Product Owner/Business Analyst
On-siteMcLean, Virginia, United States
McLean, Virginia, United StatesOn-siteFull TimeSenior LevelLarge
Full TimeSenior LevelLarge
Job Summary
Define product vision, roadmap, and measurable outcomes for a large-scale GrantSolutions platform modernization effort. Own and prioritize the product backlog, translating business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and process flows. Elicit, document, and validate requirements for integration layers that enable vendor capabilities to coexist with legacy components. Lead product discovery, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release activities while managing cross-team dependencies with Federal stakeholders, vendors, and technical leads. Analyze APIs, data exchanges, and operational impacts to ensure release readiness and continuity during the transition. Obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust clearance prior to onboarding.
Required Qualifications
- Ability to Obtain Public Trust
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum of EIGHT (8) years of experience performing business analysis, systems analysis, product ownership, product management, requirements management, agile delivery, technology delivery support, or related IT modernization work
- Experience supporting platform modernization, system integration, or phased technology delivery efforts, including delivery of new capabilities while legacy systems remain operational
- Working understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), platform modernization concepts, and incremental transition from legacy architecture to modular, API-enabled, cloud-aligned capabilities
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate stakeholder discussions, ask probing questions, synthesize input, and build shared understanding across business, technical, and operational audiences
- Strong knowledge of Agile product delivery, including product discovery, outcome definition, roadmap planning, backlog ordering, refinement, sprint planning, acceptance, release planning, and continuous improvement across multi-team or multi-vendor environments
- Demonstrated experience owning and prioritizing a product backlog, writing and refining epics and user stories, defining acceptance criteria, facilitating stakeholder decisions, and balancing user value, program priorities, risk, technical constraints, and team capacity
- Exposure to integration-layer delivery, including APIs, data exchange patterns, interface dependencies, shared services, or handoffs between legacy and modernized capabilities
- Ability to analyze vendor-delivered capabilities within a common platform architecture and support alignment to shared standards, release readiness criteria, requirements traceability, and governance decisions
- Ability to identify, track, and escalate legacy coexistence risks, including workflow continuity, data synchronization, testing scope, release sequencing, and operational transition planning
- Ability to translate technical integration concepts into clear requirements, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, risk summaries, decision logs, and stakeholder communications for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to proactively identify, document, escalate, and support resolution of requirements gaps, process conflicts, data issues, testing blockers, and stakeholder decisions in highly regulated, multi-stakeholder environments
- Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills with a team-first mindset and solution-oriented approach
- Demonstrates a continuous improvement mindset - seeks to understand before optimizing processes, relationships, and outcomes
- Ability to balance urgency with long-term sustainability and program health
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage stakeholders at all levels in both written and verbal formats
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to support alignment between delivery activities, technology roadmaps, platform architecture standards, and modernization priorities
- Experience with business process, workflow automation, interoperability, and shared service initiatives that improve reuse, reduce duplication, and support incremental capability expansion
- Self-motivated, adaptable, and able to operate effectively in fast-paced, dynamic environments with minimal supervision
- Proficiency with requirements management, process modeling, backlog management, collaboration, and documentation tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart, SharePoint, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint
Desired Qualifications
- Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred
- Experience supporting platform modernization initiatives within enterprise or government environments
- Experience supporting federal or government IT programs involving legacy system modernization, shared services, interoperability, or phased capability delivery
- Experience supporting multi-vendor delivery within a common platform architecture, including alignment to shared standards, interface dependencies, release readiness, or governance expectations
- Familiarity with API-enabled integration layers, data exchange patterns, canonical data models, or interface control processes that support incremental modernization
- Experience supporting projects with a focus on user experience, workflow simplification, operational continuity, and adoption during modernization transitions
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, CBAP, CCBA, PMI-PBA, or similar product ownership, business analysis, systems analysis, agile, or scaled delivery certification preferred
- Knowledge of emerging AI and Generative AI capabilities and a demonstrated ability to identify opportunities to enhance business analysis processes, documentation standards, and reporting through responsible AI adoption
- Understanding of change management principles and organizational readiness activities
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