Senior Business Analyst – Federal IT, HCD & PI Planning

Remote Jobs; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) vesting

Paid Time Off

Holidays

Bonuses

Awards

Professional Training Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Integral Federal seeks a Senior Business Analyst to lead requirements discovery, refinement, and validation across VA/OIT/PDS/BAM/MBS product lines to deliver secure IT solutions that support the Department's mission.

The role involves facilitating HCD sessions, writing user stories and acceptance criteria, supporting PI Planning, and ensuring traceability from requirements to the Definition of Done in an agile environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or an IT-related degree with 6 - 10 years' experience.
• Experience conducting HCD activities, including user interviews, usability validation, and story collaboration.
• Experience supporting PI Planning, strategic planning, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and KPI development.
• Experience performing requirement estimation, dependency mapping, complexity scoring, and regression impact analysis.
• Experience documenting requirements in enterprise repository tools (e.g., Jira, GitHub, Confluence).
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (Product, Architecture, Testing, Integration, System Teams)
• Requirements elicitation/elaboration; epics/stories; acceptance criteria; business-process modeling; backlog; dependency analysis; UAT/HCD
• Public Trust
• Knowledge of NCA memorials: eligibility, burial scheduling, interment, monuments; VA Product Owner support

Responsibilities

• Serves as a key facilitator between business stakeholders, Product Owners, Agile teams, and end users, ensuring requirements are clear, testable, strategically aligned, and ready for execution.
• Gather, refine, and elaborate functional and non-functional requirements.
• Produce user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog prioritization inputs, and KPI definitions.
• Maintain alignment and traceability between requirements, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and Definition of Done.
• Perform analysis of size, complexity, dependencies, cost impacts, regression implications, and cross-matrixed effects.
• Conduct HCD sessions, user interviews, user story collaboration, usability testing, and user training feedback activities to ensure optimal feature design.
• Ensure user stories reflect validated user needs and clear acceptance criteria supporting definitive testing.
• Contribute to Sprint Plans and help document deliverables required during the PI.
• Facilitate requirement intake, dependency identification, and estimation of work complexity.
• Produce user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog prioritization, and KPI definitions.
• Support PI Planning, Intake Review Boards, and strategic planning alignment.
• Create Sprint Plans and contribute to PI artifacts.

Skills

HCD activities

PI Planning

Backlog grooming

Sprint planning

KPI development

Requirements elicitation/elaboration

User stories & acceptance criteria

Cross-functional collaboration

UAT

Stakeholder facilitation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or IT

Tools

Jira

GitHub

Confluence

Job description

Integral Federal seeks a Senior Business Analyst to lead requirements discovery, refinement, and validation across VA/OIT/PDS/BAM/MBS product lines to deliver secure IT solutions that support the Department's mission.

The role involves facilitating HCD sessions, writing user stories and acceptance criteria, supporting PI Planning, and ensuring traceability from requirements to the Definition of Done in an agile environment.