Senior Business Analyst - Software Development

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 that is building and integrating secure digital capabilities in a classified environment. The program uses an Agile delivery model and a technology environment centered on ServiceNow, Elastic, AWS, Red Hat, and supporting integration technologies such as Kafka. The Senior Business Analyst will connect mission stakeholders with the delivery team, ensuring that customer needs become clear, testable, and traceable software and data requirements.

As the Senior Business Analyst, you will

• Elicit, analyze, and translate business, operational, user, data, and system needs into clear requirements, functional specifications, epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate working sessions with customers, product owners, subject matter experts, developers, testers, cybersecurity personnel, and operational teams.
• Document current-state processes and partner with stakeholders to design practical future-state workflows.
• Manage requirements and user stories in Jira and maintain traceability through design, development, testing, deployment, and acceptance.
• 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 documentation.
• Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, demonstrations, user acceptance testing, and release readiness activities.
• Support solutions and integrations involving ServiceNow, AWS, and connected enterprise systems.
• Lead requirements discovery and process-design activities for complex, cross-functional capabilities and integrations.
• Resolve conflicting stakeholder needs, identify dependencies and risks, and drive decisions needed to keep delivery moving.
• Establish analysis, documentation, traceability, data‑governance, and acceptance standards for the team.
• Mentor analysts and review requirements packages for completeness, clarity, technical feasibility, and testability.

Minimum Qualifications and Requirements

• Active TS/SCI security clearance
• Ability to obtain and maintain any additional customer suitability approvals required for the position.
• DoD 8570/8140 IAT II (i.e., Security+, CCNA‑Security, CND, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, SSCP)
• Early-stage flexibility with partial telework during initial development phasesFull-time on-site presence at secure facility in Washington, DC will be required as the program matures
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively across technical, operational, security, and customer teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Eight to twelve years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated 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.
• Experience briefing customer leaders, resolving competing priorities, and guiding analysts and multidisciplinary delivery teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ServiceNow applications such as TSM, TNI, OMT, TSOM, or ITSM.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Git, AWS, ServiceNow, SAFe, Kanban, ITIL, DevSecOps, or CI/CD environments.
• Experience supporting data governance, master data, integrations, reporting, dashboards, or migration from legacy applications.
• Relevant certification such as PMI-PBA, CBAP, CCBA, ITIL, SAFe, or Scrum Product Owner.

Our Benefits

GCyber is committed to the well‑being and development of every employee. Our benefits are designed to support your personal and professional goals, from health and wellness programs to retirement savings and career development opportunities. Highlights include:

• 26 Days of Paid Leave + Annual PTO Increase
• An extra day of paid leave for every year of employment with GCyber
• Paid Parental Leave
• Additional Leave Allowances for Military Duty, Jury Duty, and Bereavement Leave
• 401(k) Matching
• 100% Company-funded Disability Insurance
• 90% Company-Funded Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance, with contributions to insurance benefits for spouses, children, and family members
• Training and Professional Development Plans
• Commuter Benefits Plan
• Parking and Transportation Allowance

Equal Opportunity Employer

GCyber is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means you don't have to worry about whether your application process will be fair. We consider all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or disability.

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