Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Job Locations


US-VA-Herndon

Requisition ID


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Position Category


Consulting

Clearance


Secret

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Business Analyst to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Herndon, VA with some remote work possible. The qualified applicant will become part of Peraton's Department of State (DOS) Consular Systems Modernization (CSM) Program, for the Bureau of Diplomatic Technology (DT). This initiative will modernize and consolidate the operational environment under a common technology framework to better support the services provided to CA's customers.

This position requires excellent interpersonal skills with customer-facing experience and expertise in running demos, documentation and data analysis. Your ability to articulate, coordinate, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify business challenges, gather and analyze data, and provide actionable recommendations will be key to your success in this role. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data analytics. If challenge, growth, and the ability to have a positive impact on your customer and fellow team members is something that interests you, this job is worth your consideration.

Responsibilities:

Support all project phases from inception through completion.
• Work with the customer to capture and translate high level functional, technical, and performance requirements into detailed acceptance criteria for epics / user stories in an Agile delivery environment.
• Document business value and technical requirements for data-related projects.
• Collaborate with developers, UX designers and testers to ensure that they understand the functional requirements.
• Provide business area and technical guidance to management and stakeholders to facilitate planning, set direction, define business initiatives, and develop solutions to business information systems needs and requirements.
• Be able to manage multiple assignments, changing priorities, and work independently with little oversight.
• Participate in the Agile delivery meetings and collaborate with the Agile team(s) and other program staff as required.
• Communicate effectively in written and verbal communication coupled with strong listening skills.

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Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Technology related field (ex: Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Information Systems), 2 years work experience.
• Proficient in eliciting and documenting functional, technical and performance requirements.
• Understanding of business and technical processes to formulate and develop new and modified business information processing systems.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate complex technical ideas to audiences with varied technical backgrounds.
• Excellent administrative/organizational abilities.
• Agile Framework knowledge or experience; working as a part of a Scrum Team.
• Must have an Active Secret (or higher) clearance. Interim clearance acceptable.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior work experience in a fast-paced, variable environment.
• Experience using engineering environments and tools that support Agile development tools such as JIRA, Rally, VersionOne, Confluence, IBM CLM/ELM.

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$51,000 - $82,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.