Senior Business Analyst
First seen by Alion on Sep 22, 2026.
Role Overview:
The ideal candidate has prior experience with more than one of the IAM tools and process listed, such as IGA, SailPoint, and UER. The role involves working with RBAC, AuthN/Z, OKTA, RSA, AWS, Azure, and vaulting tools like CA and Hashi.
The candidate will have experience in processes including design, deployment, adoption, provisioning, deprovisioning, and protocols and standards. They must possess the skill to effectively communicate and liaise with both business and technical stakeholders to integrate IAM tools into the enterprise, making certain proper access governance is achieved. The Business Analyst is also responsible for maintaining the integrity of the requirements throughout the integration life cycle.
Primary responsibilities:
- Collaborating with key stakeholders and other available resources, facilitating discussions, analyzing and evaluating options, and providing recommended courses of action to remain compliant, meeting both policy and integration requirements.
- Conducting business needs and functional/non-functional requirements elicitation and completing functional requirements documentation through the full sign-off process for IAM tool integration and maintenance requirements.
- Managing all tasks assigned within scope, quality, and timeframe allocated and being accountable for those tasks.
- Proactively identifying and recording risks, issues, dependencies, and assumptions in accordance with policy and process standards.
- Agreeing on escalation levels with management, then managing those risks through to resolution, including the required evidence.
- Assist in the development and maintenance of IAM policies, standards, procedures, and control documentation.
- Perform data analysis to identify access anomalies, orphan accounts, uncorrelated accounts, stale access, and control deficiencies.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years previous experience as a Business Analyst, including requirements elicitation.
- Previous experience with Agile methodology leveraging JIRA.
- Strong understanding of one or more of the following: Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Authentication, Authorization, and Federation concepts.
- Hands on experience with one or more of the following: IGA SailPoint, Okta/Ping/MFA, CyberArk, and Hashi.
- Demonstrated experience leading application onboarding and IAM integration initiatives across complex enterprise environments, including coordination of application owners, development teams, information security, risk, compliance, and infrastructure stakeholders.
- Experience working with cloud environments such as AWS and Azure, including IAM-related capabilities.
- Flexibility to work on a variety of projects and initiatives.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical, organizational, time management, and planning skills.
- Adaptive to environments of change; able to reprioritize with competing priorities.
- Sense of urgency to respond to requests with strict deadlines.
- Thought provoking; ability to ask questions and probe to gain full understanding of requirements.
- Familiar with Software Development Lifecycle processes.
- Competent use of Microsoft Office applications to include Microsoft Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Immediate serving notice period preferred.
Skills
IT Business Analyst, IT Project Management