Product Owner/Business Analyst

Guidehouse Inc.; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidehouse Inc. seeks a seasoned Business Analyst / Product Owner to lead discovery, requirements analysis, backlog management, and value-driven delivery for a large GrantSolutions modernization.

You will bridge Federal users, stakeholders, vendors, and agile teams, shaping the product direction and ensuring delivery aligns with program goals. You will own the backlog, refine requirements, and communicate priority tradeoffs while maintaining legacy continuity during transition.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in business analysis or product ownership.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance for DoD/Guidehouse engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead product discovery, requirements analysis, backlog management, and value-based delivery for a large-scale platform modernization.
• Define product vision, roadmap, and measurable outcomes aligned with federal priorities.
• Translate business needs into epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process flows; manage cross-team dependencies.

Skills

Business analysis

Product ownership

Backlog management

Stakeholder communication

Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Family : Business Systems Analysis

Travel Required : Up to 10%

Clearance Required : Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do:

• We are seeking a strong Business Analyst / Product Owner to lead product discovery, requirements analysis, backlog management, and value-based delivery for a large-scale GrantSolutions platform modernization effort. This role will serve as the primary bridge between Federal users, business stakeholders, vendors, architects, and agile delivery teams-establishing a clear product direction, defining current-state and future-state workflows, and ensuring that each release addresses validated user and program needs while maintaining continuity of the legacy system throughout the transition.
• The Business Analyst / Product Owner will balance strategic product accountability with detailed analysis. This individual will shape the product vision and roadmap, make day-to-day priority and scope decisions within delegated authority, and maintain a ready, ordered backlog supported by clear user stories and acceptance criteria. The role will also analyze business processes, system functionality, data exchanges, integration dependencies, and operational impacts for a modern integration layer that enables vendor-delivered capabilities to coexist with legacy components. Strong judgment, facilitation, and communication are required to align delivery with platform architecture, governance standards, release readiness, measurable outcomes, and program objectives.
• Define and communicate the product vision, goals, roadmap, and measurable outcomes in alignment with Federal stakeholder priorities, user needs, modernization objectives, and platform strategy.
• Own, order, and continuously refine the product backlog; prioritize features, enablers, defects, and technical work based on business value, user impact, risk, dependencies, compliance needs, and delivery capacity.
• Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business, functional, non-functional, data, reporting, workflow, and integration requirements for iterative delivery.
• Translate business and user needs into product features, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, business rules, use cases, interface requirements, and operational impact analyses.
• Serve as the day-to-day product decision-maker within delegated authority, clarifying scope, resolving requirement questions, negotiating tradeoffs, and escalating decisions that affect product strategy, funding, policy, or governance.
• Lead product discovery, backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, demonstrations, and release-planning activities; ensure work is sufficiently defined, prioritized, and ready for delivery.
• Review completed work against acceptance criteria, coordinate stakeholder validation, support user acceptance testing, and recommend acceptance or follow-up actions based on business outcomes and quality expectations.
• Analyze APIs, data exchange patterns, interface dependencies, shared services, system handoffs, and interactions between legacy components and modernized capabilities.
• Identify and manage legacy coexistence considerations, including workflow continuity, system-of-record decisions, duplicate processing paths, data synchronization, testing scenarios, release sequencing, operational readiness, and transition impacts.
• Partner with Scrum Masters, Technical Leads, architects, vendors, and Federal stakeholders to manage cross-team dependencies, align solution approaches, resolve delivery blockers, and coordinate incremental capability releases.
• Track product and delivery measures, gather user feedback, evaluate adoption and outcomes, and use evidence to adjust priorities and drive continuous improvement.
• Maintain product and analysis artifacts, including roadmaps, backlogs, requirements, process flows, traceability matrices, decision logs, release materials, interface coordination documentation, and stakeholder communications.

What You Will Need:

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of EIGHT (8) years of exp