Senior Technical Business Analyst​/Scrum Master — FDA Food Safety Data Exchange; FSDX

Precise Software Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Business Analyst / Scrum Master to support a high-visibility FDA modernization program consolidating two legacy regulatory data exchange systems into a single, unified cloud-native platform hosted within FDA AWS Gov Cloud.

This role combines strong Business Analysis fundamentals with hands‑on Scrum Master and Agile delivery leadership
. The successful candidate will lead requirements discovery, analysis, decomposition, documentation, traceability, and validation while also enabling one or more Agile delivery teams to plan, execute, and continuously improve their work.

The Senior Technical Business Analyst / Scrum Master will work closely with FDA Product Owners, business stakeholders, architects, developers, testers, UX resources, state regulatory partners, and downstream system teams to translate complex business and technical needs into clear, actionable, testable requirements.

The role requires a strong understanding of business processes, requirements lifecycle management, Agile/Scrum practices, system integrations, data flows, and software delivery. The candidate must be able to facilitate productive conversations across business and technical teams, remove delivery obstacles, maintain backlog readiness, promote team accountability, and ensure that requirements remain traceable from business need through implementation and validation.

The position supports concurrent Development, Modernization, and Enhancement (DME) and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) work streams in alignment with FDA's Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) and Precise's Agile delivery methodology.

Candidates must be USC/GC/EAD with ability to obtain a public trust clearance and be local to the Washington, DC metropolitan area and available for occasional onsite meetings at FDA facilities in Rockville or Silver Spring, Maryland.

• Lead requirements elicitation activities with business stakeholders, Product Owners, subject matter experts, technical teams, state partners, and interfacing system teams.
• Apply structured Business Analysis techniques including stakeholder interviews, facilitated workshops, process analysis, document analysis, observation, data analysis, prototyping, and requirements walkthroughs.
• Translate business objectives, stakeholder needs, operational challenges, and regulatory requirements into clearly defined business requirements, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and business rules.
• Analyze and decompose complex business requirements into appropriately sized features and user stories that can be understood, estimated, implemented, and tested by Agile delivery teams.
• Ensure user stories meet established Definition of Ready (DoR) criteria before entering sprint planning.
• Develop clear, measurable, and testable acceptance criteria that establish a common understanding of expected system behavior.
• Identify assumptions, constraints, dependencies, gaps, ambiguities, and conflicting requirements and drive them to resolution.
• Conduct requirements validation sessions to confirm that documented requirements accurately reflect stakeholder intent and business need.
• Perform requirements impact analysis when business rules, interfaces, architecture, policy, or technical dependencies change.
• Maintain requirements throughout the full requirements lifecycle, including clarification, refinement, change control, validation, and retirement.
• Support scope management by distinguishing defects, enhancements, new requirements, configuration changes, and out-of-scope requests.

• Analyze current-state business processes, workflows, roles, decision points, data exchanges, and pain points.
• Develop as-is and to-be process models, workflow diagrams, swimlane diagrams, use cases, context diagrams, and business process maps.
• Identify process gaps, redundancies, manual activities, bottlenecks, and opportunities for automation or process improvement.
• Facilitate future-state process design sessions with business and technical stakeholders.
• Document business rules, decision logic, exception paths, and workflow dependencies.
• Ensure proposed system functionality aligns with approved future-state business processes and operational needs.
• Maintain clear documentation of decisions, rationale, assumptions, unresolved questions, and process changes.