Senior Business Analyst – Remote, DoD ITSM & Strategy

Paycom - ATS; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Accelera Solutions is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support a DoD program, delivering an enterprise IT service model and ITSM solution in a remote-ready setup. The role focuses on transforming business needs into actionable software requirements and guiding iterative development with stakeholders and a Scrum team.

Ideal candidates have deep BA experience, strong communication, and familiarity with Agile/Scrum, release planning, and process improvement. DoD clearance is required.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship required.
• DoD Secret Clearance eligibility required.
• 12+ years of relevant experience (or 5 years with advanced degree).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Minimum 3 years of BA experience on interactive software projects.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Senior Business Analyst in an Agile/Scrum environment to develop software applications.
• Capture, analyze, and manage functional and non-functional requirements, and user stories.
• Decompose mission/business objectives into system requirements in a product backlog for iterative cycles.
• Meet regularly with stakeholders to identify business needs and requirements.
• Translate business needs to a development team through user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with Scrum Master to establish Release/Sprint backlogs and scope.
• Work with internal/external stakeholders and the product team to ensure needs are met.
• Review and evaluate work to ensure proper scope is met.
• Lead product demonstrations to stakeholders and report results of iterations.
• Establish processes and mentor other Business Analysts.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder communication

Business process modeling

User stories

Release planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Tools

MS Office

SharePoint

Visio

Microsoft Project

Job description

Accelera Solutions is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support a DoD program, delivering an enterprise IT service model and ITSM solution in a remote-ready setup. The role focuses on transforming business needs into actionable software requirements and guiding iterative development with stakeholders and a Scrum team.

Ideal candidates have deep BA experience, strong communication, and familiarity with Agile/Scrum, release planning, and process improvement. DoD clearance is required.