Space Program BA & Project Coordinator — Impact-Driven

Amentum; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off and holidays

401(k) matching retirement benefits

Educational reimbursement

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Tax‑saving options

Disability and life insurance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Amentum seeks a skilled Business Analyst / Project Coordinator to bridge business and technical teams for NASA-related programs. You’ll own requirements end-to-end, elicit stakeholder needs, and translate them into BRDs and user stories while coordinating multiple efforts with Agile/Waterfall practices.

Expect to map as-is and to-be processes, support UAT, and leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis and documentation.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent certification in a related area and a minimum of 5 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience as a Business Analyst on software development projects
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with a track record of uncovering unstated needs and resolving conflicting requirements across stakeholders
• Proven ability to write detailed BRDs, functional specifications, use cases, and user stories with acceptance criteria
• Hands‑on experience using AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) in business analysis work, such as drafting requirements, summarizing meetings, analyzing processes, or analyzing data
• Proficiency in process modeling (BPMN, swimlane diagrams, flowcharts) using Visio or similar tools
• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum and Waterfall methodologies
• Experience with Smartsheet for project tracking and reporting
• Experience supporting project coordination across multiple concurrent efforts
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting to management

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary analyst between business stakeholders and the technical team, owning requirements from the first conversation through user acceptance
• Identify the underlying business problem behind each request: ask probing questions, challenge assumptions, and separate the stated solution from the actual need
• Lead requirements elicitation through stakeholder interviews, workshops, process observation, and analysis of existing documents and data
• Produce complete Business Requirements Documents that include the problem statement, business objectives, current and future-state processes, business rules, exceptions and edge cases, assumptions, and measurable acceptance criteria
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications and user stories that developers can build from without repeated clarification
• Map current and future-state processes, and identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for automation or AI
• Maintain traceability from business need through development and testing
• Plan and support user acceptance testing (UAT), including writing test scenarios, coordinating testers, and tracking defects to resolution
• Use AI tools to speed up analysis, documentation, and process discovery, and validate AI output for accuracy and completeness
• In coordination with the IT Section Manager, support project execution for assigned efforts: track tasks, milestones, risks, and dependencies; facilitate status meetings; prepare status updates; and assess the impact of change requests

Skills

Business analysis

BRD writing

User stories

AI tools

Process modeling

Visio usage

Agile/Scrum

Waterfall

Data analysis

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Smartsheet

Azure DevOps

Jira

MS Project

Power BI

SQL basics

Job description

Amentum seeks a skilled Business Analyst / Project Coordinator to bridge business and technical teams for NASA-related programs. You’ll own requirements end-to-end, elicit stakeholder needs, and translate them into BRDs and user stories while coordinating multiple efforts with Agile/Waterfall practices.

Expect to map as-is and to-be processes, support UAT, and leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis and documentation.