Business Analyst - Software Development

Join Leidos’ Digital Sector as we stand up a brand-new Agile development team at the forefront of federal IT modernization, delivering real digital transformation where it matters most. This is a rare ground-floor opportunity to architect, build, and integrate cutting-edge infrastructure solutions in support of some of our nation’s most sensitive and critical missions.

• Early-stage flexibility with partial telework during initial development phases
• Full-time on-site presence at secure facility in Washington, DC will be required as the program matures
• A collaborative, Agile environment where your input shapes the architecture from day one
• Dev platform based on Service Now, Elastic, AWS and Red Hat

• An active TS/SCI clearance (required for consideration)
• Willingness and ability to complete and maintain additional customer suitability screenings throughout employment
• Current Security+ certification or higher/equivalent

The Business Analyst will work directly with customers to capture business and user requirements and communicate those requirements to the team. This role will define detailed stories and epics, with applicable acceptance criteria in collaboration with product owners, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and development teams where the candidate will facilitate meetings with internal technical and operational teams. In addition, this role will be responsible for authoring content and peer reviewing a wide array of documents, including functional, technical, training as well as planning and roadmaps.

• Gather, analyze, and translate business requirements into clear functional and technical specifications.
• Build datasets and visualizations to support reporting and analytics.
• Perform data extraction, cleansing, transformation, and maintain metadata and data dictionaries.
• Diagnose and resolve data issues, including performing manual data updates and extracts.
• Manage and update user stories in Atlassian Jira.
• Document current processes and partner with stakeholders to design improved future-state workflows.
• Establish governance and lifecycle processes for key data domains.
• Conduct focus groups and synthesize qualitative findings with survey data.
• Mentor junior team members and support overall project delivery.
• Execute engineering activities such as requirements analysis, planning, integration, testing, documentation, deployment, and system evaluation.
• Ensure data accuracy and implement leadership-approved updates.
• Partner with business and digital teams to align with strategic roadmaps and integrate data across systems.
• Define and communicate data attributes, definitions, and acceptable values.
• Build processes to monitor and remediate data health and communicate performance metrics.
• Provide stakeholder training and participate in governance forums.
• Work with developers to design integrations connecting master data to other systems.
• Support solutions leveraging AWS and Service Now.
• Work effectively in an agile, cross-functional environment.
• Manage multiple priorities independently and ensure timely, accurate delivery.
• Participate in user acceptance testing and recommend improvements.

• Must hold an active TS/SCI clearance (required for consideration).
• Ability to pass and maintain additional suitability screenings as required by customer
• Ability to work on-site in Washington, DC
• Education and experience depending on job level:
  • Level III:
    Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 4-8 years of relevant experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
  • Level IV:
    Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 8-12 years of relevant experience (or a Master’s and 6+ years). Additional experience may be considered in…