Job Description
Senior Business Analyst
Groundswell is seeking a highly skilled Senior Business Analyst with deep expertise in UiPath implementation, automation strategy, and RPA solution delivery. This role will serve as a critical bridge between business stakeholders and technical development teams, ensuring that automation opportunities are well-defined, scalable, and aligned with organizational goals. The ideal candidate has a proven track record leading end-to-end automation initiatives using UiPath and excels at requirements gathering, process mapping, solution design, and stakeholder management.
Responsibilities:
- Elicit requirements based on document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis
- Serve as a liaison between product owners, technology teams, and support teams to keep all parties informed and engaged in the requirements gathering and analysis process
- Collaborate with developers, product owners, and subject matter experts (SMEs) to refine requirements
- Develop and maintain Process Design Documents (PDDs) that capture current-state workflows, business rules, decision points, and exception handling for UiPath development
- Partner with UiPath developers to validate Solution Design Documents (SDDs) against PDDs, ensuring traceability and alignment from requirements through delivery
- Drive adoption of agentic automation approaches by identifying where UiPath bots, combined with LLMs, can operate autonomously with governance, escalation, and remediation
- Design and document LLM-enabled user journeys (e.g., natural language intake, contextual grounding, AI copilots) that extend UiPath capabilities and improve user interaction
- Provide detailed, comprehensive, testable, and traceable process components in a number of formats including, but not limited to Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Data Requirements, System Software Specifications, Use Cases, etc.
- Perform detailed requirements analysis, document processes, and perform some quality assurance/user acceptance testing
- Effectively partner with the product owners, technical teams, and other relevant stakeholders to help solve problems, especially with requirements conflict or are unclear
- Help the project manager ensure the product backlog is updated and supports continuous flow
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
- A minimum of 5 years' experience as a Business Analyst, with at least 2 years supporting UiPath implementation or RPA projects
- Experience with Software Development Lifecycle methodologies, deliverables, and controls
- Strong understanding of UiPath components: Studio, Orchestrator, Queues, attended/unattended bots
- Demonstrated experience leading requirements gathering sessions, analyzing business flows, and documenting user needs
- Well-rounded technology consulting experience desired, to include the ability to define requirements, lead client meetings, facilitate UAT, and conduct training
- Experience with Jira
- Able to explain difficult concepts to non-technical users
- Strong written and verbal communication skills that translate well into requirements baselines that both technical experts and business owners can understand
- Experience writing Process Design Documents (PDDs) and working with developers to validate Solution Design Documents (SDDs)
- Excellent customer service, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills
- Must be a U.S. Citizen per contract requirements
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Secret security clearance as required by contract
- Must be local to the Washington, DC metro area and willing to come onsite as needed
Preferred Experience:
- UiPath Business Analyst Certification or UiPath Automation Business Analyst training
- Experience with process mining tools (e.g., UiPath Process Mining, Task Mining)
- Familiarity with API integrations, workflow tools, or digital transformation initiatives
- Experience in enterprise-level RPA programs with governance, scaling, and COE structures
- General understanding of financial management aspects (i.e., financial operations, internal control, risk management, etc.), particularly in a federal environment
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