Senior Consultant - Principal Business Analyst

Oxford was founded in 2009, focusing on the federal information technology marketplace. Oxford is ideally suited for the current technology and health care services needs of the large and growing federal government market. Oxford understands the most complex challenges facing the federal government today and knows that those challenges demand complex solutions supported by high-caliber employees.

Job Summary:

• Business requirements are to be analyzed, developed, defined, and documented for enhancements, new functionality, and sustainment/maintenance of a very large and complex Federal loan system. 
• The Principal Business Analyst will interview key stakeholders and relevant support staff to determine business requirements, create process flows, work flows, and narrative to document the business requirements. 
• Working with other components of the software development life cycle (SDLC), all requirements must be identified and fully documented, reviewed, and accepted. 
• The Principal Business Analyst will work individually and in a team environment.
• Focus is on listening, analyzing, documenting, verifying, and finalizing requirements which are then used by designers, developers, and testers to complete the SDLC and implement new functionality via scheduled software releases.    

• Elicits requirements through documentation analysis, communication, interviews, JAD sessions and other techniques as needed. These activities include co-workers, Federal customers, and subject matter experts.    
• Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements. Look for derived requirements that are a logical consequence of the customers’ requests, as well as implicit requirements that haven’t been verbalized.    
• Define business rules, quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements.    
• Write requirements specifications, using standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely.    
• Participate in peer reviews and inspections of requirements documents. Identify ambiguous, conflicting, incorrect, or incomplete requirements.    

Experience/Requirements: 

• U.S. citizenship.
• At least five years of IT requirements analysis and development experience.    
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Student loan servicing software or financial systems experience.
• Experience with Federal government contracts and comprehensive support to the SDLC.
• An understanding of requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice.
• Strong analytical, planning, problem solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders.
• Analytical skills to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding, distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements.
• Ability to interact professionally with a diverse group including executives, managers, and Federal technical subject matter experts and clients.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Understanding of financial systems and processing.
• Independent thinking and decision-making skills.
• In-depth knowledge of and experience with similar large-scale IT systems and the support required to operate, maintain, and enhance those systems.  
• Ability to conduct requirements gathering meetings and interactive sessions with end-users and other system stakeholders; facilitate discussions; and reach consensus/decisions.
• Knowledge and experience with debt management systems and software a plus.
• Knowledge and experience with Federal student loans a plus.