Conservation Senior Business Analyst

Timmons Group is currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst to guide a multi-year modernization effort for a long-standing client whose mission centers on environmental conservation. In this consulting role you’ll partner closely with the client’s product owners, scientists, and field staff—as well as our own engineering team—to balance two parallel imperatives:

Business agility – enhancing existing systems so they evolve at the pace of new regulatory, operational, and conservation-science needs.

Technical modernization – retiring legacy code and architecture, introducing cloud-native and GIS best practices, and streamlining DevOps pipelines.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Build Shared Understanding – Translate conservation and regulatory needs into clear, testable user stories, ensuring the client’s product owners, subject-matter experts, and our developers share a single, actionable vision of each feature.
• Decision Enablement – Distill complex trade-offs (scope, timeline, technical debt vs. new capability) into concise, decision-ready options; present these to product owners and guide them toward well-informed, value-focused choices.
• Day-to-Day Judgment Calls – Act as the “first responder” for the development team—clarifying requirements, resolving ambiguities, and making pragmatic priority calls that keep sprints unblocked and delivery on track.
• Facilitate Collaborative Workshops – Lead discovery, journey mapping, and backlog refinement sessions that surface pain points, define value streams, and maintain- equilibrium between modernization tasks and new enhancements.
• Roadmap & Backlog Stewardship – Own and continuously refine the product backlog; run refinement and sprint planning- meetings; track dependencies, acceptance criteria, and Definition of Done across multiple release trains.
• Stakeholder Alignment & Communication – Provide frequent, clear updates to executives and field users; maintain living documentation and metrics that keep all parties in sync on progress, risks, and upcoming decisions.
• Consult & Facilitate – Lead collaborative sessions with cross-functional- client teams to surface pain points, define value streams, and agree on balanced sprint priorities.
• Change Management & Adoption – Develop communication plans, training materials, and adoption KPIs to maximize user uptake of new features and workflows.
• Assist other team members with their deliverables to ensure success of the project and deadline are met
• Provide mentorship to junior staff
• Assist with proposals, RFP responses and winning work through existing clients

Skills/Requirements of a successful candidate include but are not limited to:

• 8+ years of Business Analysis or Product Ownership experience on enterprise software projects, ideally in the public sector- environmental conservation and grant management domain.
• Bachelor's degree required in Business, Management or another related field
• Demonstrated success on long term, phased modernization programs (legacy replacement, cloud replat forming, or large GIS roll-outs).
• Strong consulting presence: workshop facilitation, executive level- communication, and prioritization rooted in a shared understanding of the client’s goals.
• Solid grasp of Agile/Scrum practices; experience translating business objectives into epics, features, and user stories.
• Proficient with Azure DevOps for backlog and release management
• Familiarity with geospatial technologies (Esri ArcGIS suite or open-source alternatives) is a plus.
• Ability to be creative, open minded and organized.
• Must possess excellent communication skills.
• Ability to provide direct, constructive feedback to both teams and individuals.
• Ability to delegate tasks and provide direction as needed.
• CSPO and PBA, CBAP or CCBA desirable

The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We are looking for high energy, creative, flexible, patient, self-starters who are willing to work at a dynamic pace. Candidates must share a commitment to our company’s Vision, Mission and Shared Values.

Timmons Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

Timmons Group is a multi-disciplined firm recognized nationally as a “Best Firm to Work For”. We help government and private clients alike to scale and grow through GIS services. With over 30 years providing expert GIS services, our award-winning team is ready to provide the flexible services to meet the needs of any organization. Our service expertise ranges from traditional GIS architecture and system configuration to custom application development to Enterprise Asset Management. We pride ourselves in being technology professionals that differentiate our services with unrivaled customer service. We are dedicated to solving challenges and helping our clients achieve their vision. For more information, visit www.timmonsgis.com.

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