Senior Business / Functional Analyst (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Arlington, Virginia, United States; services performed primarily on-site at government facilities in northern Virginia, with quarterly workshops at New Cumberland or northern Virginia.

Company

hirify.global delivers AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and modernization solutions for federal agencies, with more than 1,700 employees and over 100 prime contracts.

What you will do

• Provide SETA advisory support, technical oversight, quality evaluation, and strategic governance for the FMS-ACES product office.
• Audit contractor epics, stories, acceptance criteria, sprint demonstrations, increments, and formal deliverables against contractual and quality standards.
• Lead discovery and requirements elicitation for complex, ambiguous capabilities on the long-range solution roadmap.
• Translate policy mandates and operational concepts into functional baselines, white papers, roadmaps, and user journeys.
• Guide SAFe ceremonies, PI planning, dependency management, system demos, and Inspect and Adapt root-cause analysis.
• Verify integration artifacts and non-functional requirements, including APIs, schemas, data models, throughput, data integrity, error handling, and idempotency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Systems Engineering, or a related analytical discipline.
• At least 15 years of progressive experience in business or systems analysis or functional architecture on large enterprise software programs.
• Expertise guiding, mentoring, or assessing enterprise Agile delivery using SAFe and Scrum.
• Strong skills in complex requirements discovery, user stories, Given/When/Then acceptance criteria, Gherkin, and BDD.
• Advanced proficiency with Atlassian tools, including Jira and Confluence.
• Active U.S. Government security clearance required; Secret or higher preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k), IRA, life insurance, and disability coverage.
• Paid vacation, sick leave, public holidays, and family leave.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Wellness resources.