Sr. Business Analyst (Grants Management)

The Health and Services Operation of Leidos is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to work either full-time remotely or onsite full-time supporting our NIH (National Institutes of Health) client in Bethesda, MD.

The Senior BA will serve as a primary coordination interface between the programs teams and partner federal agencies, supporting onboarding, ongoing engagement, and operational readiness activities. This candidate will need to bring deep grants management experience and a demonstrated ability to communicate complex system capabilities to executive and partner audiences.

Candidates MUST:

• US Citizen or Green Card holder with the ability to obtain and maintain HHS Public Trust clearance

• Be currently located in the UNITED STATES for the CURRENT three consecutive years

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Quickly develop a thorough understanding of system functionality and be able to present both "big picture" overviews and detailed deep-dives to new and prospective partners, in collaboration with relevant Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).

• Serve as the primary coordination interface for assigned federal partner organizations during onboarding and throughout ongoing engagement activities.

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with partner agency representatives, business teams, and technical support organizations to ensure continuity of service.

• Coordinate and actively participate in partner-facing activities including onboarding discussions, implementation reviews, service assessments, and operational readiness activities.

• Prepare and facilitate information exchange between partner organizations and business teams to support alignment on priorities, timelines, dependencies, and service impacts.

• Prepare executive briefings for Senior Leadership and partner stakeholders.

• Analyze, identify, and communicate coordination gaps, unresolved issues, and operational risks to appropriate stakeholders.

• Maintain onboarding milestones, open action items, partner concerns, and issue resolution status for all assigned partner organizations.

• Coordinate follow-up activities with relevant parties to support timely resolution of open items.

• Escalate unresolved issues, service concerns, or operational risks to management or designated alternate in accordance with established escalation procedures.

• Utilize requirements elicitation techniques to gather business requirements from system stakeholders as needed to support partner engagements.

• Support Product Owners and Team Leads in planning, road mapping, and monitoring project work related to partner activities.

• Maintain requirements traceability and other documentation following agile principles.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree or higher and a minimum of 8 years of experience working in the Information Technology field directly as a Business/Systems Analyst, WITH a minimum of 2 years in a SENIOR or LEAD capacity.

• Demonstrated experience with federal grants management, ideally with full lifecycle exposure (pre-award, award, and post-award).

• Direct experience with the NIH grants management system or a comparable federal grants management system.

• A minimum of 3 years of experience documenting and managing requirements and conducting requirements analysis in an Agile environment.

• A minimum of 3 years of experience eliciting system requirements using standard techniques such as interviews, user groups, surveys, and documentation review.

• Experience preparing executive-level briefings and communication materials for senior leadership audiences.

• Experience serving as a primary point of contact or relationship manager for external stakeholders or partner organizations.

• Demonstrated experience working with cross-functional teams including developers, testers, and business stakeholders.

• Demonstrated experience marketing and presenting system functionality to prospective partner agencies, including the ability to tailor demonstrations to varied audiences ranging from executive stakeholders to technical teams.

• Must have excellent written and oral communication skills — clear, succinct, and executive-ready.

• Must be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, matrixed team environment with a client-centric culture.

• Must be able to multi-task and shift priorities as needed in response to evolving partner needs.

• Must be able to work effectively with diverse stakeholder types — f