Business Analyst III

Short Description

Bowman has an opportunity for a Business Analyst III to join our team in Reston, VA. At Bowman, we believe in creating opportunities for aspiring people to thrive and achieve ambitious goals. That’s why a career at Bowman is more than a job. It is an opportunity to be part of a diverse and engaged community of professionals, to be treated as a respected and valued member of a motivated team and to be empowered to do exceptional work that advances the best interest of everyone involved.

We recognize the importance of creating a work environment that is both rewarding to our employees and supportive of our unwavering commitment to provide unparalleled service to our clients.

Supports the Enterprise Delivery Office by improving enterprise systems, business processes, project information management, automation, governance, and data quality. Acting as a liaison between business and technology teams, this role gathers requirements, supports solution delivery, optimizes platforms such as Deltek Vantagepoint and Smartsheet, and drives operational improvements through process redesign, automation, system integration, and emerging technologies.

• Serve as a trusted partner to Enterprise Delivery Office leadership in identifying opportunities for process improvement, automation, governance, enterprise systems optimization, and delivery excellence.
• Promote standardization, scalability, governance, data quality, and reusability across enterprise systems, project information management practices, and business processes.
• Champion practical adoption of AI-enabled tools and automation technologies to improve delivery efficiency, reporting capabilities, documentation quality, and operational effectiveness.
• Support continuous improvement of Enterprise Delivery Office frameworks, methodologies, governance standards, portfolio reporting, and delivery practices.
• Partner with leadership to evaluate emerging technologies and recommend practical applications that create measurable business value.

• Lead discovery sessions with stakeholders to understand business processes, challenges, system limitations, and improvement opportunities.
• Translate business needs into documented functional requirements, business rules, workflows, user stories, process maps, and development specifications.
• Perform data analysis using enterprise reporting tools and basic SQL queries.
• Support administration and optimization of Smartsheet as the EDO’s primary project information management platform.
• Develop and maintain Smartsheet sheets, dashboards, reports, forms, workflows, and templates.
• Lead business analysis and functional improvement efforts involving Deltek Vantagepoint and related enterprise systems.
• Analyze integration requirements and data flows between enterprise systems.
• Define and maintain functional data-governance requirements and coordinate user-access reviews and control testing.

• Serve as the functional lead for assigned initiatives.
• Coordinate testing, validation, deployment, and stabilization activities.
• Maintain requirements, decisions, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and action logs.
• Establish documentation standards and lead the development and quality review of business, process, system, and solution documentation.
• Support stakeholder adoption and organizational readiness activities.
• Evaluate, prioritize, and develop business cases for automation, integration, and AI-enabled solutions.

• Ability to work both independently and within a team environment.
• Highly motivated and problem-solving attitude.
• Strong sense of urgency in responding to constituents.
• Strong work ethic and commitment…