Senior Associate -Software Business Analyst Manager

Published: 6/14/2022

Job Decsription/Overview

Full time/mote position.
Establish and manage the end-to-end requirements management approach for a large-scale Federal loan platform.
Lead requirements elicitation sessions with Federal stakeholders, business users, operations teams, technical teams, and external partners.
Oversee the development, review, approval, and maintenance of business requirements, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, interface requirements, and reporting requirements.
Ensure requirements are clear, complete, consistent, uniquely identified, testable, traceable, and aligned to scope and program objectives.
Maintain requirements baselines, change request documentation, assumptions, constraints, and requirement status reporting.
Lead requirements impact analysis for proposed changes, including effects on scope, design, development, testing, training, deployment, and operations.
Support change control boards, milestone reviews, requirements walkthroughs, design reviews, test readiness reviews, and release planning activities.
Identify requirements risks, gaps, conflicts, dependencies, and ambiguities early, and resolve with accountable stakeholders.
Provide leadership, guidance, standards, templates, and quality reviews for business analysts and requirements contributors across the program.

Minimum Experience and Qualifications

U.S. citizenship.
Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience.
At least four years in a supervisory capacity, overseeing team workflows, setting business analyst standards/templates across the organization, and mentoring mid/junior analysts.
Technical literacy, business acumen, and strong management or process skills.
Strong understanding of waterfall methodology, including requirements baselining, formal approvals, stage-gate governance, documentation control, and downstream traceability to design, build, test, and deployment.
Demonstrated ability to manage requirements across multiple stakeholder groups, contractors, interfaces, environments, and releases.
Experience producing or overseeing impact analysis documents, business requirements documents, functional requirements documents, system requirements specifications, interface requirements documents, requirements traceability matrices, and change control artifacts.
Excellent facilitation, communication, analytical, leadership, and issue-resolution skills.
Ability to synthesize complex operational, data, and technical information into structured requirements that support delivery and verification.
At least three years of demonstrated experience operating in a SAFe Agile environment on Federal IT programs.

Preferred Qualifications

Current SAFe certification.
Experience supporting Federal student loan, debt management, collections, servicing, or payment processing systems.
Experience working in hybrid delivery environments, including collaboration with product owners, backlog management, user stories, sprint planning, and iterative requirements refinement.