Senior Data Analyst: Jira & BI for Federal Programs - Remote

LMI; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI is seeking a Business / Data Analyst Level III to support VA Agile and Atlassian Cloud modernization. Responsibilities include discovering business processes, analyzing Jira Cloud usage, surveys, and interviews, and delivering clear, actionable findings with portfolio metrics using Excel, Power BI or Tableau.

The role emphasizes data quality, reconciliation, and collaboration with platform and training teams to define readiness measures and onboarding paths.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with related experience required.
• 3+ years of business analysis, reporting, or quantitative analysis.
• Experience with Jira reporting, data extraction, and workflow assessment.
• Strong Excel and Power BI or Tableau skills.
• Ability to interview stakeholders and validate data quality.
• Security vetting and Public Trust eligibility.
• Atlassian ACP-120 or SAFe LPM certs are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Inventory projects, teams, tooling, workflows, and current Jira Cloud configs.
• Document Jira usage and processes; run readiness surveys and interviews.
• Analyze Jira and survey data; track agile and portfolio metrics.
• Develop readiness surveys, interviews, and validation workshops.
• Classify needs and support delivery-wave sequencing from data.
• Define metric specs, data dictionaries, and quality checks.
• Build Excel, Power BI, or Tableau analyses and presentations.
• Translate assessment results into onboarding and learning paths.
• Create structured assessment tools and documentation criteria.
• Reconcile data sources; flag missing or conflicting records.
• Define baselines and refresh rules for readiness measures.
• Produce traceable findings, dashboards, and prioritized recommendations.
• Collaborate with engineers to validate source-to-report mappings.

Education

Bachelor's degree in business analytics, business administration, information systems, statistics, economics, or a related field

Master's degree in business analytics, information systems, data science, statistics, or public policy

Jira reporting, data extraction, and workflow assessment

Excel proficiency

Power BI

Tableau

Requirements gathering

Public Trust determination & vetting

ACP-120 (Jira Administration for Cloud)

SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)

Data synthesis of interviews, surveys, system data

Documentation: requirements, KPI definitions

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Jira Align

Job description

LMI is seeking a Business / Data Analyst Level III to support VA Agile and Atlassian Cloud modernization. Responsibilities include discovering business processes, analyzing Jira Cloud usage, surveys, and interviews, and delivering clear, actionable findings with portfolio metrics using Excel, Power BI or Tableau.

The role emphasizes data quality, reconciliation, and collaboration with platform and training teams to define readiness measures and onboarding paths.