M9 Solutions is seeking a Business Analyst to work on-site in support of a government contract for a client located in Washington, DC. An active TS/SCI clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Leads collections, captures, and manages user needs from prioritization through concept development and user story writing to support development and deployment.
• Facilitates the gathers of business-focused requirements to support a product team and product owner in defining the backlog and ensuring the user's perspective is considered.
• Focuses requirements gathering on improved usability, user experience, and driving user adoption and engagement.
• Identifies core business needs and decomposes and documents in concepts of operation, story maps, briefings, and user stories; documents business rules and constructs workflow diagrams as needed.
• Provides consultation on the Commercially Available Information, Data Management, and Information Sharing mission while considering the business implications of applying technology to the current and future business environment.
• Develops data standards, implements and curates a data standards/data model repository, works with system owners and other stakeholders to advance system integration and implementation of data standards, and drives implementation of standardized data models and schemas.
• Develops and implements an enterprise-wide data catalog.
• Collects mission user needs, writes user stories, and identifies core data catalog needs.
• Assesses and analyzes various data catalog tools against requirements.
• Creates catalog guidance and foundational documents, define datasets, and conduct outreach and training to users and data stewards/owners.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Top Secret SCI security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Demonstrates ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret documents.
• Demonstrates ability to solve problems involving several options in situations.
• Requires intermediate analytical and quantitative skills.
• Identifies technical and procedural barriers to information sharing, proposing and implementing solutions, and facilitating data exchange agreements.
• Familiarity with data management and governance frameworks (DAMA, DMBoK) and a strong understanding end-to-end data lifecycle required. 
• Experience working with data governance tools or catalogs strongly recommended.
• Strong documentation, analytical thinking, and stakeholder engagement skills required.

GH 1040