Lead Business Analyst

Sprezzatura Management Consulting; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Sprezzatura Management Consulting in Arlington, VA is seeking a Lead Business Analyst to guide requirements and business process analysis for the VA Budget Tracking Tool modernization. You will oversee functional implementation and data/integrations workstreams while hands-on developing requirements and artifacts.

The Lead BA will collaborate with VA stakeholders and technical teams to translate complex business, financial, and data needs into clear, implementable requirements for VIPPS and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years in BA/requirements management.
• Experience leading or mentoring analysts.
• Strong elicitation, analysis, doc, stories, acceptance criteria, traceability.
• Facilitation with stakeholders and technical teams.
• Experience in Agile backlog development.
• Strong analytical and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to meet VA background/security requirements.
• VA or Federal government experience.
• Knowledge of PPBE, budgeting or IT portfolio processes.
• Experience with OneStream, ERP/EPM or other platforms.
• Experience developing integrations, data mapping and quality controls.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence.
• CBAP/PMI-PBA/CCBA or comparable cert.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements mgmt across workstreams.
• Guide and oversee analysts; develop requirements and artifacts.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, walkthroughs and backlogs.
• Develop requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and data needs.
• Analyze current/future processes for OneStream config.
• Support integration requirements and data mappings.
• Ensure requirements are complete, traceable and mature.
• Identify gaps and resolve dependencies with stakeholders.
• Partner with OneStream, integration and testing resources.
• Maintain documentation in Jira and Confluence.

Skills

Lead analyst

Requirements elicitation

Requirements analysis

Documentation

User stories

Acceptance criteria

Process modeling

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Mentoring

Security requirements

OneStream knowledge

ERP/EPM familiarity

Jira

Confluence

Federal PPBE

Budget/finance domain

Jira and Confluence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/IS/Finance/Engineering or related field

CBAP certification

PMI-PBA certification

CCBA certification

Tools

OneStream

ERP/EPM

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Position Title

Lead Business Analyst

Location

Hybrid – 2 days a week in Arlington, VA office

Other Considerations

U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (Required)

Position is contingent on contract award.

Position Summary

Sprezzatura is seeking an experienced Lead Business Analyst / Business Process Engineer to lead requirements and business process analysis supporting the modernization of the VA’s Budget Tracking Tool.

This is a working lead position responsible for overseeing requirements across the Functional Implementation and Data & Integrations workstreams, while also directly performing requirements development and business process analysis.

The Lead BA will work with VA stakeholders and technical teams to translate complex business, financial, and data needs into clear, implementation-ready requirements for VIPPS.

Responsibilities

• Lead the requirements management process across the Functional Implementation and Data & Integrations workstreams
• Provide guidance and quality oversight to Business Analysts while also personally developing requirements and supporting artifacts
• Facilitate requirements workshops, interviews, process walkthroughs, and backlog refinement with VA stakeholders and delivery teams
• Develop and maintain requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, process flows, and data requirements
• Analyze current-state and future-state business processes and translate business needs into actionable requirements for OneStream configuration and implementation
• Support integration requirements, including business/data rules, mappings, reconciliation, interface behavior, and exception handling
• Ensure requirements are complete, traceable, prioritized, and sufficiently mature to support planned sprints and releases
• Identify and drive resolution of requirements gaps, conflicting business rules, dependencies, and outstanding stakeholder decisions
• Partner with OneStream, integration, and testing resources throughout implementation, testing, UAT, and stakeholder validation
• Maintain requirements and supporting documentation in Jira, Confluence, and applicable program repositories

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Finance, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
• 7+ years of business analysis, requirements management, or business process engineering experience supporting complex IT implementations
• Experience serving as a Lead or Senior Business Analyst, including oversight or mentoring of other analysts
• Strong experience with requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, user stories, acceptance criteria, process modeling, and requirements traceability
• Experience facilitating requirements sessions with business stakeholders and technical teams
• Experience supporting requirements and backlog development in an Agile delivery environment
• Strong analytical, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills
• Ability to meet applicable VA background investigation/security requirements
• VA or other Federal Government experience
• Knowledge of Federal PPBE, budget formulation/execution, financial management, acquisition, or IT portfolio processes
• Experience with OneStream, ERP/EPM, financial management, or other configurable enterprise platforms
• Experience developing requirements for system integrations, APIs, data mapping, reconciliation, and data-quality controls
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• CBAP, PMI-PBA, CCBA, or comparable certification

Working Conditions

Standard Business hours are Monday through Friday. Occasional extended or weekend hours may be required based on operational needs. Must have reliable internet service that allows for effective telecommuting on remote days.

Pay Range

The base salary range for this position is $105,000 to $125,000 annually, depending on geographic work location, relevant experience, skills, education, internal equity, security clearance, and contract requirements. Geographic salary ranges are determined in accordance with the company's compensation practices and represent a good-faith estimate of the compensation for this position at the time of posting.

Benefits

Sprezzatura offers a comprehensive and flexible b