The Role
Job Title: Business Analyst (NOAA)
Company: BLN24
About Us: We find strength in teamwork-a better you is a better us
BLN24 is an award-winning Management Consulting Firm that supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving their mission and goals. Our service and solutions delivery start with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance strategic and technical operations and deployments.
Overview
Join a mission-driven team supporting the National Weather Service (NWS) within NOAA as we modernize legacy applications and integrate emerging technologies to advance public safety, forecasting accuracy, and national weather resilience. As a Business Analyst, you will serve as a critical liaison between stakeholders, developers, and leadership to ensure technical solutions align with user needs, operational objectives, and federal standards.
You will play a key role in capturing business and functional requirements for the modernization of applications such as Local Storm Reports (LSR), Public Information Statements (PNS), and the Storm Event Database (SED), as well as supporting the exploration of Generative AI use cases and future modernization initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
Requirements Elicitation & Stakeholder Engagement
Application Modernization Support
AI & Innovation Analysis
Documentation & Change Management
Agile Project Participation
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
What BLN24 brings to the Game:
BLN24 benefits are game changing. We like our team to play hard and that means they need to be taken care of — physically, financially, and emotionally. We make sure to keep them in the game by giving them access to generous medical, dental, and vision plans.
Company: BLN24
About Us: We find strength in teamwork-a better you is a better us
BLN24 is an award-winning Management Consulting Firm that supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving their mission and goals. Our service and solutions delivery start with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance strategic and technical operations and deployments.
Overview
Join a mission-driven team supporting the National Weather Service (NWS) within NOAA as we modernize legacy applications and integrate emerging technologies to advance public safety, forecasting accuracy, and national weather resilience. As a Business Analyst, you will serve as a critical liaison between stakeholders, developers, and leadership to ensure technical solutions align with user needs, operational objectives, and federal standards.
You will play a key role in capturing business and functional requirements for the modernization of applications such as Local Storm Reports (LSR), Public Information Statements (PNS), and the Storm Event Database (SED), as well as supporting the exploration of Generative AI use cases and future modernization initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
Requirements Elicitation & Stakeholder Engagement
- Facilitate meetings, workshops, and interviews with NOAA/NWS stakeholders to gather, validate, and refine business, functional, and technical requirements.
- Translate complex operational needs into clear, actionable user stories, process flows, and acceptance criteria.
- Ensure business requirements align with NOAA’s mission objectives, existing capabilities, and future-state architecture.
Application Modernization Support
- Analyze legacy systems and business processes to define modernization priorities, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
- Collaborate with developers and technical leads to ensure system designs meet user expectations and federal usability standards.
- Help ensure consistent functionality, data flow, and output formats are preserved or enhanced during the transition to modern platforms.
AI & Innovation Analysis
- Partner with Data and AI Engineers to identify use cases for Generative AI that can drive operational efficiencies or enhance NOAA workflows.
- Conduct feasibility assessments and risk evaluations related to AI adoption, in alignment with federal guidance on AI ethics and security.
Documentation & Change Management
- Develop and maintain clear documentation including business process models, requirement traceability matrices (RTMs), user guides, and test plans.
- Support change management activities including training materials, stakeholder communications, and deployment readiness reviews.
- Assist in the creation and execution of UAT test cases to validate delivered functionality against business requirements.
Agile Project Participation
- Work as part of a cross-functional Agile team, contributing to sprint planning, backlog grooming, and daily stand-ups.
- Prioritize features and bugs based on business impact and stakeholder input, while helping the team deliver iteratively and incrementally.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, or a related field
- 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst on federal or enterprise IT projects
- Demonstrated ability to gather and articulate technical and non-technical requirements
- Experience with Agile frameworks and tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for both technical and executive audiences
- U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with NOAA, NWS, or other federal scientific agencies
- Familiarity with software modernization initiatives and system lifecycle documentation (e.g., 508 compliance, FISMA)
- Understanding of Generative AI tools and associated business impacts
- Experience supporting cloud-based applications or SaaS transitions
- Proficiency in business analysis frameworks such as BABOK or IIBA certification
What BLN24 brings to the Game:
BLN24 benefits are game changing. We like our team to play hard and that means they need to be taken care of — physically, financially, and emotionally. We make sure to keep them in the game by giving them access to generous medical, dental, and vision plans.
- You can join one of the fastest growing companies headquartered in the Washington DC Metro Area. We give you the opportunity to work in different sectors, so you have the chance at variety while maintaining stability.
- Flexibility at BLN24 allows each individual the opportunity to balance quality work and their personal lives. Depending on projects, we allow remote working opportunities so you can always be in the game no matter where you call home.
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The Company
What We Do
BLN24 is a digital creative agency that is an 8(a) minority-owned small disadvantaged business (SDB). We add value by merging our commercial and government experience to create award-winning solutions for clients with the most important missions globally. BLN24 is a first-class communication, marketing, and technology agency for federal agencies and Fortune 500 companies. Founded by two former Booz Allen Hamilton employees, BLN24’s industry-lead marketing and communications strategies along with production and visual design has been on web and print advertisement campaigns as well as television networks across the nation.
