Lead Business Analyst

ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages embraces and hires dimensions of difference.

Our Health Engineering Systems (HES) team works side by side with customers to articulate a vision for success and then make it happen. We know success doesnt happen by accident. It takes the right team of people working together on the right solutions for the customer.

We are seeking an experienced Lead Salesforce Business Analyst to support Product Owners and delivery teams in defining refining and managing Salesforce requirements throughout the software development lifecycle. This individual will serve as the liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams ensuring Salesforce solutions are aligned with business objectives and delivered with clearly defined requirements and acceptance criteria.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience supporting Salesforce implementations managing Agile delivery processes and owning user stories from initial requirements gathering through development testing UAT and production deployment.

You will be working on a mission-critical software program whose goal is to consolidate modernize and enhance a suite of applications supporting Medicaid operations.

Our core work hours are 10am to 4pm Eastern Time with the option to start earlier or work later depending on your time zone.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with Product Owners business stakeholders architects and Salesforce delivery teams to gather analyze document and refine business requirements.
• Lead requirements elicitation sessions stakeholder interviews workshops and discovery activities to identify business needs and desired outcomes.
• Translate business requirements into detailed user stories process flows functional specifications and acceptance criteria.
• Own user stories throughout the entire Agile lifecycle ensuring requirements remain clear prioritized and development-ready.
• Manage story refinement activities ensuring development teams have sufficient detail to estimate and implement solutions.
• Support Product Owners with backlog management prioritization release planning and roadmap execution.
• Collaborate with Salesforce developers administrators architects and QA teams to ensure solutions meet business requirements.
• Validate requirements through system demonstrations testing activities and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement sprint planning sprint reviews and stakeholder demonstrations.
• Track requirements dependencies risks assumptions and decisions throughout the project lifecycle.
• Create and maintain business process documentation user guides workflow diagrams and requirements artifacts.
• Support release management activities and ensure successful deployment of Salesforce enhancements and new functionality.
• Analyze current business processes and recommend Salesforce best practice solutions to improve efficiency and user experience.
• Assist with change management stakeholder communications and user adoption activities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree.
• Three (3) years of experience leading Business Analyst supporting enterprise software development projects.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience supporting Salesforce implementations or Salesforce-based business solutions.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Candidate must reside in the United States be authorized to work in the United States and work must be performed in the United States.
• Must have lived in the United States three full years out of the last five years.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree.
• Salesforce Administrator Certification.
• Salesforce Business Analyst Certification.
• Experience gathering and documenting functional and non-functional requirements.
• Experience writing detailed user stories acceptance criteria business process flows and functional specifications.
• Experience supporting Agile and SAFe delivery methodologies.
• Experience working directly with Product Owners and managing product backlogs.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce platform capabilities including Sales Cloud Service Cloud Experience Cloud or custom Salesforce applications.
• Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and defect management processes.
• Experience supporting Medicaid healthcare or government modernization programs.
• Experience working within Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environments.
• Knowledge of Salesforce platform configuration security model workflows reporting dashboards flows and case management.
• Experience partnering with Salesforce developers and solution architects on large-scale implementations.
• Familiarity with Salesforce DevOps and release management processes.
• Experience supporting Human-Centered Design (HCD) initiatives.

Professional Skills

• Strong elicitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate complex business needs into actionable Salesforce user stories and requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong facilitation and workshop leadership skills.
• Experience managing competing priorities across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Strong analytical problem-solving and organizational abilities.
• Ability to identify risks dependencies and impacts across business and technical teams.
• Experience using Jira Confluence Azure DevOps or similar Agile work management tools.
• Strong understanding of Agile metrics and continuous improvement practices.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with business users technical teams architects and executive leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to drive requirements from concept through deployment and adoption.

Key Success Measures

• Accurately captures and documents business requirements.
• Delivers well-defined development-ready user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Owns stories throughout the lifecycle from intake through production deployment.
• Effectively supports Product Owner backlog management and prioritization activities.
• Improves stakeholder engagement and satisfaction.
• Ensures Salesforce solutions align with business objectives and user needs.
• Supports on-time high-quality delivery of Salesforce enhancements and releases.

Job Location: This position requires that the job be performed in the United States. If you accept this position you should note that ICF monitors employee work locations and blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses and prohibits personal VPN connections.

Working at ICF

We can only solve the worlds toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity our employees are empowered to share theirexpertiseand collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information please read ourEEOpolicy.

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Work Authorization and Sponsorship

All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for new H-1B visa sponsorship by ICF. Candidates who currently hold valid work authorization may be considered for a change of employer petition subject to company policy and applicable immigration requirements.

Reasonable Accommodations

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Pay Range

There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position including but not limited to relevant work experience skills certifications and competencies that align to the specified role geographic location education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

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