Mid Level Business Analyst

Salary Range: 120000 to 130000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Key Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end national security systems development, including FISA, NSL, and NDRR project management, user requirements elicitation, system architecture design, data conversion, technical documentation, training, and deployment.
• Drive strategic planning and business process re-engineering (BPR) to modernize legacy IT systems across the federal intelligence and law enforcement communities.
• Define, validate, and document detailed business and functional requirements gathered through stakeholder interviews, technical workshops, and system documentation.
• Assess existing software systems and monitor ongoing development efforts to evaluate technical risks, identify cost-saving opportunities, and recommend system consolidations or retirements.
• Interface with the Department of Justice (DOJ), FBI Headquarters, and field office stakeholders to collect, track, and manage operational requirements for enterprise IT capabilities.
• Produce national security business and technical documentation for FISA systems, Sentinel legal process tools, and collection applications—including Agile user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, CONOPS, cost-benefit analyses, privacy impact assessments, operating models, workflow diagrams, and SOPs.
• Manage Agile product backlogs in Jira by decomposing complex technical and operational problems into clear, prioritized user stories with defined acceptance criteria.
• Support IT project planning, integrated master schedules, and milestone execution to ensure predictable, on-time software delivery.
• Author high-level position papers, briefing books, executive presentation decks, training curricula, talking points, and Power BI dashboards under tight deadlines for NSB IT lifecycle reviews.
• Provide expert technical support, user guidance, and troubleshooting for NSB Technical Bridge applications (FISA, NSLs, NDRRs) and collaborate with back-end engineering teams to resolve operational issues.
• Deliver polished oral briefings and written status reports to FBI executive leadership regarding current IT initiatives and system roadmaps. 

Required Experience/Clearance

• 5+ years of experience in national security IT requirements management (development, review, and analysis), systems development, systems management, or IT business analysis.
• 5+ years of experience with U.S. national security operations, U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) mission sets, national security policy frameworks, and case management workflows.
• 3+ years of experience authoring technical documentation and presenting system architectures, functional requirements, and methodologies to executive-level government audiences.
• 2+ years of experience operating within a federal interagency environment, collaborating with multiple U.S. government departments and agencies on joint IT programs.
• 2+ years of experience managing multiple high-visibility tasks in fast-paced environments and building consensus across diverse stakeholder groups with competing priorities.
• 2+ years of demonstrated experience translating complex technical IT concepts into clear, actionable language for non-technical leadership.
• 2+ years of demonstrated experience taking initiative, leading in place, and operating independently with minimal guidance.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience utilizing Atlassian Jira, Microsoft Project, Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, Word, and SharePoint.
• Active Top Secret (TS) security clearance with SCI eligibility and willingness to undergo an FBI suitability determination/polygraph. 

Desired Experience

We encourage all candidates who meet the basic requirements to apply, even if you do not have any of the following experience:
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related analytical/computational field.
• Professional certifications such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Project Management Professional (PMP/CAPM), ITIL, or Agile Product Owner.
• Specialized experience supporting FBI operational programs and enterprise case management systems such as Sentinel, FISAMS, or DIVS.
• Direct experience briefing Senior Executive Service (SES) and executive management audiences on technology roadmaps and enterprise IT governance.