Senior Business Analyst - UiPath

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Groundswell is a premier technology integrator and solution provider, resolutely committed to solving the most complex challenges facing federal agencies today. Our name, Groundswell, represents our commitment to be an unstoppable, seismic change in government. Ours is a small company culture with big company reach and results. Are you ready to be audacious, be bold and drive change at a rapid pace?

Join us, where we’ll make a greater impact together.

Groundswell is seeking a highly skilled Senior Business Analyst with deep expertise in UiPath implementation, automation strategy, and RPA solution delivery. This role will serve as a critical bridge between business stakeholders and technical development teams, ensuring that automation opportunities are well‑defined, scalable, and aligned with organizational goals. The ideal candidate has a proven track record leading end‑to‑end automation initiatives using UiPath and excels at requirements gathering, process mapping, solution design, and stakeholder management.

• Elicit requirements based on document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
• Serve as a liaison between product owners, technology teams and support teams to keep all parties informed and engaged in the requirements gathering and analysis process.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners and subject matter experts (SMEs) to refine requirements.
• Develop and maintain Process Design Documents (PDDs) that capture current‑state workflows, business rules, decision points, and exception handling for UiPath development.
• Partner with UiPath developers to validate Solution Design Documents (SDDs) against PDDs, ensuring traceability and alignment from requirements through delivery.
• Drive adoption of agentic automation approaches by identifying where UiPath bots, combined with LLMs, can operate autonomously with governance, escalation, and remediation.
• Design and document LLM‑enabled user journeys (e.g., natural language intake, contextual grounding, AI copilots) that extend UiPath capabilities and improve user interaction.
• Provide detailed, comprehensive, testable and traceable process components in a number of formats including, but not limited to, Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Data Requirements, System Software Specifications, Use Cases, etc.
• Perform detailed requirements analysis, document processes, and perform some quality assurance/user acceptance testing.
• Effectively partner with product owners, technical teams and other relevant stakeholders to help solve problems, especially with requirements conflict or unclear.
• Help the project manager ensure the product backlog is updated and supports continuous flow.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Business Analyst, with at least 2 years supporting UiPath implementation or RPA projects.
• Experience with Software Development Lifecycle methodologies, deliverables, and controls.
• Strong understanding of UiPath components:
  Studio, Orchestrator, Queues, attended/unattended bots.
• Demonstrated experience leading requirements gathering sessions, analyzing business flows, and documenting user needs.
• Well‑rounded technology consulting experience desired, to include the ability to define requirements, lead client meetings, facilitate UAT, and conduct training.
• Experience with Jira.
• Able to explain difficult concepts to non‑technical users.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills that translate well into requirements baselines that both technical experts and business owners can understand.
• Experience writing Process Design Documents (PDDs) and working with developers to validate Solution Design Documents (SDDs).
• Excellent customer service, facilitation, and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen per contract requirements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Secret security clearance as required by contract.
• Preference given to candidates local to the Washington, DC metro area.

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