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Salesforce Business Analyst
Location
Virginia
Posted
42 days ago
Salary
$81.5K - $138.5K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Salesforce Business Analyst
ICF
• Work with client stakeholders, product owners, architects, developers, testers, and operations teams to gather, analyze, document, and validate business and technical requirements for Salesforce applications and shared services • Translate stakeholder needs into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, requirements documentation, and supporting delivery artifacts • Support backlog refinement by helping clarify priorities, identify dependencies, resolve ambiguity, and prepare user stories for development and testing • Analyze current-state business processes and identify opportunities to modernize workflows, reduce manual effort, improve data quality, and improve user experience • Facilitate requirements sessions, stakeholder interviews, working sessions, demos, user group discussions, and review meetings • Support Salesforce configuration and development teams by clarifying requirements, answering functional questions, and validating that delivered functionality meets acceptance criteria • Coordinate with QA teams to support test planning, test case development, defect triage, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and production readiness • Support release readiness activities, including requirements traceability, stakeholder communications, validation evidence, release notes, training inputs, and post-release feedback • Document decisions, risks, issues, dependencies, action items, and stakeholder feedback in project tools and knowledge repositories • Support change control by documenting requested changes, assessing business impact, coordinating review, and helping track approvals through implementation • Maintain clear documentation for business processes, system functionality, user guidance, standard operating procedures, and knowledge base content • Work within formal security, privacy, Section 508, documentation, and production support expectations for a regulated federal environment
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- 8+ years of experience supporting business analysis, requirements analysis, product analysis, systems analysis, or IT delivery
- 3+ years of experience supporting Salesforce, CRM, SaaS platform, low-code/no-code platform, or enterprise application delivery
- Ability to obtain and maintain a federal public trust clearance or equivalent client-required background investigation
- Must have lived in the US 3 full years out of the last 5 years
Benefits
- Reasonable Accommodations
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
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