Senior Associate -Software Business Analyst Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Job Decsription/Overview

• Full time/mote position.
• Establish and manage the end-to-end requirements management approach for a large-scale Federal loan platform.
• Lead requirements elicitation sessions with Federal stakeholders, business users, operations teams, technical teams, and external partners.
• Oversee the development, review, approval, and maintenance of business requirements, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, interface requirements, and reporting requirements.
• Ensure requirements are clear, complete, consistent, uniquely identified, testable, traceable, and aligned to scope and program objectives.
• Maintain requirements baselines, change request documentation, assumptions, constraints, and requirement status reporting.
• Lead requirements impact analysis for proposed changes, including effects on scope, design, development, testing, training, deployment, and operations.
• Support change control boards, milestone reviews, requirements walkthroughs, design reviews, test readiness reviews, and release planning activities.
• Identify requirements risks, gaps, conflicts, dependencies, and ambiguities early, and resolve with accountable stakeholders.
• Provide leadership, guidance, standards, templates, and quality reviews for business analysts and requirements contributors across the program.

Minimum Experience and Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship.
• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience. 
• At least four years in a supervisory capacity, overseeing team workflows, setting business analyst standards/templates across the organization, and mentoring mid/junior analysts.
• Technical literacy, business acumen, and strong management or process skills. 
• Strong understanding of waterfall methodology, including requirements baselining, formal approvals, stage-gate governance, documentation control, and downstream traceability to design, build, test, and deployment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage requirements across multiple stakeholder groups, contractors, interfaces, environments, and releases.
• Experience producing or overseeing impact analysis documents, business requirements documents, functional requirements documents, system requirements specifications, interface requirements documents, requirements traceability matrices, and change control artifacts.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, analytical, leadership, and issue-resolution skills.
• Ability to synthesize complex operational, data, and technical information into structured requirements that support delivery and verification.
• At least three years of demonstrated experience operating in a SAFe Agile environment on Federal IT programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current SAFe certification.
• Experience supporting Federal student loan, debt management, collections, servicing, or payment processing systems.
• Experience working in hybrid delivery environments, including collaboration with product owners, backlog management, user stories, sprint planning, and iterative requirements refinement.