Principal Business Process Analyst

General Dynamics IT; United States; Remote; USD 116,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Internal mobility program

Collaborative, motivated team culture

Full-flex work week

Job summary

General Dynamics IT in Washington, DC area, with remote option, seeks a Principal Business Process Analyst to drive Agile delivery, project tracking, and cross-functional coordination for a government customer.

The role emphasizes requirements elicitation, user story creation, sprint planning, and effective communication across teams. Strong experience with Jira/Confluence and AI tools for progress visualization is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 8+ years of project management, business analysis, or Agile delivery experience.
• Proven experience tracking projects, schedules, requirements, and user stories.
• Proficiency with Jira and Confluence for management and documentation.
• PMP certification.
• US citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day project management, schedule development, milestones, risks, and mitigation.
• Maintain project plans, dashboards, status reports, and delivery roadmaps for stakeholders.
• Track progress across Scrum and Kanban teams using Jira, ensuring alignment with plans.
• Ensure follow-up on action items, blockers, and stakeholder requests through disciplined tracking.
• Establish repeatable workflows and documentation standards for governance.

Skills

Agile Methodology

Business Analysis

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: BI Full 6C (T4)

Job Family: Process and Operational Efficiency

Job Qualifications

• Skills: Agile Methodology, Business Analysis, Project Management
• Certifications: None
• Experience: 8 + years of related experience
• US Citizenship Required: Yes

Job Description

Principal Business Process Analyst (Agile Delivery and Project Tracking)

Job Responsibilities

GDIT is your place. You make it your own by bringing your ideas and unique perspective to our culture. By owning your opportunity at GDIT, you are helping us ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Principal Business Process Analyst joining our team to support our customer activities in Washington, DC. This position can be worked Remote.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. This role places strong emphasis on project management, project tracking, delivery coordination, and Agile execution . The ideal candidate combines business analysis expertise with hands‑on project oversight, ensuring initiatives remain on schedule, risks are managed, and cross‑functional teams deliver high-quality solutions effectively. The candidate should be experienced in Agile methodologies; requirements gathering; user story creation; sprint management, and using Jira, Confluence, and AI tools to track, visualize, and communicate project progress.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management & Tracking

• Lead day-to-day project management activities, including schedule development, milestone tracking, dependency management, and risk/issue mitigation.
• Maintain and manage project plans, dashboards, status reports, and delivery roadmaps to ensure transparency across stakeholders.
• Track progress across multiple Scrum and Kanban teams using Jira, ensuring alignment between planned work, in-flight activities, and delivery commitments.
• Ensure timely follow‑up on action items, deliverables, blockers, and stakeholder requests through disciplined project tracking routines.
• Establish repeatable project workflows and documentation standards to strengthen governance and operational consistency.

Agile Management & Facilitation

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support cross‑functional teams by removing impediments, improving communication flow, and ensuring alignment to sprint goals.
• Monitor sprint health metrics (velocity, burndown, capacity, flow) and proactively address risks impacting delivery.
• Manage Jira workflows, boards, tasks, and queries to support project transparency and operational efficiency.

Business Analysis & Process Optimization

• Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, document, and validate business and functional requirements, translating them into user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Document end-to-end processes and identify areas for optimization, automation, or reengineering to improve operational efficiency.
• Partner with SMEs, technical teams, analysts, and operations staff to ensure requirements are understood and delivered correctly.
• Maintain structured documentation and linked artifacts in Confluence to ensure traceability across requirements, development, and reporting.

Tools & Technology

• Use Jira and Confluence extensively for project planning, tracking, reporting, and documentation.
• Leverage AI tools for project tracking, workflow automation, documentation updates, and multi‑project coordination.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 8+ years of project management, business analysis, or Agile delivery experience.
• Proven experience tracking projects, managing schedules, writing requirements, and developing user stories.
• Proficiency with Jira and Confluence for project management, requirements tracking, and workflow documentation.
• PMP certification
• US citizenship

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of ITIL or other process improvement frameworks.
• Experience with integration of business and operational data into Jira and Confluence to enable traceability, reporting, and workflow automation.

WHAT GDIT CAN OFFER YOU

• Full-flex work week
• 401K with company match
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Collaborative teams of highly motivated critical thinkers and innovators

The likely salary range for this position is $116,450 - $157,550. 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

None

T elecommuting Options

Remote

Work Location

Any Location / Remote

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