Technical Analyst

Integral; Tysons (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

Life Insurance

PTO & Holidays

Bonuses & Awards

Professional Training Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

Integral Federal seeks a Technical Analyst to translate VA-approved priorities into actionable, testable stories within an Agile pod. You will work under the Functional Architect and partner with the Dev Lead, QA Lead and VA Product Owner, aiding AI-assisted requirements analysis for VA-EISS modernization.

You refine epics, user stories and acceptance criteria in Jira, coordinate with SMEs and deployment teams, and use AI tools to draft stories while validating outputs against policy and source

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT or 3-7 years' related experience; degree substitution allowed.
• Hands-on Agile business/technical analysis with Jira, user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog refinement.
• Ability to work directly with technical teams on APIs, data fields, integration dependencies and business-rule validation.
• Proven ability to detect fabricated or incomplete AI-generated requirements and correct them from authoritative sources.
• Clear written communication and experience supporting UAT and government stakeholder reviews.
• Public Trust

Responsibilities

• Refine epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, workflow diagrams, and dependencies in Jira.
• Coordinate SMEs, architects, developers, testers and integration partners; prepare demos and UAT scenarios.
• Use AI assistants to draft stories and analyze structured requirements; verify outputs against policies and sources.
• Identify dependencies on VA interfaces and track risks, data needs and decisions.
• Recommend and refine backlog content while authorities retain prioritization and acceptance authority.

Skills

Jira

User stories

Acceptance criteria

Workflow models

Backlog refinement

Agile analysis

APIs

Data fields

Integration dependencies

Business rules

AI validation

UAT

Stakeholder comms

Public Trust

VA.gov experience

Salesforce

MBMS/EISS/BOSS-E

Traceability

Interface control documents

SQL

Data analysis

Regulated systems

AI tools for requirements

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT related field

Tools

Jira

APIs

Job description

Overview

The Technical Analyst translates VA-approved product priorities into actionable, testable stories for an Agile pod. Works under the Functional Architect, partnering with the Dev Lead, QA Lead, and VA Product Owner while supporting AI-assisted requirements analysis in support of VA-EISS modernization.

Responsibilities

• Refine epics and user stories, acceptance criteria, workflow diagrams, business rules, interface requirements, and dependencies in Jira; maintain requirement-to-test traceability.
• Coordinate NCA SMEs, Functional Architects, developers, testers and integration partners; resolve ambiguities and prepare demos and UAT scenarios.
• Use AI assistants to draft stories, analyze structured requirements and propose test scenarios; manually verify outputs against policy, approved decisions and source artifacts.
• Identify dependencies on BOSS-E, MBMS, VA.gov and VA enterprise interfaces; track risks, data requirements and decisions for the parent value stream.
• Recommend and refine backlog content while VA Product Owners and authorized officials retain prioritization and acceptance authority.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in IT related degree or 3-7 years' related experience. Additional years of experience can substitute for a degree for the right candidate.
• Hands-on Agile business or technical analysis experience with Jira, user stories, acceptance criteria, workflow models and backlog refinement.
• Ability to work directly with technical teams on APIs, data fields, integration dependencies and business-rule validation.
• Demonstrated skill detecting fabricated, incomplete or inconsistent AI-generated requirements and correcting them using authoritative sources.
• Clear written communication and experience supporting UAT and Government stakeholder reviews.
• Public Trust

Preferred:

• VA/NCA benefits, cemetery operations, EISS/BOSS-E/MBMS, Salesforce, and VA.gov digital application experience.
• Experience with traceability, interface control documents, SQL/data analysis and federally regulated systems.
• Experience using approved AI tools for requirements modeling and documenting human-reviewed outputs

Salary range: $120,000-$130,000

This position is in the proposal stage. The above salary range represents a general guideline. Integral Federal considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers, such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills, and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and/or discretionary bonuses in addition to base pay.

Company Overview

Integral partners with federal defense, intelligence, and civilian leaders to tackle their most important challenges and deliver positive outcomes. Since our founding in 1998, we have helped clients leverage existing and emerging technologies to transform their enterprises, empower growth, drive innovation, and build sustainable success. The forward-leaning solutions we deliver are tailored to each mission with a focus on keeping our nation safe and secure.

Integral is headquartered in McLean, VA and serves clients throughout the country.

We offer a comprehensive total rewards package including paid parental leave and immediate vesting in our 401(k). Give us a try and become part of a curated group of professionals at Integral Federal!

Our package also includes:

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Earned Bonuses & Awards

Professional Training Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veteran/Disability