Overview
The Lead Business Systems Analyst serves as the hands-on lead business analyst for acquisition modernization on PhoenixTeam's Department of the Interior program. The role combines deep analysis with practical leadership: leading discovery and requirements work, guiding other analysts, and staying personally involved in process mapping, user stories, solution definition, and validation.
This is not a project-management-only role. The strongest fit is a broad, T-shaped consultant or senior analyst who can make sense of ambiguous business problems, work directly with federal stakeholders, and translate acquisition processes into clear requirements for automation, low-code, data, and AI-enabled solutions.
Key Functions
- Lead discovery and requirements definition for acquisition planning and pre-award workflows, including PWS development, market research, acquisition planning, and clause-selection activities.
- Use Python and SQL to examine acquisition-process data, validate business rules, identify exceptions, and substantiate requirements and improvement recommendations.
- Document current-state processes, business rules, pain points, controls, data needs, and handoffs; design future-state workflows that reduce manual work and improve consistency and traceability.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops, synthesize competing inputs, and turn business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and decision-ready recommendations.
- Identify practical opportunities for AI, automation, digital forms, Power Platform, and integrated data while keeping human review, policy, and compliance needs visible in the design.
- Guide junior analysts and coordinate with solution-design and engineering staff through design, prototype, testing, and user-acceptance activities without becoming a hands-off manager.
- Prepare high-quality client materials, process documentation, and implementation guidance for senior federal stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications
- 7+ years of relevant experience in business analysis, business transformation, acquisition modernization, management consulting, or related work; bachelor's degree preferred.
- Hands-on experience using Python for data preparation and analysis, and SQL to query, join, and validate data in support of requirements and process-redesign work.
- Working knowledge of federal acquisition and pre-award processes, including the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), PWS development, market research, and acquisition planning.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex requirements and process-redesign work for software, automation, or digital modernization initiatives.
- Ability to lead through influence while remaining hands-on with analysis, documentation, workshops, and delivery details.
- Must be able to successfully complete the background investigation, suitability, credentialing, and system-access requirements applicable to a Moderate Risk Public Trust position.
Preferred Qualifications or Skills
- Experience supporting a federal contracting office or advising federal acquisition organizations.
- Management consulting or professional-services experience in complex transformation programs.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint/Microsoft 365, data and API concepts, or other low-code/automation environments from an analyst's perspective.
- Experience using generative AI or LLM tools to support acquisition, research, requirements, process redesign, or prototype development.
- Experience with large-scale modernization involving multiple systems, stakeholder groups, or organizational units.
Position Details
- Employment type: Full-Time, W2.
- Location: Primarily remote within the U.S.; occasional travel to Department of the Interior locations may be required based on project needs.
- Hours: 40 hours/week, Monday-Friday, with required availability during DOI core hours of 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. ET.
- Target start: As soon as possible, subject to required government onboarding.
- Program: Department of the Interior (DOI) modernization program.
- Openings: 1.
- Contract labor category: Business Analyst IV.
- Eligibility: Must be able to successfully complete the background investigation, suitability, credentialing, and system-access requirements applicable to a Moderate Risk Public Trust position.
