Business Systems Analysis

Leidos; Shiloh (IL); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Business Analyst to support the GSM-O II contract for DISA. The role requires hybrid onsite/offsite work at multiple locations and a Secret clearance. You will gather requirements, define stories, and drive data governance and reporting initiatives with SMEs and dev teams.

Responsibilities include data extraction, analytics, and coordinating across agile teams. Strong collaboration, documentation, and stakeholder engagement are essential for success in this federal program.

Qualifications

• Must hold US citizenship and an active DoD Secret clearance.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree with substantial relevant experience.
• Experience with agile methodologies (Scrum) in multi-team environments.
• Proficiency with data modeling, data warehousing, and RVTM.
• Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams and customers.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and translate business requirements into functional/technical specs.
• Capture data needs, craft datasets, and build visualizations for reporting.
• Perform data extraction, scrubbing, transformation, and metadata maintenance.
• Track user stories in Jira and align with product owners and SMEs.
• Define as-is vs to-be processes with stakeholders and developers.
• Establish data governance and lifecycle management across domains.
• Lead stakeholder focus groups and analyze qualitative data with surveys.
• Monitor performance, manage delivery milestones, and align priorities.
• Mentor junior team members and ensure project success.
• Collaborate on integration designs with data and external systems.
• Assist with AWS and ServiceNow integrations and agile execution.

Skills

US Citizenship

Secret clearance

Cross-functional collaboration

RVTM requirements tracing

Data modeling concepts

Agile/Scrum experience

Microsoft Office proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree + 12-15 yrs exp

Master's degree + 10-13 yrs exp

Technical Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git

ServiceNow

AWS

Job description

Description

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.

Pay Range

Pay Range $116,350.00 - $210,325.00

About Leidos

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 $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay And Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.