Lead Business Analyst (Remote - US)

ICF International; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF International is seeking a Lead Business Analyst to drive delivery in a large modernization program. You will lead and mentor BA teams, refine requirements, and ensure testable artifacts align with client needs.

The role requires hands-on BA work, collaboration with architects and developers, and governance across intake, demonstrations, and acceptance. EST hours and East Coast alignment are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of BA experience supporting application development, digital transformation, and/or system modernization initiatives.
• 5+ years of experience documenting requirements and specifications for web-based or enterprise systems.
• 5+ years of recent experience working in a mature Agile delivery environment, such as Scrum or Kanban.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate Business Analysts across multiple program workstreams, providing direction, mentoring, and oversight of BA activities and deliverables.
• Establish and reinforce consistent requirements practices, documentation standards, and quality expectations across the BA team.
• Review requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process documentation, and other BA work products for completeness, consistency, clarity, and readiness for downstream development and testing.
• Help coordinate BA workload and activities across workstreams, identifying cross-team dependencies, requirements gaps, and areas requiring additional analysis.
• Work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand complex business processes and system requirements in a digital modernization environment.
• Lead requirements elicitation and analysis, translating business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, functional requirements, and supporting artifacts.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Requirements elicitation

Agile delivery

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Geographic Preference: East Coast preferred; Must be able to support EST hours

Role Overview

As a Lead Business Analyst, you will play a key role in supporting delivery execution across a large, complex modernization program by ensuring business needs are translated into clear, actionable, and testable requirements.This is a hands‑on leadership role. In addition to performing senior‑level business analysis, the Lead BA is expected to lead and coordinate the work of other Business Analysts across multiple teams and workstreams, establish consistency in BA practices and deliverables, and help ensure requirements are complete and ready for development and testing.The role is primarily delivery‑facing and embedded with technical teams, while also supporting structured client interaction at key points such as intake, requirements review, demonstrations, and acceptance.You will work closely with program leadership, technical leads, architects, developers, testers and other Business Analysts. Success in this role requires someone who can operate effectively at both the program level and within the details of delivery, balancing leadership and coordination with hands‑on analysis and documentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate Business Analysts across multiple program workstreams, providing direction, mentoring, and oversight of BA activities and deliverables.
• Establish and reinforce consistent requirements practices, documentation standards, and quality expectations across the BA team.
• Review requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process documentation, and other BA work products for completeness, consistency, clarity, and readiness for downstream development and testing.
• Help coordinate BA workload and activities across workstreams, identifying cross‑team dependencies, requirements gaps, and areas requiring additional analysis.
• Work closely with technical and non‑technical stakeholders to understand complex business processes and system requirements in a digital modernization environment.
• Lead requirements elicitation and analysis, translating business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, functional requirements, and supporting artifacts.
• Analyze and document system behavior, including APIs, data flows, integrations, edge cases, business rules, and dependencies, to ensure requirements are complete and testable.
• Actively manage and maintain backlogs in Jira, ensuring appropriate refinement, prioritisation, traceability, and readiness for development.
• Develop and maintain high‑quality functional, delivery, and governance documentation in Confluence, including requirements, process flows, decision records, and other client‑facing deliverables.
• Support and participate in established governance, intake, review, and acceptance processes.
• Provide BA leadership for the definition and refinement of new features and functionality, partnering with program leadership, technical leads, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into implementable solutions.
• Collaborate with architects and developers on solution designs, integrations, system interfaces, and technical dependencies.
• Produce and interpret complex documentation, including process flows, data mappings, interface definitions, reporting requirements, and functional specifications.
• Collaborate with developers, and stakeholders on wireframes, user flows, and prototypes to ensure alignment with business requirements and functional intent.
• Facilitate requirements sessions, working sessions, workshops, and cross‑team collaboration with business, technical, and program stakeholders.
• Support system demonstrations, incremental reviews, acceptance checkpoints, and the preparation of associated documentation and deliverables.
• Contribute to a mature Agile delivery environment by applying best practices and supporting continuous improvement across teams.

What You Must Have

• 8+ years of Business Analyst experience supporting application development, digital transformation, and/or system modernization initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a Lead Business Analyst on a large, complex application development or modernization program involving multiple teams or workstreams.
• Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and coordinating the work of other Business Analysts, including reviewing BA deliverables and driving consistency in requirements practices and work products.
• Extensive hands‑on experience facilitating requirements elicitation sessions and working with diverse business and technical stakeholder groups.
• 5+ years of experience documenting requirements and specifications for web‑based or enterprise systems.
• 5+ years of recent experience working in a mature Agile delivery environment, such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business processes and needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, functional requirements, and other implementation‑ready artifacts.
• Hands‑on experienc