Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ITility is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst to support a mission-critical enterprise modernization contract with the Department of Defense (DoD). This role involves acting as a liaison between Government stakeholders and cloud development teams, translating operational requirements into secure solutions within an AWS cloud environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex requirements elicitation sessions with Government stakeholders, subject matter experts, and executive leadership using structured facilitation techniques such as interviews, workshops, and document analysis
- Translate business, operational, and compliance needs into structured functional and non-functional requirements
- Own the end-to-end requirements lifecycle from discovery through production deployment using Confluence and Jira
- Decompose system capabilities into epics, features, and detailed user stories and acceptance criteria to Agile delivery practices
- Maintain bidirectional traceability in Jira between requirements, design artifacts, test cases, acceptance criteria and release deliverables
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and user acceptance testing
- Support Product Owner in backlog prioritization aligned to mission value and operational impact
- Ensure acceptance criteria and test scenarios documented in Jira are sufficient for internal QA/Test execution and coordinate the transition of validated stories to stakeholder QAT events
- Coordinate with QAT/UAT stakeholders to facilitate testing, validate functional outcomes against documented requirements, and disposition defects or change requests back through the appropriate Jira boards
- Analyze user feedback and system performance metrics to inform feature enhancements and continuous improvement
- Develop clear, concise technical documentation, draft training materials, and executive-level briefings
- Partner with AWS cloud development teams supporting Ruby on Rails backend services, React front-end applications, PostgreSQL databases, and GraphQL APIs
- Support design discussions by providing functional context for data models, database structures, access control requirements, and role-based entitlement needs
- Provide functional guidance on data modeling, database design considerations, and API schema structures
- Coordinate with UI/UX designers to ensure user-centered design principles are reflected in requirements and contribute to wireframes or prototypes as needed to validate stakeholder intent
- Support integration patterns leveraging AWS services such as CloudWatch, SQS, and SNS
- Contribute to architecture and design reviews to ensure alignment with mission scalability and performance requirements
- Collaborate within a DevSecOps pipeline supporting CI/CD, automated testing, and secure release management
- Ensure requirements incorporate DoD security controls, role-based access controls, and least-privilege models
- Identify functional risks, integration gaps, and system impacts; recommend mitigation strategies
- Contribute to audit readiness and ATO sustainment activities
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Government leadership, technical teams, and cross-functional stakeholders
- Deliver functional briefings and support training sessions to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Promote transparent communication and collaborative problem-solving across distributed teams
Skills
- US Citizenship required, with ability to pass an IT-II background investigation; active Secret clearance preferred
- Minimum of eight (8) years of progressive experience in functional analysis, business systems analysis, or requirements engineering supporting federal IT systems
- Demonstrated experience supporting AWS cloud-native application development environments
- Experience operating within Agile or DevSecOps delivery environments using Confluence and Jira
- Demonstrated experience constructing workflow diagrams, data flow diagrams, interface specifications, and requirements traceability matrices
- Strong analytical and systems-thinking mindset with exceptional attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience briefing executive-level stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent professional experience)
- Experience supporting applications built on Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL
- Active DoD Secret clearance
- Working knowledge of AWS services including CloudWatch, SQS, and SNS
- Experience supporting DoD or federal acquisition programs
- Experience supporting systems operating under DoD RMF and cybersecurity compliance frameworks
- Agile certification (CSM, SAFe, or equivalent)
Benefits
- Remote position with occasional travel (10%) to government installations
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