Lead Business Analyst (DHS)
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- $140k–$239k
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PBG delivers mission-focused solutions that eliminate inefficiency and power transformation for federal agencies requiring agility, security, and impact.
Position: Lead Business Analyst
Location: Washington, DC Metro Area (onsite as required)
Clearance/Screening: High Risk Public Trust required — candidates must complete a Tier 4 background investigation and receive a favorable adjudication prior to placement.
Position Summary
The Lead Business Analyst will have overall responsibility for execution of tasks across the agency portfolio, including envisioning and delivering long-term strategies that meet mission objectives. The lead will translate stakeholder needs into business and technical requirements, provide architecture-level guidance, make decisions related to technical implementations, and communicate complex technical topics to non-technical executive-level stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead systems and business analysis across the IT portfolio: requirements elicitation, business process analysis, workflow mapping, gap analysis, and solution definition.
- Translate stakeholder needs into actionable business and technical requirements and provide application architecture guidance (inventory analysis; component classification; integration approaches).
- Support and participate in governance and lifecycle processes (CPIC, DHS SELC, OMB Exhibit 300, CCBs, and similar forums).
- Lead configuration management activities: configuration identification, change control, status accounting, audits, and documentation.
- Conduct continuous risk assessment and manage mitigation strategies across program execution.
- Support budgeting and financial analysis for programs: maintain budget/spend plans, track obligations/commitments/expenses, perform variance analysis and forecasting, and coordinate with finance and program control specialists.
- Manage and oversee subcontractor work when applicable; ensure timely status reporting and deliverable completion.
- Prepare programmatic/status briefings and participate in proposal/orals preparation and executive-level presentations as needed.
Required Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in IT Systems Engineering, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Minimum 10+ years of relevant professional experience
- Minimum 10 years of experience in systems analysis, business process analysis, requirements analysis/gathering, and related project lifecycle activities.
Required Skills & Technical Qualifications
- 10+ years of technical, business, and solution architecture experience.
- Experience identifying and classifying application components to support business and performance objectives and the technologies they employ; experience analyzing application inventories and developing architecture guidance.
- Experience with DHS SELC and federal governance and investment processes (CPIC, OMB Exhibit 300)
- Proven configuration management and change control experience.
- Familiarity integrating federal cybersecurity and compliance requirements (DHS sensitive systems policy, NIST 800-series, FISMA) into solution designs.
Preferred/Desirable
- Prior DHS or similar federal law enforcement experience (preferred).
- Knowledge of DHS ICE System Lifecycle Management (SLM) preferred.
- Proposal/orals presentation experience (preferred).
- Professional project management certification (PMP, PgMP, or Agile certification) is desired; equivalent experience may be acceptable.
Soft Skills
- Excellent active listening and verbal communication; strong business writing.
- Ability to explain technical issues to non-technical executive-level stakeholders and to elicit cooperation across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Strong leadership and mentoring capability
- Adaptable to shifting priorities and timelines
Tools & Platforms
- Jira/Confluence, ServiceNow, Git/GitHub/GitLab, Microsoft Teams/Outlook/SharePoint, MS Excel/PowerPoint, and earned-value/cost-tracking tools.
#WHYPBG
We have successfully built a company culture based on our single most important asset - our employees. At PBG we are passionate about employee engagement and make it our business to provide our employees a range of challenging and rewarding opportunities that align with business strategy, promote team work and inspire innovation. A job is where you are spending most of your day, so PBG believes in making it a fun, collaborative and productive environment. We want our employees to have the opportunity to grow and be part of a company that is making a lasting contribution to our customers.