Requirements Analyst II

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business, functional, and technical requirements for IT programs and systems.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, program managers, end users, and technical teams to gather and refine requirements.
• Participate in project planning sessions, requirements workshops, stakeholder meetings, and status reviews.
• Develop and maintain Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirements Documents (FRDs), user stories, use cases, and related artifacts.
• Ensure requirements are clearly defined, complete, testable, and aligned with program objectives.
• Facilitate requirements review sessions and obtain stakeholder approval for project deliverables.
• Create and maintain Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs) to ensure end-to-end requirements coverage.
• Analyze existing business processes and workflows to identify opportunities for improvement and modernization.
• Support system design and development activities by clarifying requirements and resolving requirement-related issues.
• Assist in identifying project risks, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies related to requirements management.
• Collaborate with project teams to ensure requirements are accurately translated into system functionality.
• Support Agile and Waterfall project methodologies by managing requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and requirements prioritization activities, as applicable.
• Assist in the development of process flows, workflow diagrams, and business models to support solution design.
• Support testing activities by reviewing test cases, validating requirements coverage, and assisting with User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Analyze and document change requests and assess impacts to existing requirements and system functionality.
• Maintain project documentation, meeting notes, action items, and requirements repositories.
• Ensure requirements management processes comply with organizational standards and customer expectations.
• Support implementation, transition, and post-deployment activities to ensure successful solution adoption.
• Contribute to continuous process improvement initiatives that enhance program effectiveness and stakeholder satisfaction.

 Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience supporting IT programs, systems, or technology projects.
• Experience gathering, documenting, analyzing, and managing business and system requirements.
• Familiarity with requirements management methodologies, business process analysis, and workflow documentation.
• Experience developing requirements artifacts such as user stories, use cases, process flows, and traceability matrices.
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall.
• Experience using Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced team environment.
• U.S. Citizen and ability to get the clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and/or Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) programs.
• Familiarity with requirements and project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, ServiceNow, or SharePoint.
• Experience supporting system implementation, modernization, or digital transformation initiatives.
• Professional certifications such as PMP, PMI-PBA, Scrum Master, or Agile certifications.
• Knowledge of business process modeling techniques and tools.