IT Business Analysis Senior Associate

Job Family:
Operational Effectiveness

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

Guidehouse is seeking an IT Business Analysis Senior Associate to support federal health clients with IT governance, business analysis, project and portfolio oversight, and technology-enabled process improvement.

The successful candidate will work with business, program, and technical stakeholders to translate mission, policy, and operational needs into documented requirements, governance processes, management artifacts, and actionable recommendations. The successful candidate will apply prior experience, structured analysis, and professional judgment to address business and technology challenges.

• Elicit, analyze, validate, and document business, functional, technical, and operational requirements through interviews, workshops, document reviews, and stakeholder working sessions.
• Translate complex technology, policy, and program requirements into clear business processes, workflows, requirements documentation, user guidance, decision materials, and implementation recommendations.
• Develop and maintain business analysis and governance artifacts, including requirements documents, process maps, standard operating procedures, governance frameworks, project lifecycle documentation, decision logs, risk and issue registers, and performance reports.
• Analyze current-state business and technology processes, identify operational or governance gaps, and recommend practical future-state improvements.
• Support federal IT governance and oversight activities, including project and portfolio reviews, lifecycle governance, investment planning, compliance assessments, and project health monitoring.
• Review project plans and management artifacts for completeness, consistency, traceability, and alignment with organizational policies, standards, and lifecycle requirements.
• Analyze schedule, cost, risk, performance, and portfolio information to identify trends, dependencies, and areas requiring management attention.
• Develop dashboards, executive briefings, status reports, and decision-support materials that communicate performance, risks, findings, and recommended actions.
• Facilitate meetings and working sessions involving business owners, program leaders, project managers, technical teams, and other stakeholders.
• Document decisions, action items, business rules, stakeholder needs, and follow-up activities while maintaining effective requirements traceability.
• Support Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid technology initiatives through backlog refinement, requirements prioritization, acceptance criteria development, lifecycle documentation, and coordination across business and technical teams.
• Contribute to strategic planning, technology modernization, change management, stakeholder engagement, training, and knowledge-transfer activities.
• Develop and improve governance guidance, templates, tools, and repeatable processes that strengthen accountability, consistency, compliance, and delivery maturity.
• Manage assigned work independently, prioritize competing requirements, and deliver accurate, timely, and client-ready work products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and provide guidance or knowledge transfer to colleagues within the individual’s area of expertise.
• Identify project, operational, and compliance risks; analyze potential impacts; recommend mitigation options; and escalating concerns appropriately.
• Contribute to internal initiatives, proposals, capability development, and continuous improvement activities, as requested.

• Bachelor’s degree FIVE (5) or more years of relevant experience in IT business analysis, IT governance, technology project or portfolio…