Lead Business Analyst

Position: Lead Business Analyst 

Location: Washington, DC Metro Area (onsite as required)

Clearance/Screening: High Risk Public Trust required — candidates must complete a Tier 4 background investigation and receive a favorable adjudication prior to placement.

Position Summary:

The Lead Business Analyst will have overall responsibility for execution of tasks across the agency portfolio, including envisioning and delivering long-term strategies that meet mission objectives. The lead will translate stakeholder needs into business and technical requirements, provide architecture-level guidance, make decisions related to technical implementations, and communicate complex technical topics to non-technical executive-level stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead systems and business analysis across the IT portfolio: requirements elicitation, business process analysis, workflow mapping, gap analysis, and solution definition.
• Translate stakeholder needs into actionable business and technical requirements and provide application architecture guidance (inventory analysis; component classification; integration approaches).
• Support and participate in governance and lifecycle processes (CPIC, DHS SELC, OMB Exhibit 300, CCBs, and similar forums).
• Lead configuration management activities: configuration identification, change control, status accounting, audits, and documentation.
• Conduct continuous risk assessment and manage mitigation strategies across program execution.
• Support budgeting and financial analysis for programs: maintain budget/spend plans, track obligations/commitments/expenses, perform variance analysis and forecasting, and coordinate with finance and program control specialists.
• Manage and oversee subcontractor work when applicable; ensure timely status reporting and deliverable completion.
• Prepare programmatic/status briefings and participate in proposal/orals preparation and executive-level presentations as needed.

Required Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT Systems Engineering, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum 10+ years of relevant professional experience
• Minimum 10 years of experience in systems analysis, business process analysis, requirements analysis/gathering, and related project lifecycle activities.

Required Skills & Technical Qualifications:

• 10+ years of technical, business, and solution architecture experience.
• Experience identifying and classifying application components to support business and performance objectives and the technologies they employ; experience analyzing application inventories and developing architecture guidance.
• Experience with DHS SELC and federal governance and investment processes (CPIC, OMB Exhibit 300)
• Proven configuration management and change control experience.
• Familiarity integrating federal cybersecurity and compliance requirements (DHS sensitive systems policy, NIST 800-series, FISMA) into solution designs.

Preferred/Desirable:

• Prior DHS or similar federal law enforcement experience (preferred).
• Knowledge of DHS ICE System Lifecycle Management (SLM) preferred.
• Proposal/orals presentation experience (preferred).
• Professional project management certification (PMP, PgMP, or Agile certification) is desired; equivalent experience may be acceptable.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent active listening and verbal communication; strong business writing.
• Ability to explain technical issues to non-technical executive-level stakeholders and to elicit cooperation across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Strong leadership and mentoring capability
• Adaptable to shifting priorities and timelines

Tools & Platforms:

• Jira/Confluence, ServiceNow, Git/GitHub/GitLab, Microsoft Teams/Outlook/SharePoint, MS Excel/PowerPoint, and earned-value/cost-tracking tools.