Analytica is seeking a Senior Business Analyst so drive requirements leadership and business/technical analysis for large, enterprise public facing system serving millions of people in the US. This technical role will need to bridge client business owners and DevSecOps delivery teams to translate complex identity, scheduling, and biometrics mission needs into actionable user stories, acceptance criteria, and validated solutions aligned to Agile ceremonies and USCIS standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Elicit, communicate, document, and analyze business and technical requirements through interviews, workshops, and process mapping, ensuring alignment between business needs and technical solutions.
- Develop business process models, use cases, user stories, and functional specifications.
- Support user acceptance testing (UAT) - develop test cases and validate solutions against requirements.
- Partner with USCIS product owners to assist with crafting validation steps (both positive and negative) for UAT on an as-needed basis.
- Collaborate with Application DevSecOps and Platform Architect Leads, Agile Team Leads, and Data Architect/Scientist Leads to drive requirements traceability and quality.
- Lead and guide BAs embedded across DevSecOps teams; coach on backlog management, prioritization, and requirements clarification.
- Support working groups for impact mapping, business architecture, and data architecture.
- Document NIST SP 800-63-aligned digital identity requirements (AAL 1-3, FAL 1-3) in Agile user stories, including protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, PKCE, SAML, TOTP, and WebAuthN.
- Ensure acceptance criteria incorporate Section 508 accessibility, security, and USCIS Quality Assurance standards.
- Contribute to continuous live documentation of business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, technical tasks, and definition of done.
Required Experience & Qualifications:
- US Citizen with the ability to secure a US public trust clearance
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
- 10+ years of experience serving as an IT Business Analyst or Product Owner
- 5+ years of experience driving requirements in an agile / scrum operating environment
- Proven experience eliciting, communicating, documenting, and analyzing business and technical requirements through interviews, workshops, and process mapping.
- Experience developing business process models, use cases, user stories, and functional specifications.
- Experience supporting user acceptance testing, developing test cases, and validating solutions against requirements.
Preferred experience:
- Minimum two (2) years in federal government or regulated industries
- Prior DHS, USCIS, or federal civilian immigration/identity program experience.
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and Agile ALM tooling used across USCIS.
- Certifications such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO).
- Familiarity with NIST SP 800-63 digital identity guidelines.
