Sr. Business Analyst w/Secret Clearance (Contingent)

A3 Consulting LLC is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to turn broad organizational priorities into performance measures that are precise enough to automate and useful enough to act on. If you excel at leading stakeholder discussions, establishing consistent KPI definitions, and ensuring that measures reflect both delivery speed and quality, this role is for you! **In this job you will:** * Facilitate discovery sessions to connect strategic priorities and operational questions with candidate KPIs, accountable owners, decision uses, and an ordered measurement backlog. * Document formulas, numerators and denominators, populations, exclusions, units, reporting frequencies, thresholds, and interpretation rules for each proposed measure. * Apply the Pairing Principle by matching speed or volume measures with quality, risk, rework, adoption, or compliance measures that expose unintended tradeoffs. * Build and maintain the enterprise metric catalog and master measures matrix, and coordinate field\-level definitions with the centralized data dictionary. * Screen candidate measures for specificity, measurability, achievability, relevance, and time\-bounding, plus redundancy and continuing usefulness, before they reach governance review. * Prepare evidence\-backed governance packages and change\-impact assessments, including affected artifacts, dashboards, and tests. * Work with data analysts, architects, and dashboard developers to confirm the availability, completeness, and refresh cadence of source fields needed to calculate each measure, and document gaps before approval and automation. **Required Qualifications:** * Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Finance, Data/Analytics, Public Administration, or a related field preferred. * 7\+ years of experience developing KPIs, performance frameworks, business requirements, or enterprise scorecards. * Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous objectives into precise calculations and testable acceptance criteria. * Demonstrated ability to facilitate agreement across stakeholders with differing requirements or interpretations, and to maintain traceable definitions under controlled change. * Working command of data populations, aggregation rules, source limitations, and analytical validation. * Strong written communication, including the ability to explain what a measure means, what it excludes, and what tradeoff it exposes, to a non\-technical executive. * Experience with federal performance reporting, data governance, process mapping, or Lean improvement. * Familiarity with the design and acceptance of Power BI or Tableau dashboards. * Experience building a data dictionary or measures repository from inception. * Experience in personnel security, industrial security, or a related federal mission domain. **Clearance Level**: * Active Secret Clearance (or higher) required. **Location**: * Remote (DC Metropolitan Area) **Salary Range**: * The salary range of this position is $115,000 \- $130,000 commensurate with experience and achievement **Benefit Information:** A3 Consulting offers a robust benefits package to include but not limited to medical, dental, and vision benefits, flexible spending and health savings accounts, group life and AD\&D, short\-term and long\-term disability, paid time off, 401k match, paid parental leave, professional development. **About A3 Consulting:** A3 Consulting, LLC is a leading management and technology firm that specializes in providing innovative solutions to solve the pressing challenges of our Federal government customers. With a proven track record of delivering mission\-critical solutions and exceptional performance, we committed to ensuring that our technology offerings remain competitive in the rapidly evolving federal marketplace. *A3 Consulting, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive, people\-first culture. We are committed to non\-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law.*