Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Leidos is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support a federal grants management program. This role involves acting as a liaison between program teams and federal agencies, focusing on stakeholder engagement, operational readiness, and business analysis.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned federal partner agencies during onboarding and ongoing engagement
- Build strong relationships with partner agencies, business stakeholders, and technical teams
- Gather, analyze, document, and manage business requirements using Agile methodologies
- Facilitate partner onboarding, implementation discussions, operational readiness reviews, and stakeholder meetings
- Present system functionality to executive, business, and technical audiences, tailoring demonstrations to meet customer needs
- Prepare executive briefings, status reports, and stakeholder communications
- Coordinate activities across business and technical teams to ensure alignment on priorities, timelines, and dependencies
- Track onboarding milestones, risks, action items, and issue resolution
- Identify operational risks, recommend solutions, and escalate issues when appropriate
- Collaborate with Product Owners and delivery teams to support planning, road mapping, and continuous improvement
Skills
- Be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder with the ability to obtain and maintain an HHS Public Trust clearance
- Have resided within the United States for the past three consecutive years
- Have direct federal grants management experience from the grantor/awarding agency side
- Demonstrate knowledge and experience of the full federal grants lifecycle, including pre-award, award, post-award administration, monitoring, compliance, amendments, and closeout
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, or related role
- Minimum of 2 years in a Senior, Lead, or equivalent leadership capacity
- Demonstrated experience supporting federal grants management programs from the awarding agency perspective
- Direct experience supporting the NIH grants management system or a comparable federal grants management platform
- Minimum of 3 years of experience documenting and managing business requirements in an Agile environment
- Experience eliciting requirements through interviews, workshops, and stakeholder engagement
- Experience preparing executive-level briefings and presentations
- Experience serving as the primary liaison for external stakeholders or partner organizations
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Experience supporting NIH, HHS, or other federal civilian agencies
- Knowledge of 2 CFR 200 (Uniform Guidance) and federal grants regulations
- Experience with enterprise grants management systems or federal shared-service platforms
- CBAP, PMI-PBA, Scrum, or SAFe certification
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