Senior Business Analyst

🕒 September 3

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $163k - $187k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧐 Business Analyst

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Systems Planning & Analysis

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

Logistics • Healthcare • Consulting

Systems Planning & Analysis is dedicated to enhancing national security through innovative data-driven analysis and technical engineering services. With a rich history of over 50 years, SPA addresses complex challenges faced by government clients, particularly in defense intelligence and homeland security. The company excels in areas such as AI/ML and decision analytics, systems engineering, and modeling and simulation, providing vital support for national security programs across multiple domains.

📋 Description

• Elicit and document data requirements from functional subject matter experts across clinical, operational, financial, and readiness domains • Translate business questions into technical data requirements, including source-to-target mappings, business rules, transformation logic, and acceptance criteria • Profile source systems using SQL to assess data availability, completeness, and fitness for intended use • Define data quality rules and validation criteria with the engineering team • Test delivered silver and gold datasets against data quality criteria • Build and maintain data dictionaries, business glossaries, data product documentation, and metadata artifacts for enterprise catalog registration • Perform hands-on data analysis and technical validation, including writing transformation queries and validation notebooks • Support light pipeline development in Databricks • Support user acceptance testing and work with mission users to validate data products before release • Write and refine user stories, maintain the requirements backlog, and participate in agile ceremonies • Serve as the day-to-day bridge between Government functional owners, data stewards, and the technical delivery team • Escalate data gaps, source system issues, and governance questions with a recommended path forward

🎯 Requirements

• Active Secret clearance • Master’s degree in Health Informatics, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Public Health, or a related field • 10+ years of business analysis, data analysis, or data product experience supporting analytics, reporting, or data integration work • Strong hands-on SQL skills, including complex queries with multi-table joins, aggregations, window functions, subqueries, and common table expressions • Experience translating business or mission requirements into technical data requirements, including source-to-target mappings and documented business rules • Experience profiling and validating data, identifying quality issues, and defining data quality and acceptance criteria • Working familiarity with modern data platforms such as Databricks and ETL/ELT pipelines • Experience producing requirements documents, data dictionaries, mapping specifications, and process documentation • Experience in an agile delivery environment, including writing user stories and managing a requirements backlog • Strong communication skills for eliciting requirements from non-technical mission experts and translating them for technical teams • Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, navigate ambiguity, and drive assigned work to resolution without close supervision • Working knowledge of relational and dimensional data modeling concepts • Experience with Python, preferably Pandas or PySpark, for data profiling, validation, or light transformation work • Experience supporting DHA, the Military Health System, Defense Health Program, VA, or other federal healthcare data environments • Familiarity with HL7, FHIR, ICD-10, CPT, claims, or encounter data • Experience with Advana, the War Data Platform, Palantir Foundry, or similar DoW data environments • Experience with data governance artifacts and roles such as data stewardship, authoritative data sources, data cards, or metadata catalogs • Experience building or validating dashboards and reports in Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, or similar tools • Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, GitLab, or comparable tooling • Experience handling PHI and PII under HIPAA in a regulated environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base pay • Variable compensation opportunities • Health insurance • Flexible spending accounts • Health savings accounts • Retirement savings plans • Life and disability insurance programs • Paid and unpaid time away from work