Business Systems Analyst

General Dynamics IT; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 106,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Comprehensive health and wellness

Internal mobility team

Paid education and certifications

Cutting-edge technology

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) has an opening for a Business Systems Analyst to support the United States Postal Service in Merrifield, VA. You will define, document, coordinate, and track software changes without doing development.

You'll gather and validate business requirements, coordinate with stakeholders and technical teams, and support testing, change-management, and traceability from requirements through deployment. U.S. residency is required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in business analysis, business systems analysis, software change management, requirements management, or related field
• Bachelor's degree in business analysis, information systems, CS, business administration, or related field; if no degree, 4 further years of relevant experience

Responsibilities

• Gather, document, and validate business requirements
• Coordinate discussions between business stakeholders and technical teams
• Document requested software changes
• Support change intake, prioritization, and tracking
• Perform business and operational impact analysis
• Identify affected applications, processes, interfaces, users, and stakeholders
• Coordinate requirements reviews and approvals
• Support traceability from requirements through testing and implementation
• Develop business process documentation, use cases, and acceptance criteria
• Support user acceptance testing and defect clarification
• Coordinate stakeholder communications and status updates
• Track decisions, assumptions, risks, actions, dependencies
• Support change-management and implementation activities
• Ensure business needs and approved changes are clearly communicated to technical teams

Skills

POS experience

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder management

Impact analysis

Documentation

Test support

Change management

Traceability

Jira/ServiceNow

Written/verbal skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in business analysis, information systems, CS, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Teams

Outlook

Jira

ServiceNow

Job description

Type of Requisition: Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: MBI (T2)

Job Family: Process and Operational Efficiency

Job Qualifications:

Skills: Business, Continuous Process Improvement (CPI), Technical Processes Certifications: None Experience: 8 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: No

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Business Systems Analyst supporting the United States Postal Service. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. The Business Systems Analyst will help define, document, coordinate, and track software changes, but they will not be responsible for performing software development.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

Responsibilities will include:

• Gathering, documenting, and validating business requirements
• Coordinating discussions between business stakeholders and technical teams
• Documenting requested software changes
• Supporting change intake, prioritization, and tracking
• Performing business and operational impact analysis
• Identifying affected applications, processes, interfaces, users, and stakeholders
• Coordinating requirements reviews and approvals
• Supporting traceability from requirements through testing and implementation
• Developing business process documentation, use cases, and acceptance criteria
• Supporting user acceptance testing and defect clarification
• Coordinating stakeholder communications and status updates
• Tracking decisions, assumptions, risks, actions, and dependencies
• Supporting change-management and implementation activities
• Ensuring that business needs and approved changes are clearly communicated to technical teams

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education

Bachelor's degree in business analysis, information systems, computer science, business administration, or a related field.

NOTE: If resources do not have a relevant college degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required.

Required Experience

8+ years of relevant experience in business analysis, business systems analysis, software change management, requirements management, or a related field

Required Skills

• Point of sale (POS) retail experience or software change experience with a POS.
• Experience gathering, documenting, and validating business and functional requirements
• Experience coordinating software changes across business and technical teams
• Experience performing business, operational, and cross-system impact analysis
• Experience developing process documentation, use cases, acceptance criteria, and traceability materials
• Experience supporting testing, user acceptance, implementation, and change-management activities
• Experience tracking risks, issues, actions, assumptions, decisions, and dependencies
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, organization, and stakeholder-management skills
• Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, and comparable collaboration tools
• Experience with Jira, ServiceNow, or another requirements, change, or issue-tracking platform is preferred

Security Clearance Level :

Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting.

This position has a U.S. residency requirement . The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions).

Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Location :

Merryfield HQ

Engineering Building

8409 Lee Hwy, Merrifield, VA 22116

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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The likely salary range for this position is $106,275 - $143,783. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: Less than 10%

T elecommuting Options: Onsite

Work Location: USA VA Fairfax

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up t