Sr. Business Analyst (Grants Management)

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers. They are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to coordinate between program teams and federal agencies, focusing on grants management and operational readiness activities.

Responsibilities:

• Quickly develop a thorough understanding of system functionality and be able to present both "big picture" overviews and detailed deep-dives to new and prospective partners, in collaboration with relevant Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
• Serve as the primary coordination interface for assigned federal partner organizations during onboarding and throughout ongoing engagement activities
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with partner agency representatives, business teams, and technical support organizations to ensure continuity of service
• Coordinate and actively participate in partner-facing activities including onboarding discussions, implementation reviews, service assessments, and operational readiness activities
• Prepare and facilitate information exchange between partner organizations and business teams to support alignment on priorities, timelines, dependencies, and service impacts
• Prepare executive briefings for Senior Leadership and partner stakeholders
• Analyze, identify, and communicate coordination gaps, unresolved issues, and operational risks to appropriate stakeholders
• Maintain onboarding milestones, open action items, partner concerns, and issue resolution status for all assigned partner organizations
• Coordinate follow-up activities with relevant parties to support timely resolution of open items
• Escalate unresolved issues, service concerns, or operational risks to management or designated alternate in accordance with established escalation procedures
• Utilize requirements elicitation techniques to gather business requirements from system stakeholders as needed to support partner engagements
• Support Product Owners and Team Leads in planning, road mapping, and monitoring project work related to partner activities
• Maintain requirements traceability and other documentation following agile principles

Requirements:

• US Citizen or Green Card holder with the ability to obtain and maintain HHS Public Trust clearance
• Be currently located in the UNITED STATES for the CURRENT three consecutive years
• Bachelor's degree or higher and a minimum of 8 years of experience working in the Information Technology field directly as a Business/Systems Analyst, WITH a minimum of 2 years in a SENIOR or LEAD capacity
• Demonstrated experience with federal grants management, ideally with full lifecycle exposure (pre-award, award, and post-award)
• Direct experience with the NIH grants management system or a comparable federal grants management system
• A minimum of 3 years of experience documenting and managing requirements and conducting requirements analysis in an Agile environment
• A minimum of 3 years of experience eliciting system requirements using standard techniques such as interviews, user groups, surveys, and documentation review
• Experience preparing executive-level briefings and communication materials for senior leadership audiences
• Experience serving as a primary point of contact or relationship manager for external stakeholders or partner organizations
• Demonstrated experience working with cross-functional teams including developers, testers, and business stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience marketing and presenting system functionality to prospective partner agencies, including the ability to tailor demonstrations to varied audiences ranging from executive stakeholders to technical teams
• Must have excellent written and oral communication skills — clear, succinct, and executive-ready
• Must be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, matrixed team environment with a client-centric culture
• Must be able to multi-task and shift priorities as needed in response to evolving partner needs
• Must be able to work effectively with diverse stakeholder types — from technical teams to senior agency officials — and facilitate groups to reach consensus
• Must demonstrate strong organizational skills and attention to detail in tracking open items, milestones, and issue resolution
• MS or MBA is a plus
• Proficiency with agile tools including Jira and Confluence
• Experience with federal partner agency onboarding, interagency coordination, or federal program management
• Experience performing gap analyses and operational risk assessments
• Knowledge of business process modeling techniques and tools
• Familiarity with federal grants management policy and regulatory frameworks