Technical Business Analyst

Description & Requirements

We are seeking a Business Analyst to join our team supporting our Internal Revenue Service (IRS) client.

This position is remote and requires an IRS MBI security clearance or the ability to successfully pass an IRS MBI investigation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Responsible for gaining a detailed understanding of components of the business and translating that knowledge into the requirements for systems or processes.

- Act as primary liaison between project business staff and technical staff.

- May lead area of requirements development including; work plan development, timeline, and resource management.

- Evaluate and recommend enhancements to application efficiency and reliability.

- May provide guidance, coaching, and training to other employees within job area.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Coordinate and engage with technical and business stakeholders to gather requirements, conduct analysis, validate requirements, produce proof of concept, concept of operations, user stories, diagrams, process flows, and other outputs.
- Provide governance support and reporting activities to include coordination of data calls, tracking of tasks and milestones, and communicate status of projects and activities.
- Create, update, and manage high-quality project documentation that meets IRS acceptance criteria, acquisition strategies, use cases, or executive briefings.

Create and review reports.
- Develop briefings, presentations, and reports to stakeholder groups and executive audiences.
- Develop and maintain project schedules to allow tracking of performance activities required.
- Work with teams dispersed across geographical sites.
- Foster collaboration and communication between team members on technical issues, on process improvements, and in addressing and escalating project risks and issues.
- Document, manage, and report project risks according to IRS Risk Management process.
- Support and participate in release planning sessions.
- Monitor multiple release schedules and support product managers in ensuring critical actions and milestones are completed.
- Track and monitor complex risks and dependencies across the organization that might impact the successful delivery of multiple projects, including change requests.
- Ensure all tasks are completed in compliance with all IRS security requirements.
- Provide status reports, attend meetings and take/distribute minutes.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

- Proven ability to work on and with many development teams that are dispersed across geographical sites.

Experience using online communication tools (e.g., Microsoft Teams, Zoom).

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, technical training or work experience considered in lieu of degree.

- Minimum of seven (7) years of experience with a bachelor's degree.

- Minimum seven (7) years of working experience working in a project management capacity.

- Knowledge...