Job Title: Business Analyst (Senior)
Job Category: Information Technology
Time Type: Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Top Secret
Employee Type: Regular
Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%
Type of Travel: Local
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Responsibilities:
- Lead development of comprehensive portfolio-level contract status reports, synthesizing multi-team metrics, tracking epic progress, and providing strategic insights to executive stakeholders
- Coordinate and facilitate weekly planning sessions, PI planning events, and big room planning activities with portfolio teams leveraging Kanban boards and integrated dashboards
- Ensure trip reports capture strategic portfolio outcomes including architecture runway planning decisions, solution validation findings, and strategic alignment with product vision
- Architect and implement sophisticated portfolio-level integrated dashboards delivering real-time visibility into program increment execution, feature delivery flow efficiency, and value stream metrics
- Maintain quarterly spend plans as dynamic living documents utilizing rolling-wave planning projections, team velocity-based forecasting, and variance analysis
- Conduct comprehensive operational readiness reviews for major product releases, facilitate solution demonstrations, and drive portfolio-level continuous improvement initiatives
- Implement comprehensive performance measurement frameworks including Net Promoter Score (NPS), lead time and cycle time analysis, flow efficiency metrics, and quality indicators
- Evaluate portfolio strategy and prioritize new product opportunities through weighted shortest job first (WSJF) analysis, cost of delay calculations, and business value assessments
- Translate enterprise architecture vision into actionable portfolio team enabler epics and ensure alignment between business capabilities and technical implementation strategies
- Assess infrastructure modernization opportunities, develop migration strategies using minimum viable architecture (MVA) approaches, and provide strategic recommendations for cloud adoption
Qualifications:
Required:
- Bachelor's degree + 8 years of experience in related fields, such as business analysis, systems analysis, portfolio management, agile transformation, or IT program management; equivalencies considered.
- Active Top Secret Clearance
- Proven experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), portfolio management, agile release train coordination, and program increment planning
- Demonstrated expertise in leading cross-functional teams, facilitating large-scale planning events, and coordinating multiple agile teams across complex IT portfolios
- Strong strategic thinking and analytical capabilities with advanced proficiency in agile portfolio management tools such as Jira Align, Rally, or VersionOne
- Excellent leadership abilities with proven experience planning and leading major business analysis initiatives, functioning as a subject matter expert, and may supervise staff
Desired:
- Prior experience supporting federal agencies, especially the Department of State
- Professional certifications such as SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), SAFe Agilist (SA), Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), or PMI Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP)
- Experience implementing SAFe at the portfolio level including lean portfolio management, strategic themes, and value stream identification
- Knowledge of Federal IT investment management, enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, FEAF), and DevSecOps implementation in cloud environments
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Pay Range:
There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
The proposed salary range for this position is:
$103,800 - $218,100
