Lead Business Analyst

Job Title: Lead Business Analyst

Duration: 6 months

Location: Remote

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the requirements documentation project plan, including scope, milestones, and deliverables.
• Review and analyze the existing system and translate current functionality into clear, usable system requirements.
• Conduct business analysis and gap analysis against federal, state, and program requirements.
• Gather, analyze, prioritize, and document business and system requirements in collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Apply project management methodologies to track progress, manage risks and issues, and report status to leadership.
• Provide day-to-day direction, guidance, and mentoring to assigned Business Analyst staff.
• Support team members in analyzing current systems, documentation, and workflows to develop accurate requirements.
• Obtain stakeholder review and sign-off on requirements, priorities, and deliverables.
• Collaborate daily with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with project objectives and timelines.
• Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve project risks, issues, and dependencies.

Required Skills:

• 10+ years of Business analysis experience, including requirements elicitation and documentation
• 10+ years of Knowledge of Project Management Framework
• 10+ years of Knowledge of large-scale IT operations and information technology industry trends.
• 10+ years of Skill in defining all types of requirements, functional specifications, and other deliverables.
• 10+ years of Skill in interpersonal relationships, ability to negotiate among multiple parties, resolve conflicts, and maintain effective working relationships with various levels of personnel
• 10+ years of Ability to create clear, complete, and actionable requirements documentation.
• 10+ years of Ability to ensure accuracy in documenting system functionality and regulatory requirements.

Preferred Skills:

• 8+ years of Skill in interpersonal relationships, negotiate among multiple parties, resolve conflicts, and maintain effective working relationships with various levels of personnel
• 5+ years of Minimum 5 years of experience working with government regulations or compliance frameworks.
• 5+ years of Minimum 5 years of experience in project management
• 5+ years of Minimum 5 years of experience leading a team or workgroup
• 5+ years of Skill in policy interpretation and translating regulations into system requirements.
• 5+ years of Skill in requirements elicitation techniques such as reviewing current MIS functionality and translating into requirements
• 4+ years of Graduation from a four-year college or university with major coursework in business, communications, computer science, computer information systems, management information systems, or a related field.
• 2+ years of Experience with gathering management information system requirements at a large organization
• 2+ years of Experience creating solicitation or contract requirements
• 1+ years of Preferred PMI-PBA or IIBA CBAP