Business Analyst

Experienced Business AnalystMacMore is looking to fill a part-time position for an Experienced Business Analyst for a pending contract award at the Farm Credit Administration. Location: Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, with primary concentration at the FCA headquarters office in McLean, Virginia.Business Analyst is a key personnel position and shall perform support activities according to the requirements of the SOW. Responsibilities:Conduct stakeholder interviews to understand workflows, operational constraints, and compliance requirements. Document current roles, responsibilities and decision-making authority. Analyze cross-functional dependencies and escalation points.Identify system and data sources that contribute data to discovery. Validate existing integrations, access controls, audit logging, and chain-of-custody mechanisms. Inventory data types, storage locations, custodial patterns, retention schedules, and regulatory boundaries.Review current legal hold policies, retention schedules, data governance standards and privacy requirements. Review existing SOPs related to matter intake, preservations, collection, processing, review and production.Document the current end-to-end eDiscovery lifecycle.Define target eDiscovery workflows aligned to legal, compliance, and privacy requirements. Develop recommendations for future-state data flows and toolsets, access controls, logging and system integrations. Define requirements for preservation, collection, analytics, review, and production.Develop implementation timelines including short-term, mid-term and long-term improvements, resource needs and estimated costs.Assess existing tools and recommend feature enhancements where applicable. Evaluate and recommend new toolsets to meet preservation and collections needs for on-premises, cloud and mobile data sources. Identify automation and integration opportunities. Any recommended cloud solutions must be FedRAMP authorized and comply with FCA and cybersecurity requirements.Prepare documentation that details the deployment requirements sufficiently enough to allow FCA staff to appropriately plan and allocate resources.Draft detailed SOPs for every stage of the eDiscovery process. Develop system-specific playbooks. Draft operational templates.Conduct document reviews with stakeholders for validation and finalization of SOPs, playbooks and operational templates.Required Qualifications:Experience interviewing and managing stakeholdersExperience in requirements gathering and developing proceduresExperience detailing workflow designExperience in business process mappingExperience in change managementPreferred Qualifications:Minimum 7 years of recent experience (education may not be substituted for experience) that includes:Minimum 5 years of experience as an eDiscovery Business AnalystKnowledge of legal tech tools available in the market, including but not limited to Microsoft Purview and Relativity.Experience leading User Acceptance Testing for eDiscovery tools and platformsExperience working with both legal and technical teamsExperience and working knowledge of Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) standardsProficient in technical writing and documentationExperience in data governance, retention and data systemsExperience with Microsoft Purview and related Microsoft 365 compliance toolsExperience with legal hold, preservation, and data-collection best practicesExperience in information security, access control and auditing practices