Business/systems analyst - McLean, VA - Onsite - W2 /own corporation

The ideal candidate combines strong business/systems analysis capabilities with multifamily lending knowledge and sufficient technical depth to investigate application implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish requirement-level traceability between Multifamily Credit Policy and myOptigo functionality.
• Analyze implementation and enforcement through:
• Business rules and decision logic
• UI validations and workflow controls
• Data-entry requirements and field-level restrictions
• Automated underwriting and eligibility determinations
• Funding and delivery controls
• Credit Policy Exception (CPE) processing
• Document requirements and system-generated conditions
• Workflow status transitions
• Approval requirements
• Manual processes and controls
• Review Jira, Confluence, BitBucket, system documentation, business requirements, application artifacts, and other available evidence.
• Work with application SMEs, developers, architects, product owners, underwriting SMEs, and business stakeholders to understand system behavior.
• Determine whether policy requirements are fully implemented, partially implemented, minimally implemented, manually controlled, or not implemented.
• Document the evidence supporting each traceability determination.
• Identify gaps and inconsistencies between intended policy requirements and system implementation.
• Identify areas where requirements currently rely upon manual rather than system-enforced controls.
• Support assessment of opportunities for improved traceability, governance, and future automation.
• Participate in peer review and QA to ensure complete, consistent, and accurate traceability.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of business analyst and/or systems analyst experience.
• 1+ year of multifamily experience.
• Understanding of the multifamily loan market, including underwriting processes and underwriting standards.
• Strong experience with business and systems requirements analysis.
• Experience analyzing application business rules, decision logic, workflows, validations, integrations, and/or system controls.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket.
• Technical knowledge of Java and the ability to understand Java-based application artifacts sufficiently for systems analysis.
• Technical knowledge of AMQ/JMS and message-driven architecture.
• Ability to translate between business/credit requirements and technical implementation.
• Strong documentation, analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with microservice-based architecture.
• Experience with multifamily underwriting, origination, credit, or servicing platforms.
• Experience tracing business, policy, regulatory, or control requirements to technology implementation.
• Familiarity with source-code repositories and application architecture.
• Experience assessing automated versus manual controls.
• Multifamily underwriting knowledge in Conventional, TAH, Student Housing, Seniors Housing, and/or Manufactured Housing.
• Experience in regulated financial-services environments.