Requirements Engineering, Lead Associate

Charged with working with the project stakeholders and end users to elicit, understand, analyze, and document the requirements for a system to solve a given business problem. Documents, analyzes, and reviews software requirements for a large software development team responsible for development, testing, installation, customer interface and O&M activities for several applications supporting the classification of data and documents. Responsible for interfacing with multiple stakeholders to assess and understand the requirements to ensure that user stories are consistent and applicable across all products. Responsible for overseeing functional and non-functional requirements for multiple products within the project team. The primary duties include managing and verifying requirements; capturing detailed descriptions of user needs and product functionality; and ensuring the project team has clear, consistent, and testable requirements documented in user stories and completion criteria. Reconciles conflicts; decomposes high-level information into the appropriate level of detail for team members; and participates in peer reviews of requirements documentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the elicitation, documentation, and analysis of complex business, functional, and system requirements.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops, interviews, and cross-functional meetings to define business needs and priorities.
• Conduct detailed gap, impact, and process analyses to inform solution design.
• Translate requirements into user stories, process flows, wireframes, and decision models that support development and implementation.
• Collaborate with product owners, project managers, developers, and QA teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying inefficiencies, proposing enhancements, and developing process documentation.
• Support organizational change management by defining communication plans, user training needs, and success metrics.
• Mentor junior analysts and contribute to the development of business analysis standards and best practices.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA
• Must be a US Citizen and possess or be eligible to obtain a Public Trust clearance
• Proven success leading complex initiatives from discovery through delivery.
• Deep understanding of business analysis frameworks, methodologies, and tools.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to convey technical and business concepts to diverse audiences.
• Strong documentation skills, including experience writing BRDs, user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
• Proficiency with collaboration and analysis tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence without authority.