommunication Management System (TSM), Telecommunications Network Inventory (TNI), Order Management Telecommunications (OMT) modules, etc.
• Experience with JIRA, Git and Confluence.
• Understanding of ITIL foundation or ITIL certified.
• AWS cloud and ServiceNow certifications.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline.
• Experience working with large software systems including hardware integration and test.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary technical development teams.
• Experience using SAFe as the agile development methodology.
• Experience moving from a legacy application to a new application.
• Experience applying test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality by the team.
• Experience using Kanban to improve flow on support teams.
• Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps and CI/CD implementation.

Company Culture

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Pay Range and Benefits

Pay Range: Pay Range $116,350.00 - $210,325.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

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Commitment and Diversity

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