CBAP Certified Business Analyst Government Agency Experience

Location: Menands, New York
Duration: 30 Months
Experience Level: Senior
Education: Bachelor s Degree or Higher

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced CBAP Certified Business Analyst with strong experience in requirements management, business process analysis, stakeholder engagement, and government/public-sector projects.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience translating business requirements into technical design specifications, documenting existing and future-state business processes, developing process and data models, and collaborating with application development teams.

Experience with government agencies and Grants Management systems is required.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support requirements planning and management activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Conduct requirements elicitation sessions with business users, stakeholders, subject matter experts, and technical teams.
• Analyze, validate, prioritize, and communicate business and system requirements.
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional and technical design specifications.
• Document existing business processes and identify opportunities for process improvement and modernization.
• Develop and maintain various business analysis models, including:
  • Data models
  • Behavior models
  • Process models
  • Flow models
  • Usage models
• Provide clear requirements and process documentation to application developers and technical teams.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings, workshops, interviews, and requirements-gathering sessions.
• Manage internal and external stakeholder communications and outreach.
• Develop presentations, business documents, process documentation, and other materials supporting business transformation initiatives.
• Support the analysis and redesign of core business processes.
• Help stakeholders envision future-state and reengineered business environments.
• Collaborate with technical teams to ensure proposed solutions align with business requirements.
• Support application development and implementation activities by providing clear, validated requirements.
• Identify gaps between current-state and future-state processes and recommend improvements.
• Participate in requirements reviews, validation sessions, and solution walkthroughs.
• Support project teams throughout analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation phases.
• Work effectively within public-sector and government environments with multiple stakeholders and complex business processes.
• Apply business analysis best practices and industry standards throughout project delivery.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor s Degree or higher in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) certification from the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) or equivalent Business Analysis credential/education.
• Valid and current certification documentation must be available when required.
• 84+ months of experience in:
  • Requirements planning and management
  • Requirements elicitation
  • Requirements analysis
  • Requirements communication
• 84+ months of experience translating business requirements into design specifications.
• 84+ months of experience identifying and documenting existing business processes.
• 84+ months of experience creating various:
  • Data models
  • Behavior models
  • Process models
  • Flow models
  • Usage models
• Experience providing business and process direction to application developers.
• 84+ months of experience managing internal and external stakeholder communications and outreach.
• Experience developing presentations and communication materials designed to support the rethinking and modernization of core business processes.
• 12+ months of experience working on projects for a public-sector or government organization.
• Government experience must clearly identify the government entity and duration of service on the resume.
• 36+ months of experience working with Grants Management systems.