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Senior Business Analyst Category: Business Analysis (functional and technical)
Main location: United States, Virginia, Fairfax
Position ID:J1126-0506
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Description: Bring structure to complexity and help turn business needs into solutions that teams can confidently deliver. In this Senior Business Analyst role, you will work across the full delivery lifecycle, partnering directly with stakeholders, guiding productive conversations, shaping clear requirements, and validating that completed functionality meets the intended need. You will have the autonomy to own work end to end, influence priorities, and strengthen the practices of junior analysts and developers. If you enjoy combining thoughtful analysis, practical documentation, hands on testing, and collaborative leadership, this role offers a meaningful opportunity to make an immediate impact.
The Senior Business Analyst serves as a trusted bridge between business stakeholders and delivery teams. The role is responsible for converting goals and challenges into actionable requirements, process flows, user stories, backlog items, and supporting documentation. Working within Agile delivery practices and the software development life cycle, the Senior Business Analyst independently plans and drives work from discovery through delivery and validation, while keeping current commitments and upcoming priorities aligned.
Success in this role means stakeholders have a clear path from business need to validated functionality, delivery teams have actionable and well managed work, meetings produce decisions and momentum, and documentation remains accurate and useful throughout the lifecycle. The Senior Business Analyst is expected to anticipate needs, surface risks early, and help the broader team deliver with clarity and confidence.
This position is located in our Fairfax, VA or Lafayette, LA office; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.
Your future duties and responsibilities: The successful candidate will combine facilitation, analysis, documentation, backlog management, and quality validation. Day to day, this person will prepare for and lead meetings, move discussions toward decisions, maintain clear artifacts, investigate issues in detail, and verify that delivered functionality satisfies documented expectations.
Prepare for, facilitate, and drive stakeholder and delivery team meetings toward clear outcomes and next steps.
Draft, review, and maintain accurate meeting minutes, decisions, and follow up items.
Elicit, analyze, refine, and document business and product requirements.
Create and maintain process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, roadmaps, and other delivery artifacts.
Create, refine, prioritize, and manage work items and the product backlog in Jira.
Perform detailed analysis and investigation to identify root causes, clarify impacts, and recommend practical solutions.
Plan effectively across in progress work, near term commitments, and upcoming priorities.
Own assigned efforts end to end, from requirements discovery through delivery and validation.
Conduct manual testing of developed functionality and document results, defects, and required follow up.
Contribute to automated testing activities when applicable.
Create wireframes using tools such as Balsamiq to communicate proposed experiences and requirements.
Produce clear internal and external facing documentation appropriate to the audience.
Coach and mentor junior business analysts and developers on analysis, documentation, and delivery practices.
Work proactively and independently, escalating risks or decisions when appropriate.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role: A successful candidate will be a self sufficient, proactive analyst who is comfortable operating in a client facing environment with minimal oversight. The role requires practical experience applying Agile methods and SDLC concepts to day to day delivery, along with the judgment to organize ambiguous information and move work forward.
Demonstrated experience working as a business analyst on technology enabled delivery efforts.
Experience incorporating Agile methodologies and the software development life cycle into daily work.
Proven ability to elicit, analyze, document, and manage requirements, user stories, process flows, and related artifacts.
Hands on experience conducting manual functional testing including identification of edge cases.
Experience preparing and facilitating meetings and documenting minutes, decisions, and action items.
Experience creating, refining, and managing Jira tickets and product backlogs.
Experience creating wireframes with Balsamiq or a comparable wireframing tool.
Experience coaching or mentoring junior business analysts and developers.
Strong analytical and investigative skills, including root cause identification and solution development.
Ability to manage work independently, take initiative, and maintain progress with minimal oversight.
Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with stakeholders and delivery teams.
Ability to plan across current assignments and upcoming priorities while maintaining high quality documentation.
Desired qualifications/non essential skills required:
Additional experience that broadens the candidate's ability to lead delivery, improve team practices, and communicate solutions will be valuable. Project leadership experience is not required, but it may help the candidate succeed in assignments that call for broader coordination and ownership.
Experience with automated testing or close collaboration with test automation efforts.
Project lead or workstream leadership experience.
Experience developing product roadmaps and maintaining both internal and external facing documentation.
Demonstrated success owning initiatives from requirements through delivery and validation.
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $81,600.00 $176,700.00.
CGI Federal's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
. Competitive compensation
. Comprehensive insurance options
. Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
. Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
. Paid parental leave
. Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
. Wellness and Well being programs
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Skills: - Agile Business Analysis
- Agile Testing
- Client management
- Good Documentation Practice
- Wireframing
