Your role and responsibilities
As a Business Analyst, you will leverage your strong understanding and working experience with the SDLC to drive business outcomes. You will excel in requirement gathering, analysis, and documentation, utilizing your exceptional communication and analytical skills to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively.
Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Support the full-lifecycle Government acquisition process.
- Elicit requirements using market research, interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis. Translate information into procurement-ready packages.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
- Responsible for the analysis, evaluation, approving or redirecting of the strategy, plans, and techniques of pre-award and post-award functions involving highly specialized procurements for several information systems programs/projects.
- Provide Pre-Award Contract Business Support to the PD ALTESS mission by working with Contracting Officers to provide complete, compliant, and accurate documentation that is required for contract acquisition packages.
- Review purchase requests and requirements packages for accuracy and completeness, ensures appropriate funding and required waivers, certifications, approvals, and compliances have been obtained, and resolves problems with requesting activities.
- Prepare and coordinates acquisition plans.
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: (Functional requirements (Business Requirements Document)).
- Experience in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies required.
- Successfully engage in multiple acquisition initiatives simultaneously.
- Work independently with users to define concepts and under of the Government Team Lead.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
None
Required technical and professional expertise
- Experience in supporting the Government contracts process or similar experience in local government or public sector.
- Proven experience in researching, developing and compiling documentation to meet a specified requirement.
- Excellent analytic and organization skills with a keen attention to detail, sound judgement, solid technical skills, communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with customers and IT management and staff.
- Must be self-directed, customer-focused, process-oriented, logical and tenacious. You must be able to develop new ideas for ways to streamline efforts while maintaining quality; must be willing to apply extra effort when it is necessary; must accept responsibility for your own work; and willing to assist others as the situation demands.
- Experience in the full-lifecycle requirements development process preferred but not required. Candidate will perform requirements discovery and formalization in coordination with multiple Government teams.
- May require hybrid/onsite in Raeford, VA as needed.
- Secret Clearance is required.
Preferred technical and professional experience
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Strong Analytical Skills: Exposure to analyzing complex business cases and developing process maps to guide technical teams. Ability to break down intricate problems into manageable parts and identify creative solutions. Effective analytical skills enable successful business outcomes.
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Excellent Communication: Experience working with stakeholders to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively. Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders and facilitate seamless collaboration between lines of business and development teams.
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Business Case Analysis: Exposure to analyzing business cases and providing guidance to technical teams to ensure solutions meet business requirements. Ability to identify business needs and develop solutions that drive business outcomes.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILSIBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
US Citizenship Required.
The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
