Senior BA: Federal IT Backlog & Requirements Lead

PRECISE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS INCORPORATED

Rockville (MD)

Hybrid

USD 110,000 - 140,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Health Benefits

Retirement Plan with match

Paid Time Off and holidays

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Job summary

Precise Software Solutions, Inc. seeks a Senior Business Analyst to lead requirements analysis and backlog ownership on a large federal IT delivery program. Hybrid role with some Rockville/Silver Spring visits, strong emphasis on documentation quality and cross-functional collaboration.

The ideal candidate translates stakeholder needs into clear, testable requirements, leads requirement walkthroughs, and maintains program artifacts while coordinating testing and governance activities.

Qualifications

Experience leading requirements documentation and stakeholder facilitation on federal IT or tech delivery programs.
Strong ability to translate stakeholder needs into testable requirements and clear acceptance criteria.
Proven track record in backlog grooming, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

Lead requirements-gathering sessions with client and external stakeholders, translating business needs into clear, well-structured user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional requirements.
Conduct gap analysis against existing platform capabilities.
Triage incoming requests from external partners, review with the team, and route to the appropriate decision authority before work begins.
Lead backlog grooming sessions, driving requirement readiness and prioritization discussions in coordination with the Product Owner and technical leads.
Develop and maintain process flows, data mapping documentation, and requirements traceability matrices linking requirements to design, test cases, and acceptance criteria.
Facilitate design and requirements walkthroughs with business and technical stakeholders, capturing decisions and open questions for follow-up.
Maintain and update core program artifacts, including the risk/issue log, decision and change log, and action-item tracker, ensuring entries are current and consistently formatted.
Manage integration testing schedules, technical working sessions, and requirements feasibility assessments across client, partner, and vendor teams, tailoring communication and technical detail appropriately to each audience.
Coordinate meeting logistics for recurring program forums (sprint reviews, planning meetings, governance sessions, and stakeholder working groups), including scheduling, agenda preparation, minute-taking, and distribution of follow-up actions.
Track open items and commitments across multiple concurrent external stakeholder relationships, following up proactively to ensure timely closure and escalating items at risk of missing a deadline.
Support user acceptance testing by developing test scenarios tied to documented requirements and coordinating stakeholder validation of results.
Analyze recurring stakeholder requests or pain points to identify patterns suitable for standardized or reusable solutions rather than one-off fixes.
Document business rules, workflow configurations, and rationale for approved requirement decisions to support institutional knowledge continuity.