Business Analyst

***Active TS Required***

Red Arch Solutions is a proven and effective small business integrator and consultant, recognized as a leading provider of IT development to the Federal Government, and primarily focused within the Intelligence Community. 

Red Arch Solutions is looking for a business analyst to support our client. The scope of this contract relates to maturing and maintaining an IT managed service model, evolving an intelligence organization and its data to a hyperconverged cloud environment, improving the organizational collaboration technology, delivering a more agile operational architecture to the warfighter using commercial technology. 

As a Sr. Business Analyst , you’ll support Agile teams to help gather requirements, ensure delivery meets required needs, and ensure work will be accepted without any major issues.

If you think you can see yourself delivering our mission and pursuing our goals with us, then check out the job description below!

What you’ll do:

• Perform requirements analysis and documentation activities such as: Gather, analyze, and document business requirements through stakeholder interviews, workshops, and process observation; Translate business needs into detailed functional and technical specifications; Create comprehensive documentation including user stories, use cases, process flows, and system requirements; and Maintain requirements traceability throughout project lifecycles
• Conduct Process Analysis and Improvement Activities such as: Conduct gap analysis between current state and desired future state; Develop process maps, workflows, and standard operating procedures; etc
• Engage in Stakeholder Management Activities such as: Collaborate with business users, project managers, developers, and other key stakeholders, etc
• Perform Systems Analysis & Testing activities such as: Analyze system functionality and performance to ensure alignment with business requirements
• Conduct Data Analysis & Reporting Activities such as: Create reports, dashboards, and visualizations to support decision-making

What you’ll need to succeed:

• 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst supporting Agile software development programs, preferably within DoD or IC environments
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience in lieu of a degree
• TS Active Clearance
• Proven experience translating mission and business needs into epics, features, and well-defined user stories with acceptance criteria in an Agile environment
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral, and experience facilitating discussions to elicit requirements with business users
• Hands-on experience using JIRA, Confluence, and/or GitHub to manage backlogs, document requirements, and maintain traceability
• Strong ability to collaborate with product owners, engineers, and Scrum teams, supporting backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release activities
• Experience performing gap analyses and workflow analysis to define current vs. future state system capabilities
• Experience supporting user acceptance testing, system testing and validation, ensuring delivered functionality aligns with documented requirements