Business Analyst

Overview

LMI seeks a skilled Business Analyst to support activities related to shipyard modernization as part of enterprise-wide U.S. Navy strategic modernization and improvement efforts. LMI is helping NAVSUP, NAVSEA, and the shipyards use technology to track materiel through the shipyards to address long-standing problems.

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

Responsibilities of the Business Analyst

• Identify, evaluate, and implement new systems and solutions, or identify enhancements to existing systems; define requirements and specifications.
• Lead the collection, capture, and management of mission user needs from prioritization, concept development, epic and feature creation, and user story writing to support development and deployment as a business analyst subject matter expert.
• Liaise between software development teams, logistics and warehouse SMEs (including users and proxy users), and technical solution leadership to ensure that product development, customization, and/or integration aligns with overall architecture, systems, and human centered design (HCD) best practices.
• Facilitate the gathering of business-focused requirements to support product development teams, and product owners, including defining the backlog and ensuring the user's perspective is considered.
• Work with the product owner and users to determine the operational objectives of business needs and elicit requirements.
• Focus on requirements related to improved usability, user experience, and user adoption and engagement.
• Manage a register of stakeholder relationships to product team technical leadership, functional representatives, and user representatives.
• Conduct necessary research and discovery to serve as de facto subject matter expert, supporting development teams in the integration and development of complex business systems.
• Identify core business needs, decompose, and document concepts of operation, story maps, briefings, and user stories, document business rules, and construct workflow diagrams, as needed.
• Condense complex business processes into clear and actionable epics, features, and user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Work with Product Management, Technical Leadership, and mission stakeholders to review, update, and maintain a business process roadmap of the to-be system and evaluate areas of reengineering by outlining potential to-be processes.
• Work with Product Management, Technical Leadership, and mission stakeholders establish and monitor baseline key performance indicators (KPI)/metrics for system development an integration.
• Provide data analysis expertise to measure and report on progress towards objectives and key results, including both development/delivery metrics and business process outcomes.

Qualifications

LMI requires candidates to possess the following qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in information technology (IT) management, business analysis, system engineering, and/or IT requirements management.
• Well-developed analytical, diagnostic, and system-thinking skills.
• Experience as a Product Owner or in a business or requirements analyst role.
• Experience working on systems integration projects that span hardware and software solutions.
• Ability to effectively manage stakeholder relationships and expectations while developing and refining agile requirements.
• Ability to develop artifacts to support requirements documentation, including user journey maps, data flow diagrams, interface analyses, information architecture diagrams, etc.
• Experience with agile requirements management tools.
• Experience in business process improvement and reengineering.
• Experience working in an agile software development framework.
• Education: Master’s degree or equivalent work experience in IT/information systems, business administration, computer science, or mathematics or equivalent experience.
• Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance, for which one must be a US citizen. Active Secret clearance desired.

Preferred Qualifications

Ideal candidates will also have the following:

• Experience conducting business and/or system analysis on Navy software and systems, namely those focused on logistics and asset management.
• Experience defining requirements for or working with RFID scanner technology.
• Understanding of military inventory and asset management principles and business processes.
• Experience integrating and/or customizing consumer-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology into an enterprise system.
• Experience conducting business analysis and defining system and user requirements for enterprise resource and asset management (e.g., asset tracking/availability, warehouse operations, etc.) software or systems.
• Experience in business and/or system analysis to support cloud migration and/or technical stack modernization efforts.
• Familiarity with industry best practices regarding cloud infrastructure, system availability/reliability requirements, application scalability, and system migration.
• Experience with GitLab as an agile project management tool.
• Experience working in a scaled agile framework (e.g., SAFe).
• Professional industry standard certification in business analysis (e.g., CCBA, Agile Product Owner, Agile Analysis Certification).
• Professional industry standard certification in human centered design.
• Professional industry standard certification in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Key skills/competency

• Business Analysis
• Requirements Management
• System Integration
• Agile Development
• Stakeholder Management
• User Story Writing
• Data Analysis
• Process Improvement
• Human Centered Design (HCD)
• Government Security Clearance