Tal-Ex is partnering with a government services provider to identify a Business Analyst for a contract to hire role in Arlington, Virginia. 

· Responsible to facilitate the delivery of professional information services.

· Drive requirements gathering and definition and work with the team and client personnel to ensure requirements are understood and testable.

· Work with assigned business units to gather and clearly define requirements for new functionality and adaptive changes to existing functionality of business, personnel and operational requirements.

· Perform existing and planned requirements/capability gap and impact analysis, business process modeling, work flow process analysis and design.

· Report creation and presentation to senior management.

· Conduct study supporting the Stand-up of the Account Executive function and will thoroughly map the current state of requirements collection, analysis, and prioritization, to include requirements for: exercises, training, assessments and assistance visits, classified information sharing and other activities, as identified in the initial survey of capabilities and requirements.

· Prepare and deliver analysis to include functional hierarchy, workflow, business rules, interface design and definitions, outstanding issues, data analysis, and data mapping to clients and staff.

· Be responsible for direct interaction with clients including, but not limited to, eliciting comprehensive business requirements and use cases and recommending appropriate solutions.

· Update and maintain Requirements Traceability Matrix.

· Manage multiple competing priorities through effective organization and communication.

· May be required to formulate, draft or finalize use cases, program management plans, IT transition plans, and other plans in collaboration with the Program Manager.

    •    Requirements gathering, gap analysis and impact assessments.

    •    Business intelligence gathering and process mapping.

    •    Strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

    •    Excellent written and verbal communications.

    •    Understanding of business analysis principles, processes, and techniques.

    •    Strong consultative and advisory skills.

    •    Work in a large environment, government experience preferred.

· Strong MS Project, Adobe Acrobat and MS Visio skills.

· SharePoint and portal maintenance.

· Common Operating Environments.

· Cyber security tools and capabilities.

· Working with classification levels.

· Knowledge of SELC, IT systems, tools

· Business intelligence gathering and services process mapping.

· Previous experience or work history with DHS a plus.

· ITIL, PMP a plus