Job Title: Technical Business Analyst
Location: Remote in the DC / MD / VA area
Type: Contract / 1099
Compensation: $50/hr-$60/hr, subject to experience
We are seeking a Technical Business Analyst to support a long-term client project. This is a 1099/contractor role for someone who is highly client-oriented, technically fluent, and skilled at deeply learning a client’s business domain, systems, and operating environment.
The ideal candidate is not just a requirements gatherer. They are someone who can build trusted relationships, understand complex stakeholder needs, translate business objectives into actionable technical requirements, and help bridge the gap between client leadership, program teams, and a small internal engineering team.
This role is fully remote, but candidates should be located in or near the DMV area, as occasional onsite meetings may be required approximately once or twice per quarter.
Responsibilities
Partner directly with client stakeholders, program leaders, and internal technical teams to understand business needs, workflows, priorities, and constraints.
Develop a strong working knowledge of the client’s domain, systems, stakeholder landscape, and long-term application goals.
Lead discovery conversations with business and technical stakeholders to elicit, clarify, and document requirements.
Translate complex business needs into clear, actionable requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, and supporting documentation.
Serve as a bridge between senior developers and client-side business stakeholders, ensuring shared understanding across both groups.
Support systems integration efforts across internal applications, external partner platforms, and related enterprise systems.
Ask thoughtful, probing questions to uncover business context, edge cases, dependencies, and risks.
Build and maintain strong long-term client relationships based on trust, curiosity, responsiveness, and accountability.
Help prioritize requirements and clarify tradeoffs in collaboration with client leadership and the delivery team.
Participate in remote meetings and occasional onsite client sessions.
Contribute to the continued improvement of application documentation, stakeholder communication, and delivery processes.
Qualifications
Meaningful experience as a Business Analyst, Technical Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Systems Analyst, or similar role.
Demonstrated experience working directly with external clients or business stakeholders in a consultative capacity.
Proven ability to learn complex business domains and become deeply familiar with client requirements, terminology, workflows, and priorities.
Strong requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Comfortable engaging with senior leadership and extracting meaningful information from high-level or ambiguous conversations.
Ability to work effectively with senior software developers and translate between business and technical perspectives.
Experience supporting custom application development, modernization, or systems integration projects.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong curiosity, patience, and willingness to invest time in understanding the client’s environment.
Ability to work independently in a remote environment while remaining highly collaborative and responsive.
Located in or near the DMV area and available for occasional onsite meetings.
Experience supporting applications that integrate with third-party providers, partner systems, APIs, or enterprise platforms.
Background working with long-term client accounts or embedded delivery teams.
Familiarity with Agile delivery practices, user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog refinement, and sprint planning.
Experience documenting workflows, business rules, data flows, integration requirements, and operational processes.
Prior experience on application modernization projects or migrations from legacy to modern technology stacks.
Required:
Strongly Preferred:
About Us
Cloudforce is a spirited team defined by the shared values of excellence, growth, teamwork, passion, giving back, and glee. As technophiles, we thrive on the latest developments in our chosen field of expertise: AI + cloud computing. As humans, we are driven by the opportunities to make life better through the thoughtful application of technology. At Cloudforce, these two pursuits combine to form an effective, human-centered approach for making technology solutions accessible for businesses, app developers, and entrepreneurs, alike.
We offer our employees unique opportunities to learn, grow, and be part of a team that believes in more than just typical nine-to-five activities. We’ve built a culture around openness, inclusiveness, giving back to the community, team building, and growth. Whether it be through monthly team outings, annual trips, or our frequent charitable activities, we’re serious about making each individual feel like they’re part of our team.
Why Cloudforce?
We think the best work happens when people care and feel genuinely taken care of — so we've built a company that reflects that.
The Essentials
Medical, dental, life, and short-term disability insurance covered at 100% of the premium for employees and 50% for dependents
Paid parental leave, including adoption and foster care placement
PTO that grows with you — starting at 15 days, scaling to 20, then 25, plus incentive opportunities to earn even more
9 company holidays + 2 floating holidays to use however you need them
401K savings plan and education reimbursement to invest in your future
The Perks
Friday lunch on us — every week, no exceptions
Access to our proprietary AI platform — available as both a professional tool and for your own productivity
Personalized professional growth plan – an ongoing opportunity to map your own path, stay challenged, and grow with guidance and support from your manager
24/7 access to a modern gym with Tonal and Peloton
Free monthly garage parking with direct private access to the office
Sun-filled National Harbor offices with Potomac views, steps from shops and restaurants
Complimentary snacks, cutting-edge tech, and a workspace you'll actually want to show up to
The Culture
A real career path — not just a job
A team that's tight-knit, community-minded, and genuinely fun to work with
Your ideas heard, valued, and acted on
An award-winning culture, recognized by Inc. 2026 Best Workplaces for the fifth consecutive year, The Washington Post 2025 Top Workplaces, Great Place to Work Certified, and Fortune 2025 Best Small Workplaces
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This description highlights the core duties of the position; however, responsibilities may evolve as needs change and opportunities arise.
Cloudforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age, or genetic information.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Please note - applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
Skills Required
- Meaningful experience as a Business Analyst, Technical Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Systems Analyst, or similar
- Direct experience working with external clients or business stakeholders in a consultative capacity
- Ability to learn complex business domains and understand client requirements, terminology, workflows, and priorities
- Strong requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to engage with senior leadership and extract information from high-level or ambiguous conversations
- Ability to work effectively with senior software developers and translate between business and technical perspectives
- Experience supporting custom application development, modernization, or systems integration projects
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong curiosity, patience, and willingness to understand the client's environment
- Ability to work independently in a remote environment while remaining collaborative and responsive
- Located in or near the DMV area and available for occasional onsite meetings
- Experience with applications integrating third-party providers, partner systems, APIs, or enterprise platforms
- Background working with long-term client accounts or embedded delivery teams
- Familiarity with Agile delivery practices, user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog refinement, and sprint planning
- Experience documenting workflows, business rules, data flows, integration requirements, and operational processes
- Prior experience with application modernization projects or migrations from legacy to modern technology stacks
- Authorization to work for any employer in the United States
What We Do
The leading force in the Microsoft cloud, Cloudforce creates, migrates, and maintains custom cloud solutions for businesses and government. In every engagement, Cloudforce serves as a trusted partner to help clients define and refine their technology needs. Cloudforce then crafts and deploys accessible, scalable, and secure solutions to help clients manage and grow their business in efficient and innovative new ways. Cloudforce staff live and breathe the Microsoft cloud, and provide every customer with the best technology strategy for their organization’s goals and challenges. Cloudforce prizes every business relationship as a new opportunity to connect, collaborate, and help enrich lives—across businesses, across communities, and beyond
