Business Analyst (TTB)

About Pluribus Digital: Join us and do work that matters: use your skills to improve how your government serves the public! Pluribus Digital partners with our government customers to design, develop, and deliver useful and impactful digital products. We are a hands-on digital services consultancy – part technologists, part change agents, and all heart.  We employ modern best practices in all that we do as we work to solve problems in public health, financial industry regulation, granting citizenship and asylum, and identity and access management.

Role Overview

As a Business Analyst, you will play a key role in supporting the modernization of TTB’s Permits Online (PONL) system as part of the myTTB platform. This effort is focused on delivering modern, scalable digital services to industry members through an agile and DevSecOps-driven software delivery model. In this role, you will translate complex regulatory and operational business needs into clear, actionable technical requirements that support modernization of the permits application and processing experience. You will work closely with product owners, technical leads, architects, testers, and stakeholders across TTB to ensure solutions align with mission objectives, federal SDLC standards, and continuous delivery practices.

The Business Analyst works in close alignment with the Product Team Lead and Product Owners, serving as the primary steward of business and functional requirements while maintaining high-quality backlog management in Jira and supporting Agile ceremonies to promote transparency and collaboration across the delivery team. We’re looking for a proactive, high-energy team player who thrives in a fast-paced modernization environment. Someone who takes ownership, seeks opportunities to add value, and embodies the Pluribus principles will be a great match for this role.

What You Will Do

Requirements Gathering & Analysis

• Lead requirements elicitation sessions with TTB product owners, subject matter experts, and program stakeholders to capture business needs related to the modernization of the Permits Online (PONL) system.
• Analyze and decompose high-level regulatory, operational, and user needs into well-defined epics, features, and user stories aligned with Agile and SDLC standards.
• Develop and maintain requirements documentation including:
• Business process models
• Use cases
• Data and integration requirements
• Acceptance criteria
• Traceability matrices
• Validate requirements with stakeholders to ensure alignment with myTTB modernization objectives, system architecture, and federal compliance standards.
• Support analysis of legacy PONL functionality to help inform modernization decisions and feature prioritization.

Jira & Confluence Management

• Manage and refine the Jira backlog to ensure user stories are complete, testable, and prioritized in collaboration with product owners.
• Create and maintain detailed story descriptions, acceptance criteria, and traceability to ensure full lifecycle coverage across the SDLC.
• Support sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release readiness by maintaining high-quality backlog hygiene and documentation.
• Create and maintain dashboards, reports, and metrics in Jira to support sprint tracking, release visibility, and leadership reporting.
• Organize and maintain project documentation in Confluence, including sprint summaries, functional artifacts, and analysis documentation.

Agile & Product Delivery Support

• Partner with the Product Team Lead and Product Owners to support Agile delivery ceremonies, including:
• Daily stand-ups
• Backlog refinement
• Sprint planning
• Sprint reviews / demos
• Retrospectives
• Serve as a backup facilitator for Agile ceremonies when needed.
• Support Program Increment (PI) planning and SAFe Agile practices as part of the broader DO-SDS delivery model.
• Maintain strong requirements traceability across stories, tasks, testing artifacts, and releases.
• Collaborate closely with developers, architects, and testers to clarify requirements, refine stories, and resolve blockers.

Documentation & Reporting

• Contribute to program and project status reporting, highlighting progress, risks, metrics, and key accomplishments related to the Permits modernization effort.
• Develop written deliverables such as:
• User guides
• Release notes
• Process documentation
• Requirements artifacts
• Ensure deliverables maintain accuracy, clarity, and alignment with TTB documentation standards.

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