Systems Engineering Analyst - Product Management

Kforce has a client in McLean, VA that is seeking a Systems Engineering Analyst Product Management. Responsibilities:

• Analyze end-to-end business processes, customer journeys, workflows, and technology ecosystems
• Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, risks, and opportunities for automation, simplification, standardization, and optimization
• Facilitate discovery sessions, process reviews, and stakeholder workshops to elicit and validate requirements
• Conduct current-to-future-state gap analyses across business needs, system capabilities, workflows, and solutions
• Challenge assumptions to uncover missing requirements, business rules, dependencies, constraints, risks, exceptions, and edge cases
• Partner with Business Product Owners to refine, decompose, and translate business needs into clear, testable, implementation-ready system, data, and reporting requirements
• Document processes, workflows, use cases, requirements, and specifications, maintaining traceability through delivery
• Apply systems engineering principles to analyze applications, APIs, databases, integrations, workflows, and data flows
• Evaluate solutions against existing capabilities, identifying gaps, dependencies, and impacts across processes, systems, data, integrations, and platforms
• Partner with architects and engineers to define scalable, secure, maintainable, and supportable solutions
• Document system interactions, integrations, data flows, business rules, decision points, exceptions, dependencies, and operational impacts
• Address performance, scalability, availability, security, auditability, supportability, and compliance
• Evaluate alternatives based on business value, feasibility, architectural alignment, risks, and constraints
• Develop epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, requirements, and process flows supporting development, testing, deployment, and delivery
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 7+ years of experience in Technical Product Ownership, Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, Product Management, Systems Engineering, or related disciplines
• Proven experience translating business requirements into technical requirements, including system requirements, process flows, data flows, and solution specifications
• Experience working directly with Business Product Owners and engineering teams
• Demonstrated experience facilitating discovery, requirements elicitation, process analysis, and solution definition activities
• Experience performing business process, capability, systems, and requirements gap analyses
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum and SAFe
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities

• SAFe, Scrum, CBAP, PMI-PBA, Product Management, Systems Engineering, or related certifications preferred
• Experience in large-scale enterprise technology environments
• Knowledge of enterprise business architecture and business capability modeling
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Understanding of APIs, integrations, microservices, databases, and enterprise systems architecture
• Experience developing process models, workflow diagrams, system interaction diagrams, and solution documentation
• Familiarity with BPMN, UML, process engineering, and systems analysis methodologies
• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, ServiceNow, or similar platforms
• Experience supporting transformation, modernization, automation, or digital initiatives