Senior Business Analyst – Federal IT Modernization TS/SCI

GCyber; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 Days of Paid Leave

Annual PTO Increase

Paid Parental Leave

Military/Jury/Bereavement Leave

Job summary

GCyber is seeking a Senior Business Analyst – Software Development to support a high-visibility federal IT modernization effort. The role centers on translating stakeholder needs into testable software and data requirements within a secure environment using Agile methods and a ServiceNow/AWS-focused stack.

The candidate will lead requirements discovery, backlog refinement, and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring traceability from concept to deployment while mentoring junior analysts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Eight to twelve years of relevant experience.
• Experience leading business and systems analysis for large software, data, integration, or digital transformation efforts.
• Advanced experience decomposing complex needs into epics, features, stories, acceptance criteria, interfaces, data rules, and business processes.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, and translate needs into clear requirements, epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate working sessions with customers, product owners, SMEs, developers, testers, cybersecurity personnel, and operations teams.
• Document current-state processes and design practical future-state workflows.
• Manage requirements and user stories in Jira with end-to-end traceability.
• Support data extraction, cleansing, transformation, metadata, data dictionaries, reporting, analytics, and data-quality remediation.
• Author and peer review functional, technical, training, planning, roadmap, and governance docs.
• Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, demonstrations, UAT, and release readiness activities.
• Lead solutions and integrations involving ServiceNow, AWS, and connected systems.
• Mentor analysts and review requirements for completeness, clarity, and testability.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Backlog management

Stakeholder communication

Agile / SAFe practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/IS/CS/Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git

AWS

ServiceNow

Kafka

ITIL

Job description

GCyber is seeking a Senior Business Analyst – Software Development to support a high-visibility federal IT modernization effort. The role centers on translating stakeholder needs into testable software and data requirements within a secure environment using Agile methods and a ServiceNow/AWS-focused stack.

The candidate will lead requirements discovery, backlog refinement, and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring traceability from concept to deployment while mentoring junior analysts.