Business Analyst (AI)

Location: Bethesda, MD, United States. U.S. citizenship is required; ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret eligibility is required, with an active Top Secret clearance highly preferred.

Company

hirify.global delivers technology solutions for U.S. government customers across health, civilian, and national security missions.

What you will do

• Translate mission needs, stakeholder priorities, and user needs into actionable product requirements.
• Elicit, document, validate, and maintain business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Develop epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, business rules, process flows, and workflow documentation.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, engineering, data, QA, security, and analytics teams on backlogs, data requirements, dashboards, search, monitoring, and decision-support capabilities.
• Translate AI/ML capabilities into business use cases, expected outputs, and acceptance criteria.
• Support Agile ceremonies, user acceptance testing, requirements traceability, stakeholder demonstrations, and continuous improvement of analysis practices.

Requirements

• Experience as a Business Analyst supporting software, data, analytics, or technology modernization initiatives.
• Experience with requirements elicitation and validation, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, business rules, process flows, and traceability.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and participating in backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Strong stakeholder facilitation, communication, hirify.globall, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret eligibility.
• Experience collaborating with software engineering, data engineering, analytics, QA, security, and product management teams.

Nice to have

• Federal government, defense, intelligence, financial, grants, or other regulated-environment experience.
• Experience with AI/ML, data modernization, digital transformation, data-intensive applications, or hirify.globall platforms.
• Familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SQL, relational databases, APIs, cloud environments, microservices, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and automated testing.
• Experience with UAT, process models, data flow diagrams, wireframes, workflow diagrams, and change management.
• Business analysis certification such as IIBA-CBAP, CCBA, PMI-PBA, or equivalent.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a diverse group of professionals on complex Federal technology initiatives.
• Employer-paid health care.
• Competitive compensation with bonus opportunities.
• Training and development funds.
• 401(k) matching.