Description
GDIT is seeking an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst with strong strategic analysis, enterprise planning, and delivery-focused functional analysis expertise to support our PPS Modernization Program.
The Senior Business Analyst serves as a strategic advisor, translating executive priorities into actionable roadmaps while ensuring functional requirements for complex IT systems are fully defined, analyzed, and validated.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Analysis & Enterprise Planning
- Collaborate with executive stakeholders to define business problems, strategic objectives, and high-level solution approaches for modernization.
- Develop and present business cases, including business process automation, analysis, and recommendations.
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Product Strategy, and Portfolio Governance teams to create and maintain strategic roadmaps.
- Evaluate business processes at the macro level using enterprise capability mapping, value stream analysis, and process decomposition.
- Facilitate strategic workshops, decision forums, and prioritization sessions with senior leadership.
- Shape the initial scope, objectives, and success criteria for new modernization initiatives before transition to delivery teams.
- Ensure alignment between strategy, technology, modernization goals, and organizational priorities.
- Provide expert guidance to clients recommending functional and strategic improvements.
- Deliver recommendations, analyses, and briefings to senior-level stakeholders.
- Operate effectively in ambiguous environments and shape early-phase initiatives into actionable plans.
Functional Analysis & Delivery Support
- Analyze user needs to determine functional requirements for a wide variety of projects and highlight areas of improvement.
- Utilize advanced, highly complex modeling and measuring techniques.
- Perform functional modeling based on requirements analysis.
- Direct functional testing of various projects or systems.
- Research, identify, and recommend resources required for task execution and completion.
- Develop new functionality or update existing functionality to meet client needs.
- Write and update project documentation including procedures, presentations, and training materials.
- Perform functional allocations to identify tasks and their inter-relationships.
- Consult with clients to determine optimum design for assigned projects.
- May provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced analysts.
- May serve as a mentor to less experienced analysts.
- May serve as team or task lead.
- Serve as advisor to clients in assigned subject areas, recommends functional changes, and identifies areas for further investigation.
- Generate recommendations in the form of briefings, reports, and other major documents provided to senior-level client personnel.
Required Skills & Experience
- Minimum 10 years of experience, including at least 8 years specialized in IT system functional analysis, preferably supporting cloud or large-scale modernization efforts.
- Demonstrated experience in strategic analysis, enterprise planning, or business consulting.
- Superior functional knowledge of modernization programs and complex, integrated IT systems.
- Strong analytical abilities.
- Expertise in defining, documenting, and managing complex business rules.
- Experience using Agile tools and processes, including Jira.
- Ability to communicate complex strategy and functional concepts to senior stakeholders.
- Knowledge of enterprise business architecture, capability models, and portfolio management.
- BS degree in an IT-related field.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience in Mainframe Business Process Re-engineering.
- Experience in zCloud and AWS/Azure Cloud Modernization.
- Familiarity with BPA tools and BPMN, CMN, DMN modeling.
- Experience leveraging Generative AI for documenting requirements and business rules.
- Knowledge of database technologies such as DATACOM, DB2, Azure SQL & PostgreSQL.
- Experience in Agile methodology for modernization initiatives.
- MBA or related advanced degree.
- Prior experience in portfolio governance or enterprise strategy.
The likely salary range for this position is $161,500 - $218,500.