Mission Data & AI Business Analyst

DecisionPoint seeks a Mission Data & AI Business Analyst to define reporting requirements, key performance indicators, business rules, data needs, and acceptance criteria for artificial intelligence, data analysis, and business intelligence capabilities supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. 

This position will work with Government mission owners, users, data professionals, developers, testers, and technical leadership to translate operational needs into traceable requirements and measurable outcomes. The Mission Data & AI Business Analyst will analyze mission data, map current and future workflows, prioritize AI use cases, identify appropriate human-review checkpoints, and coordinate user acceptance testing. 

The analyst will also support requirements for governed data ingestion, AI-ready datasets, data warehouse capabilities, analytical models, dashboards, and self-service reporting. The successful candidate must be able to connect technical capabilities to mission value while ensuring that requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, test results, and implementation outcomes remain traceable. 

This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred. 

Candidates must meet all the following requirements: 

• →Active Secret clearance or higher. 

• →Bachelor’s degree in information systems, business, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent. 

• →Minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience. 

• →Experience performing requirements analysis for complex business, data, or technology initiatives. 

• →Experience developing and managing user stories and measurable acceptance criteria. 

• →Experience maintaining requirements traceability throughout the delivery lifecycle. 

• →Experience defining reporting requirements, key performance indicators, business rules, and data requirements. 

• →Experience analyzing mission, operational, business, or program data. 

• →Experience coordinating or supporting user acceptance testing. 

• →Experience mapping business processes or operational workflows. 

• →Experience working with business stakeholders and technical teams to translate mission needs into implementable requirements. 

• →Business analysis or Agile certification. 

• →Ability to evaluate and prioritize AI or automation use cases based on mission value, feasibility, risk, and data requirements. 

• →Ability to define appropriate human-review checkpoints and acceptance measures for AI-enabled workflows. 

• →Ability to communicate complex data, AI, and technical concepts clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences. 

• →Strong written communication, facilitation, analytical, and documentation skills. 

The following qualifications are preferred but are not required: 

• Advanced or additional business analysis certification, such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, or a comparable credential. 

• Additional Agile certification, such as Certified ScrumMaster, Professional Scrum Master, or PMI Agile Certified Practitioner. 

• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense programs. 

• Experience working with AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, or agent-based solutions. 

• Experience defining requirements for AI training, validation, or testing datasets. 

• Familiarity with responsible AI principles, AI output validation, model-performance monitoring, model drift, and controls intended to reduce inaccurate or unsupported outputs. 

• Experience with data governance, data quality, metadata management, data warehouses, or extract-transform-load processes. 

• Experience developing requirements for business intelligence platforms, dashboards, data visualizations, or self-service reporting. 

• Experience with Microsoft Power BI, including familiarity with data models, dashboard design, or Data Analysis Expressions. 

• Familiarity with DoD Impact Level 4 environments or comparable controlled-data environments. 

• Experience using requirements, backlog, and traceability tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or comparable platforms. 

• Experience measuring operational benefits, user adoption, mission impact, or return on technology investments. 

• Business and mission requirements analysis. 

• AI use-case evaluation and prioritization. 

• Data and reporting requirements definition. 

• KPI and performance-measure development. 

• Workflow and business-process mapping. 

• User-story and acceptance-criteria development. 

• Requirements traceability. 

• User acceptance testing coordination. 

• Data analysis and interpretation. 

• Stakeholder facilitation and consensus building. 

• Clear technical and executive-level communication. 

• Strong attention to detail and documentation quality. 

• Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders, priorities, and technical workstreams. 

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.