Business Analyst / Project Coordinator

About the role

Amentum, NASA's largest engineering solutions provider, is looking for a Business Analyst / Project Coordinator to work alongside NASA at its centers across the United States. The role bridges business stakeholders and the technical team, turning requirements into specifications and supporting project coordination.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as the main link between business stakeholders and the technical team, owning requirements from the first conversation through user acceptance.
• Elicit requirements through stakeholder interviews, workshops, process observation and analysis of existing documents and data.
• Write Business Requirements Documents and translate them into functional specifications and user stories.
• Map current and future-state processes, identify gaps and opportunities for automation or AI, and maintain traceability through development and testing.
• Plan and support user acceptance testing, including test scenarios, testers and defect tracking.
• Use AI tools to speed up analysis, documentation and process discovery, and validate their output.
• Support project execution with the IT Section Manager: track tasks, milestones, risks and dependencies, run status meetings, prepare status updates and assess change requests.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in the field or a related area.
• Experience as a Business Analyst on software development projects.
• Ability to uncover unstated needs and resolve conflicting requirements, and to present to management.
• US citizenship or permanent residency may be required, and a U.S. government background investigation.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT or Claude.
• Process modeling (BPMN, swimlane diagrams, flowcharts) in Visio or similar.
• Agile/Scrum and Waterfall, Smartsheet, and strong written and verbal communication.
• Preferred: CBAP, CCBA or PMI-PBA; PMP, CAPM or CSM; aerospace, government contracting or NASA/DoD experience.NET/web SDLC, Azure DevOps, Jira, MS Project, basic SQL, Power BI.

What we offer

• Salary starting at $83,700, depending on experience and qualifications.
• Health, dental and vision insurance, paid time off and holidays, retirement benefits with 401(k) matching, parental leave, educational reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, pet insurance and disability and life insurance.
• 9/80 work schedule (every other Friday off) when applicable, onsite cafeteria, and career growth opportunities.