Lead Business Analyst

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⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $98.6k - $167.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧐 Business Analyst

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ICF

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1969

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

💰 $30M Grant on 2021-03

Healthcare • Logistics • Marketing

ICF is a global consulting and technology services company that helps government and commercial clients tackle complex challenges. The firm provides expertise in areas such as Federal IT modernization, energy and utilities, public health, climate resilience, disaster management, and transportation. ICF leverages data and analytics, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity to deliver innovative solutions. With a strong commitment to corporate citizenship and sustainability, ICF supports social programs and community development, aiming for a sustainable, low-emissions future. The company operates worldwide, with significant presence in Europe through its offices in Belgium, Spain, and the UK.

📋 Description

• Lead and coordinate Business Analysts across multiple program workstreams • Establish consistent requirements practices, documentation standards, and quality expectations • Review requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process documentation, and other BA deliverables • Coordinate BA workload and identify cross-team dependencies, requirements gaps, and areas needing additional analysis • Understand complex business processes and system requirements in a digital modernization environment • Lead requirements elicitation and analysis • Translate business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, functional requirements, and supporting artifacts • Analyze and document APIs, data flows, integrations, edge cases, business rules, and dependencies • Manage and maintain Jira backlogs, including refinement, prioritization, traceability, and development readiness • Create and maintain functional, delivery, and governance documentation in Confluence • Support governance, intake, review, and acceptance processes • Lead definition and refinement of new features and functionality • Collaborate with architects and developers on solution designs, integrations, system interfaces, and technical dependencies • Produce and interpret process flows, data mappings, interface definitions, reporting requirements, and functional specifications • Collaborate on wireframes, user flows, and prototypes • Facilitate requirements sessions, workshops, and cross-team collaboration • Support system demonstrations, incremental reviews, acceptance checkpoints, and related deliverables • Apply Agile best practices and support continuous improvement across teams

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of Business Analyst experience supporting application development, digital transformation, and/or system modernization initiatives • Experience serving as a Lead Business Analyst on a large, complex application development or modernization program involving multiple teams or workstreams • Experience leading, mentoring, and coordinating other Business Analysts • Extensive experience facilitating requirements elicitation sessions with diverse business and technical stakeholders • 5+ years documenting requirements and specifications for web-based or enterprise systems • 5+ years working in a mature Agile delivery environment such as Scrum or Kanban • Ability to translate complex business processes into user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, functional requirements, and implementation-ready artifacts • Hands-on experience with Jira • Hands-on experience with Confluence or comparable collaboration platform • Working knowledge of modern software development lifecycles, requirements traceability, integration testing, and release validation • Strong professional and technical writing skills • Strong verbal communication and facilitation skills • Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills • Ability to work across multiple teams and workstreams • Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Lawful Resident (Green Card Holder) • Must reside in and perform work within the United States • Ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance • Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent years of professional experience • Agile or Scrum certification preferred • Figma experience highly desirable • Experience with legacy system modernization, APIs, system interfaces, and data integrations • Experience with governance, intake, and acceptance processes • Experience creating polished client-facing documentation • Experience translating business requirements into application experiences • Experience using Mural or similar collaborative tools • Experience scoping and decomposing complex work for Agile execution • Experience managing requirements dependencies across teams or workstreams • Ability to operate independently and provide leadership in a fast-paced delivery environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer • Reasonable accommodations for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs • Benefits offerings referenced through Transparency in Coverage Act • Opportunity to collaborate and pursue personal and professional goals