Sr SW Requirements Business Analyst

This contract with the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) provides enterprise information technology services support.  Services are provided across a broad range of DMDC products and services, spanning numerous systems and applications and covering all four primary business lines: 1) Decision Support - Decision makers have the information they need, when they need it, to make the best decision for the Department, the war fighters and their families, 2) Enterprise Integration - Focus highly motivated employees, insightful partners and resources to provide customers state of the art solutions, on time, and at lower cost, 3) Entitlements and Benefits - Beneficiaries receive every benefit they are entitled to-- transparently and seamlessly, 4) Identity Management - Ensure that the right people, and only the right people, have the right access, at the right time, to defend and protect the personnel, logical and physical assets of the DoD. 

The candidate of choice must be able to obtain and maintain a position of public trust vetting.  Active secret or higher clearance may substitute for position of public trust vetting. 

The Senior Software Development Requirements Business Analyst candidate of choice will perform the following activities:

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1. Serve as a Senior Software Development Requirements Business Analyst for one or more complex software engineering projects
2. Capture, verify, and manage requirements and requirements traceability in support of product development, test and delivery
3. Develop requirements, workflow and system analysis
4. Work with business users to develop software requirements and specifications for current system enhancements, new system functionality and new projects for use by customers of DMDC
5. Analyze, design and evaluate computer systems to address and satisfy business requirements
6. Establish functional, non-functional and performance specifications
7. Develop effective guidelines and ensure all project documentation meets established guidelines
8. Conduct business and technical presentation for customer
9. Assist management with recruiting, and training plans for staff members
10. Support the preparation of proposals, business plans, standard process documentation and other documents related to the government contract
11. Provide innovation solutions to complex technical problems
12. Understand and communicate government policies and regulations, operational mission and goals for assigned DoD programs
13. Collaborate with developers and QA to enhance requirements

Qualifications

All applicants must be a Wounded Warrior or be a Disabled Veteran with a minimum of 30% documented disability

1. 10 plus years of business analysis experience in a software or systems engineering project
2. Strong Use Case development and analysis
3. Strong knowledge of best practices for developing documentation, including but not limited to Unified Modeling Language (UML)
4. Capability of dealing with all levels of management, client executives and representatives
5. Demonstrated competency in interviewing program stakeholders and documenting functional specifications and other documents
6. Excellent conceptual, analytical and quantitative skills
7. Work well on a team and individually with the ability to plan      and schedule activities to accomplish objectives in dynamic environment
8. Self-starter and independent learner capable of performing complex work with no guidance

Additional Information

Preferred Skills

1. Prior DoD contract or military experience; familiarity with government environments and standards is desired
2. Familiarity with different software development methodologies
3. Knowledge of or experience with relational database and web      applications
4. Experience working in a dynamic, multi-layer distributed environment
5. Current position of public trust clearance or Secret clearance or higher

Minimum Education Level

Bachelor’s Degree, with 10 to 14  years of experience