Senior Business Analyst

Location: Bethesda, MD, United States

Company

hirify.global is a data and AI engineering firm serving public-sector and highly regulated industries, including U.S. government clients in health, civilian, and national security missions.

What you will do

• Elicit, communicate, document, and analyze business and technical requirements through interviews, workshops, and process mapping.
• Develop business process models, use cases, user stories, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria.
• Support user acceptance testing by developing test cases and validating solutions against requirements.
• Partner with USCIS product owners to create positive and negative UAT validation steps.
• Collaborate with Application DevSecOps, platform, Agile, data architecture, and data science leads to maintain requirements traceability and quality.
• Lead and coach business analysts across DevSecOps teams and support impact mapping, business architecture, and data architecture working groups.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and the ability to secure a U.S. public trust clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, data science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience as an IT Business Analyst or Product Owner.
• 5+ years of experience driving requirements in an Agile/Scrum operating environment.
• Proven experience eliciting, communicating, documenting, and analyzing business and technical requirements through interviews, workshops, and process mapping.
• Experience developing business process models, use cases, user stories, and functional specifications.
• Experience supporting UAT, developing test cases, and validating solutions against requirements.
• Experience documenting NIST SP 800-63-aligned digital identity requirements, including AAL 1–3, FAL 1–3, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, PKCE, SAML, TOTP, and WebAuthn.
• Ability to ensure acceptance criteria address Section 508 accessibility, security, and USCIS Quality Assurance standards.

Nice to have

• At least two years of experience in federal government or regulated industries.
• Prior DHS, USCIS, or federal civilian immigration and identity program experience.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and Agile ALM tools used across USCIS.
• CBAP, PMI-PBA, or Certified Scrum Product Owner certification.
• Familiarity with NIST SP 800-63 digital identity guidelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with opportunities for bonuses.
• Employer-paid health care and a 401(k) match.
• Training and development funds.
• Work supporting public-sector and highly regulated-industry missions.