ECS is seeking a Requirements Writer / Business Analyst to work in our Washington, DC office.
In this pivotal role, you will collaborate with stakeholders across various business units and IT to identify, document, and manage functional and technical requirements for new systems, processes, and enhancements. The ideal candidate will translate complex business needs into clear, concise, and actionable specifications for development and project teams, ensuring solutions align with organizational objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Requirements Elicitation: Lead and facilitate meetings with stakeholders and partners to gather, analyze, and validate business and user requirements.
- Documentation: Create detailed requirements specifications, functional design documents, process models (using tools like Visio), use cases, and user stories.
- Process Analysis: Document and analyze current state business processes and workflows to identify inefficiencies, gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Liaison & Communication: Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, project managers, and technical development/QA teams, ensuring clear communication and shared understanding of requirements.
- Solution Design & Validation: Collaborate with technical teams to design and prototype potential solutions, ensuring alignment with business goals and obtaining stakeholder sign-off.
- Testing Support: Assist in defining testing strategies, developing test cases, and supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and defect validation.
- Change Management: Manage changes to requirements through a formal change management process, assessing the impact on the project scope, schedule, and budget.
- End-User Documentation: Support the development and maintenance of high-quality end-user manuals, training materials, and support documentation as needed.
Salary Range: $110,000 - $125,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred Qualifications- Education:A Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical/scientific field is required.
- Experience:Proven experience (typically 3-5+ years) working as a Business Analyst, Requirements Analyst, or Technical Writer in a project environment.
- Analytical Skills:Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking capabilities with meticulous attention to detail.
- Communication:Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into easily understandable language for a non-technical audience.
- Technical Proficiency:Proficiency with requirements management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps), process modeling software (e.g., Visio, VersionOne), and the Microsoft Office Suite.
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
