ICF

Senior Business Analyst

ICF

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $81,094 - $137,860 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudETL

About the role

  • Lead and facilitate stakeholder interviews, workshops, and discovery sessions to gather and validate business, functional, and system requirements
  • Translate complex business needs into clear, testable user stories and acceptance criteria for development teams using tools such as Jira
  • Collaborate with data architects, engineers, and visualization specialists to ensure alignment between business requirements and technical implementation
  • Perform in-depth data analysis to support requirements, including source-to-target mapping, data lineage, and data quality validation
  • Support the report rationalization by analyzing usage, business value, and redundancy to inform migration priorities
  • Conduct impact analysis on proposed changes to identify risks, dependencies, and downstream effects on existing systems and business processes
  • Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily standups, and retrospectives
  • Conduct user acceptance testing (UAT), walkthroughs, and demos to validate deliverables and gather feedback
  • Support the development of training materials, user guides, and onboarding documentation tailored to the client’s operational context
  • Serve as a liaison between client’s program offices and technical teams to ensure continuous alignment and traceability of requirements

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree preferred or candidates can substitute one year of experience for each year of a degree
  • 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, with a focus on data-centric projects
  • 5+ years of experience with requirement specifications gathering, use cases, process flow diagrams, user interface designs, and other system documentation
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to facilitate cross-team collaboration
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust
  • US Citizen or Permanent Lawful Resident (Green Card Holder) due to federal contract requirements
  • Must reside in the United States (U.S.) and the work MUST BE PERFORMED in the United States (U.S.)
  • Familiarity with Databricks, AWS, Azure, or other cloud-native data platforms (preferred)
  • Experience with Azure cloud-native services, Azure Synapse, and AI tools (preferred)
  • Exposure to AI/ML-augmented development environments or tools (preferred)
  • Experience supporting federal clients in data migration, ETL modernization, or dashboard redevelopment (preferred)
  • Experience with data governance principles and practices, including metadata management, data quality, and master data management (MDM) (preferred)
  • Practical experience in a mature Agile environment (Scrum or Kanban), including proficiency in writing and managing complex epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria in Jira or similar tools (preferred)