Business Analyst

Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret/SCI

Public Trust/Other Required:
None

Job Family:
Program Delivery and Execution

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Change Management, Process Management, Work Coordination, Workflow Process
Certifications:
None
Experience:
4 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes

Job Description:

Position Summary

The Business Analyst supports a DHS agency’s modernization initiatives by gathering requirements, improving business processes, and translating operational needs into actionable solutions. Working closely with government stakeholders, architects, engineers, and program leadership, this position supports initiatives involving mission analysis, enterprise analytics, workflow modernization, performance management, reporting, knowledge management, and decision-support capabilities.

The Business Analyst serves as a key liaison between mission stakeholders and technical delivery teams, ensuring requirements are clearly defined, prioritized, and traceable through implementation.

Key Responsibilities

Requirements Analysis & Stakeholder Engagement

- Gather, analyze, and document business, operational, and functional requirements.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings, interviews, workshops, and working sessions.
- Develop user stories, use cases, process flows, and requirements documentation.
- Maintain requirements traceability throughout implementation, testing, and deployment.

Mission Modernization & Process Improvement

- Evaluate mission workflows and identify opportunities for efficiency, automation, and process improvement.
- Support development of CONOPS, SOPs, playbooks, governance documents, and operational procedures.
- Assist organizational transformation and change-management initiatives.
- Support modernization efforts that improve mission effectiveness and operational performance.

Performance Management & Reporting

- Develop and maintain KPIs, performance measures, dashboards, and operational reports.
- Support executive reporting, readiness assessments, and decision-support products.
- Analyze mission and program data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Prepare reports, briefings, and presentations for government leadership.

Business & Technology Integration

- Work with architects, engineers, and data teams to translate operational requirements into implementable solutions.
- Support requirements development for analytics, reporting, workflow automation, knowledge management, and business-process modernization initiatives.
- Document business rules, operational processes, reporting requirements, and user needs.
- Participate in demonstrations, testing, validation, and user acceptance activities.

Program & Governance Support

- Support program planning, milestone tracking, governance reviews, and status reporting.
- Assist with risk, issue, and action-item management.
- Coordinate activities across government, contractor, and stakeholder organizations.
- Develop executive briefings, management reports, and decision-support materials.

Team Leadership

- Mentor junior analysts and support quality reviews.
- Lead task-level analysis activities and requirements efforts.
- May serve as a task lead or functional lead.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, Information Systems, Public Administration, Data Analytics, or a related field.
- Minimum 4 years of experience supporting federal programs, mission operations, business analysis, modernization initiatives, or process improvement efforts.
- Experience gathering, documenting, and managing business and operational requirements.
- Experience facilitating stakeholder workshops, meetings, and executive briefings.
- Experience developing workflows, process maps, business requirements, KPIs, dashboards, or performance reports.
- Strong analytical, communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working directly with both mission stakeholders and technical teams.
- Active Top Secret (TS) clearance.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain TS/SCI access.
- Ability to work onsite at DHS Headquarters.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience supporting DHS, CISA, DoD, Intelligence Community, or other national security organizations.
- Experience supporting cybersecurity, intelligence, vulnerability management, readiness, mission-support, or operational programs.
- Experience working within enterprise analytics, reporting, business intelligence, or data-driven operational environments.
- Experience supporting enterprise modernization, digital transformation, process improvement, data governance, or AI-enabled business initiatives.
- Experience working in Agile or hybrid Agile environments.
- PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA, Agile, Lean Six Sigma, or similar professional certifications.

The likely salary range for this position is $72,250 - $97,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
10-25%

T elecommuting Options:
Onsite

Work Location:
USA DC Washington

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work:
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