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Job overview
The Lead Business Analyst supports two product teams, leading complex business analysis work from requirements gathering through implementation. The role guides lower-level analysts, facilitates analysis and design sessions, oversees user acceptance testing, and coordinates issue resolution and project delivery. It requires a bachelor's degree or an experience substitute, eight years of relevant analytical experience, and strong Jira and SAFe Agile proficiency; Aha, cloud migration, and healthcare experience are preferred.
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Job Title: Lead Business Analyst
Location: Reston, VA
Type: Contract
Compensation: $69.7
Work Model: Hybrid
Responsibilities
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Interprets business needs and issues by gathering, eliciting, creating, analyzing, documenting and validating the Business area’s user and/or technical (functional/non-functional) requirements.
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Key contributor in the creation of project plans to define, organize and schedule requirements management and development activities.
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Provides oversight and strategic direction to lower level analysts which includes coaching, mentoring, and delegating of tasks and deliverables.
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Facilitates requirements analysis and verification sessions.
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Accountable in the tracking and management of open issues and assists in planning for resolution.
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Responsible for successful development sessions and design reviews in order to ensure design meets user requirements.
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Responsible for overall success of user acceptance testing, including documentation, verification and release.
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Implements practices and procedures for end user test plans.
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Identifies and documents gaps in requirement adherence or system deficiencies/defects and coordinates appropriate action through issue resolution.
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Leads in creating formal communication to be delivered to relevant stakeholders.
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Providing guidance and training to application end users.
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Identifies, documents and troubleshoots problems with their in-depth knowledge of the relationships in systems, software and processes.
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Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to monitor, report and resolve issues.
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Participates in the development of solutions and workarounds that solve high complexity technical, system and/or business issues.
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Reviews, analyzes and creates detailed documentation of business systems, processes, software and user needs.
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Responsible for writing all documentation to established standards, in a clear and well organized manner.
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Develops and/or collaborates in key project and requirement deliverables for projects of high complexity.
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Monitors and reports project status to identify and mitigate risks and to ensure quality and timely deliverables.
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Coordinates assigned projects from concept through implementation.
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Prioritize and manage new work requests.
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Answers policy-related questions for business process, systems and software which require research and consultation with others internally and externally.
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Perform standard business analyst duties, work independently, quickly learner.
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This will support two teams’ products, and candidate should be able to work and take ownership of both.
Requirements
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Education Level: Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Finance or related field.
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Master's Degree MBA is preferred.
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Experience: 8 years progressive experience in business analysis, systems analysis, testing or other analytical experience
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In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
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Demonstrated ability to have led the deliver of high quality, effective deliverables on-time and be a significant contributor to the development of cost-effective solutions.
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Expert understanding of business analysis core competencies
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Prior business analysis coaching and mentoring experience
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Strong Jira proficiency and knowledge of SAFe Agile methodology are required.
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Good communication skills
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Can work independently
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Proactive.
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Aha proficiency is preferred.
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A technical background in cloud technologies and migrations is preferred.
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Healthcare background is preferred.
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Strong time-management and organizational skills, Expert
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Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, Expert
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Ability to organize stakeholder meetings., Expert
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Use of Microsoft Office applications., Expert
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Ability to train and mentor others., Expert
System One, and its subsidiaries including Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.
System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé, ALTA IT Services, CM Access, TPGS, and MOUNTAIN, LTD., are leaders in delivering workforce solutions and integrated services across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible full-time employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.
System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
How this job compares
Set against the 5,978 open Business Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$69.7/hr
- Virginia median$30–37/hr21 hourly ranges
- US median$34–55/hr479 hourly ranges
This rate, $69.70/hr, is 107% above the Virginia median midpoint ($34/hr) — in the top quarter of Business Analyst hourly ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 385 open Business Analyst jobs in Virginia and 5,978 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc.42 open
- Capital One35 open
- Accenture24 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Business Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 4,785 postings).
- Education
- 2,379 of the 5,978 open Business Analyst jobs (40%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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