Senior Business Analyst

U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (Required)

Sprezzatura is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support requirements and business process analysis for the modernization of the VA's Budget Tracking Tool.

This is a hands‑on position responsible for working directly with VA stakeholders, business subject matter experts, and technical teams to analyze business needs and translate complex financial, operational, and data requirements into clear, implementation‑ready requirements.

The Senior Business Analyst will support requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle, from discovery and elaboration through configuration, testing, UAT, and implementation.

• Facilitate requirements workshops, interviews, process walkthroughs, and backlog refinement sessions with VA stakeholders and delivery teams
• Elicit, analyze, document, and maintain business and system requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, process flows, and data requirements
• Analyze current-state and future-state business processes and translate business needs into actionable requirements for One Stream configuration and implementation
• Work with business stakeholders and technical teams to clarify complex financial, operational, workflow, and data requirements
• Support integration requirements, including business/data rules, mappings, reconciliation, interface behavior, and exception handling
• Ensure assigned requirements are complete, traceable, prioritized, and sufficiently mature to support planned sprints and releases
• Identify requirements gaps, conflicting business rules, dependencies, and outstanding stakeholder decisions and work with the Lead Business Analyst and appropriate stakeholders to resolve them
• Partner with One Stream, integration, and testing resources throughout implementation, testing, UAT, and stakeholder validation
• Support defect analysis and requirements clarification during testing and implementation
• Maintain requirements and supporting documentation in Jira, Confluence, and applicable program repositories

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Finance, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
• 8+ years of business analysis, requirements management, or business process analysis experience supporting complex IT implementations
• Demonstrated experience serving as a Senior Business Analyst or performing comparable senior-level requirements responsibilities
• Knowledge of Federal PPBE, budget formulation/execution, financial management, acquisition, or IT portfolio processes
• Strong experience with requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability
• Experience facilitating requirements sessions with business stakeholders and technical teams
• Experience supporting requirements and backlog development in an Agile delivery environment
• Strong analytical, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills
• Experience with ERP/EPM, financial management, or other configurable enterprise platforms
• Experience developing requirements for system integrations, APIs, data mapping, reconciliation, and data‑quality controls
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• VA or other Federal Government experience
• Ability to meet applicable VA background investigation/security requirements

Standard Business hours are Monday through Friday. Occasional extended or weekend hours may be required based on operational needs. Must have reliable internet service that allows for effective telecommuting.

The base salary range for this position is $112,000 to $130,000 annually, depending…