Senior Business Systems Analyst – Agile & Azure DevOps

asmexternalcareersite; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research in Bethesda, MD seeks a senior Business Systems Analyst III to bridge business needs and technical delivery in a regulated federal IT environment. You will lead discovery, translate workflows into user stories, and manage end-to-end requirements through Agile backlog items.

Working with product owners, developers, testers, and operations, you will ensure solutions meet business outcomes, maintain traceability, and support production release with rigorous validation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related discipline; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Six or more years of progressively responsible business systems analysis experience, including requirements elicitation, process analysis, workflow design, and stakeholder engagement.
• Demonstrated experience working in Agile delivery environments, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, user-story development, acceptance-criteria definition, and delivery validation.
• Hands-on experience using Jira, Agile, or Azure DevOps to manage epics, features, user stories, tasks, defects, dependencies, and delivery status.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate requirements workshops, stakeholder interviews, process-mapping sessions, and decision meetings involving operational, policy, and technical stakeholders.
• Experience developing traceable business requirements, functional requirements, process flows, business rules, data requirements, test scenarios, and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust background investigation; U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead stakeholder interviews, requirements workshops, process-mapping sessions, and decision meetings to identify business needs, policy constraints, process gaps, and technical feasibility considerations.
• Analyze current-state workflows to identify bottlenecks, control gaps, rework, handoff issues, reporting needs, and opportunities for workflow automation or process improvement.
• Develop clear, traceable business and functional requirements, including user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, business rules, data requirements, process diagrams, and functional specifications.
• Translate stakeholder needs into prioritized Agile backlog items and support backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and requirements change management activities.
• Use Azure DevOps to document and manage epics, features, user stories, tasks, defects, acceptance criteria, dependencies, delivery status, and end-to-end requirements traceability.
• Partner with technical teams to clarify solution behavior, data and integration impacts, configuration-versus-customization decisions, and nonfunctional requirements related to security, auditability, usability, and performance.
• Define business test scenarios, support user acceptance testing, validate delivered functionality against approved acceptance criteria, document defects, and confirm business readiness for production release.
• Apply AI-enabled productivity tools responsibly to draft, refine, and analyze requirements while protecting controlled information and maintaining appropriate human review, accuracy, traceability, and approval controls.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Agile delivery

Requirements elicitation

Process analysis

Data requirements

Acceptance criteria

Requirements workshops

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related discipline

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

ASM Research in Bethesda, MD seeks a senior Business Systems Analyst III to bridge business needs and technical delivery in a regulated federal IT environment. You will lead discovery, translate workflows into user stories, and manage end-to-end requirements through Agile backlog items.

Working with product owners, developers, testers, and operations, you will ensure solutions meet business outcomes, maintain traceability, and support production release with rigorous validation.