Senior Business Analyst – Software Development Information Technology Washington, DC TS/SCI On site 1 month ago

GCyber; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

GCyber is seeking a Senior Business Analyst – Software Development to support a high visibility federal IT modernization effort. The role focuses on translating stakeholder needs into testable requirements for secure, classified environments using Agile methodologies.

You will elicit and document requirements, manage backlogs in Jira, facilitate cross-functional sessions, and ensure traceability from epics to user stories while coordinating with DevSecOps teams and federal customers.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI security clearance required.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 8–12 years of relevant experience in business analysis.
• Experience decomposing complex needs into epics, features, stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to work across technical, security, and customer teams.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, and translate needs into clear requirements and testable specs.
• Facilitate sessions with customers, product owners, developers, and security teams.
• Document current and future-state processes and design workflows.
• Manage requirements and user stories in Jira with traceability.
• Support data governance, integration, and reporting initiatives.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, and UAT activities.
• Provide cross-functional leadership for complex, cross-domain capabilities.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder collaboration

Mentoring analysts

Jira management

Process design

Communication skills

Risk identification

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

ServiceNow

Jira

Confluence

Git

AWS

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 phases
• Full-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.