Business Analyst

Currently, RG is looking to hire a Business Analyst to support our Air Force customer. This role will be critical in supporting our customer's overarching mission of optimizing business operations within and across the federal acquisition enterprise.

A Day in the Life:

To help make our customer successful, the chosen candidate can expect to be involved with or responsible for providing guidance and providing information that will help run our client's contracting business more effectively, efficiently, and in a manner that improves user experience. The Business Analyst shall identify potential areas of concern, help streamline business operations, be able to talk to many business stakeholders about the practice, intent, goals, and objectives. The chosen candidate will also:

• Learn and analyze customer business systems and processes
• Work with functional experts to identify needs and priorities
• Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions with subject matter experts
• Translate business needs to requirements (user stories, acceptance criteria, mock-ups, use cases)
• Build business process models to support requirements
• Present efforts, findings, adjustments, key performance indicators, courses of action, recommendations, or any other pertinent information to organizational leaders
• Participate in and support Agile process and associated meetings with development teams

How You Can Make A Difference:

This role plays an important and vital part in mission success. The ideal candidate will be able to provide solutions that will lead to increased data accuracy, improved operational efficiency, mitigated risk, and reduced cost.

Required Skills

The Business Analyst is an exempt customer-facing business professional that provides a variety of services directly to customers for their ongoing programs, new initiatives, strategic planning, and measurement/evaluation in one or more of RG's solutions. They possess excellent customer service skills, remain current on industry trends, value teamwork and productivity and have a wide range of interpersonal skills. They will also have:

• Capacity to view the organization as a whole
• Excellent analytical skills, works well with teams of teams
• Ability to challenge fundamental assumptions
• Demonstrate a strong work ethic and ownership of work, and willingness to learn

Required Experience

To be successful in this role, all candidates must meet the below qualifications to be considered.

• Bachelor's Degree in business management, statistics, computer science or engineering
• 5+ years of Business Analysis experience
• Elicitation and facilitation skills; ability to lead sessions, identify business needs, and translate the business needs to functional requirements
• Proficiency in writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Proficiency in business process modeling and use case diagramming, using industry standard notations/language
• Excellent written / verbal communication skills; must be comfortable with public speaking in small groups
• Ability to accommodate occasional nationwide travel (anticipated at one week per quarter)
• Active (or within window to reactivate) Secret Clearance (US Citizenship required)

Bring the WOW Factor:

In addition to our core requirements that are an absolute must for this role, we want to highlight some of the qualifications that we consider to "Bring the WOW Factor". Below are some of those "WOW Factors" that we would love to have, but that are not considered hard requirements to do the job.

• Willingness/ability to learn to read code in XML
• Knowledge/experience in Federal Government Acquisition and Contracting Processes
• Agile Certification
• IIBA Certification
• Basic understanding of Government infrastructure, cybersecurity regulations, network connectivity
• Located in the DMV area

Physical Requirements & Disclaimer:

Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 lbs. of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required, only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met. EOE, including disability/vets