• Lead structured discovery & business case development for enterprise-level strategic initiatives. • Elicit, analyze, and document business, functional, and non-functional requirements. • Facilitate complex stakeholder interviews, workshops, and working sessions. • Ensure requirements are validated, prioritized, and aligned to strategic objectives. • Provide analysis and recommendations to inform solution options, tradeoffs, and implementation approaches. • Analyze current-state processes, workflows, and systems. • Identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement. • Develop future-state process designs aligned to business goals and strategic outcomes. • Support change impact analysis and readiness planning. • Conduct user, member, or stakeholder journey mapping. • Perform value stream mapping to identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities. • Ensure initiatives are designed to deliver measurable business value and outcomes. • Translate requirements into executable work items and delivery plans. • Support backlog creation, refinement, and prioritization. • Clarify requirements throughout execution to reduce rework and scope churn. • Act as a bridge between business stakeholders, delivery teams, and vendors. • Provide project leadership for select initiatives, ensuring continuity from discovery through delivery. • Manage scope, timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder communication. • Ensure delivered solutions align to approved requirements and intended outcomes. • Support initiative scoping and readiness for portfolio intake. • Ensure initiatives entering execution are sufficiently defined and outcome-oriented. • Provide analysis and insight to support sequencing, capacity planning, and prioritization. • Contribute to the development and maturation of enterprise business analysis practices. • Help establish BA standards, templates, and toolkits in partnership with delivery leadership. • Support continuous improvement of analysis and discovery practices across initiatives. • Perform all other duties as assigned.

• Develop creative solutions for real business challenges • Collaborate on cross-functional projects to identify areas for improvement • Analyze internal processes, data, and problems • Identify benefits from enabling new capabilities within the business • Improve how Cisco operates and how we work together

• Analyzing existing code to assess the feasibility of business requirements and proposing solution options. • Collaborating closely with business analysts and stakeholders to clarify and refine requirements. • Communicating potential solutions clearly and concisely to all involved parties. • Estimating the effort required to implement solutions effectively. • Supporting quality engineers as needed, though this will not be the primary focus of your role. • Working collaboratively with the engineering lead, business analysts, engineers, project managers, and business stakeholders to drive projects forward. • Discussing and evaluating software design options with the engineering lead. • Familiarity with user story writing and employing the Gherkin syntax to draft acceptance criteria, ensuring clarity and alignment with business objectives. • Involvement in triaging production defects, including conducting root cause analysis to determine the underlying issues and contributing to their resolution.

Title: Business Data Analyst III Location: Remote Position Type: Full-Time About VivSoft: At VivSoft, we aim to solve complex federal problems using emerging and open technologies in a collaborative and rewarding environment. VivSoft is a diverse team of strategists, engineers, designers, and creators experienced in building high-performance effective software, with impactful organizational design and organizational dynamics for software delivery. We build secure Software Factories based on DoD reference designs and NIST Frameworks for Cloud and DevSecOps. These factories deliver AI/ML Applications, Data Science Platforms, Blockchain and Microservices for DoD, Healthcare and Civilian Agencies. Job Summary: The Business Data Analyst III provides advanced analytical and decision‑support services across DLA portfolio programs. This role supports business case development, project and portfolio planning, business process reengineering (BPR), and performance measurement activities. The analyst works within a matrixed environment, leveraging enterprise tools and data to deliver actionable insights, support leadership decision‑making, and improve IT and business operations. Key Responsibilities: - Provide analytical support to DLA portfolio and program initiatives in a matrixed environment. - Conduct business case analyses to support investment, modernization, and operational decisions. - Support project planning, task tracking, and performance reporting efforts. - Perform business process reengineering (BPR) to improve efficiency and effectiveness. - Analyze and report on IT performance metrics and key operational indicators. - Develop data‑driven reports, dashboards, and executive briefings. - Present and defend analytical findings and recommendations to stakeholders and leadership. - Support enterprise task management, portfolio tracking, and service management functions using DLA‑approved tools. Required Skills & Qualifications: - Must possess an active Secret security clearance at the time of proposal. - Experience: Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience in business or data analysis - Strong working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite, including MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, and MS PowerPoint. - Experience supporting Project Management activities - Proficiency using data analysis and reporting tools - Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and critical‑thinking skills - Excellent written and verbal communication skills - Certification: Must hold a relevant certification from a nationally recognized authority Preferred Skills: - Experience with Microsoft Power BI - Familiarity with DLA and DoD enterprise systems and tools, including the DLA Task Management Tool (TMT), DLA SharePoint, EFM Portfolio Task Management and Tracking System, and the PEO Task Tracker. - Experience using ServiceNow, including Program Management, Project Management, Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM), IT Service Management (ITSM), and Routing Assignment Visualization for Enterprise Needs (RAVEN). - Prior experience supporting DLA or other DoD agencies - Ability to work in fast‑paced, regulated government environments - Experience briefing senior government stakeholders Benefits: - Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans (Healthcare benefits are 100% employer-paid for employees only) - Life Insurance - Paid Time Off (Flexible/Combined PTO, Bereavement Leave, 11 Company Paid Holidays) - 401K Retirement Plan with employer match - Professional Development Training Reimbursement.