Business Analyst with Security Clearance

Business Analyst * Location: Scott AFB, IL * Potential for Telework: No - 100% onsite * US Citizen * Active Security Plus Certification * Currently possesses an active Secret security clearance We are looking for someone with requirements elicitation and stakeholder engagement experience, preferably experience with the Agile methodology, who can work with the Product Owners to define the stories with acceptance criteria(s). In addition, bridge the gap between the Product Owner and the developers. The Business Analyst will work directly with customers to capture business and user requirements and communicate those requirements to the team. This role will collaborate with product owners, with IT/network data engineers, data architects, and data visualization/Dashboard experts to translate mission needs into actionable user stories with acceptance criteria, refined datasets and analytics solutions. This position is critical to advancing data driven decision making, improving mission outcomes and ensuring compliance with DoD data and security standards. In addition, this role will be responsible for authoring content and peer reviewing a wide array of documents, including functional, technical, training as well as planning and roadmaps. Primary Responsibilities The successful candidate's primary responsibility will be: * Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and prioritize requirements in support of Agency data integration and analytics initiatives. * Capture requirements as user stories and acceptance criteria in the product backlog, ensuring they are clear, testable, and aligned with mission needs * Act as the liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure shared understanding of objectives and deliverables. * Partner with the Product Owner and Scrum team to refine backlog items, groom user stories, and define "Definition of Done." * Assist in the Development of visualizations, reports and Dashboards that communicate insights effectively to mission and business stakeholders. * Support data unification, visualization, and predictive modeling efforts by translating mission objectives into technical tasks. * Assist in the design and validation of experiments, predictive models, and AI/ML-driven analytics within the GMS environment. * Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. * Ensure compliance with DISA STIGs, DoD IA policies, and other applicable security requirements in all development and integration activities. * Developing, documenting, and communicating the purpose of all relevant data attributes, definitions, and acceptable values to stakeholders, ensuring organizational alignment and understanding * Conducting stakeholder training as needed and participating in data governance forums as required. * Experience collaborating with developers on designing & developing integrations that can integrate Master Data with other systems. * Experience working in an agile environment with cross-functional teams. * Must be able to work independently and in a team environment with limited direction to complete work assignments accurately and on time, prioritizing multiple requests for competing projects and day-to-day customer support * Participate in User Acceptance testing and recommend improvements. * Comfortable working in a dynamic Agile environment. Basic Qualifications * 4 years minimum experience with Bachelor's degree. * Proficient in JIRA, Confluence, and data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, Kibana). * Working knowledge of Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana (ELK Stack). * Experience in data-driven projects (modeling, analytics, integration). * Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills. * Familiarity with networking and internet protocols. * Strong written and verbal communication skills are required to collaborate with customer representatives, domain experts, systems engineers and architects * Active Security Plus Certification (or other applicable 8570 required certification), or ability to obtain one in a short timeframe Preferred Qualifications * Experience with eliciting, analyzing Mission Dashboard requirements. * Experience assisting in the design and validation of Data visualization and Dashboards * Experience and domain knowledge related to data processing, data science or related field. * Prior support of DISA, DoD, or federal government data initiatives. * Strong analytical skills with the ability to design and validate experiments and data-driven solutions. * AWS cloud certifications If you want to apply, please send an email to