Ascension LLC is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a mission-critical, large-scale enterprise application environment serving thousands of users and complex stakeholder groups. This role is essential to ensuring that evolving business, policy, and operational needs are accurately translated into clear, testable, and actionable requirements that support system enhancements, operational continuity, and regulatory compliance.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience working at the intersection of business operations and technology, particularly within public sector or highly regulated environments. This individual will play a critical role in gathering, validating, and managing functional and non-functional requirements across multiple releases, ensuring alignment with stakeholder priorities, technical constraints, accessibility standards, and security requirements.

This position is well suited for a candidate who thrives in complex environments, can navigate ambiguity, and is comfortable working closely with project managers, technical leads, developers, QA teams, and government stakeholders to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Senior Business Analyst serves as a primary liaison between business stakeholders and the technical delivery team. The role focuses on understanding current-state processes, identifying gaps, defining future-state requirements, and ensuring solutions meet operational, policy, and user needs.

This role requires a detail-oriented and analytical professional who can manage competing priorities, anticipate downstream impacts of requirements decisions, and maintain traceability throughout the system development lifecycle. The Senior Business Analyst is expected to support requirements analysis across planning, design, development, testing, and deployment phases, while ensuring compliance with client standards related to accessibility, data security, and system integration.

The successful candidate will demonstrate strong communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to independently drive requirements activities with minimal supervision.

Position Responsibilities and Anticipated Activities

The Senior Business Analyst will:

• Elicit functional and non-functional requirements through stakeholder interviews, workshops, document reviews, and system analysis
• Analyze existing business processes, workflows, and system functionality to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities
• Document clear, concise, and testable requirements including business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria
• Validate requirements with business owners, product stakeholders, and technical teams to ensure shared understanding and approval
• Maintain requirements traceability matrices linking business needs to design, development, and testing artifacts
• Collaborate with project managers to support release planning, scope management, and change control activities
• Support solution design discussions by clarifying business rules, data requirements, and integration needs
• Assist QA teams by reviewing test plans, validating test cases, and supporting user acceptance testing activities
• Ensure requirements align with accessibility standards, security policies, and regulatory obligations
• Prepare and deliver briefing materials, status updates, and documentation for client leadership and governance forums
• Contribute to knowledge transfer activities and the development of standardized templates, processes, and documentation