Technical Product Owner, HRS SF424

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes.

Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change.

You’ll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

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The SF424 Business Analyst is responsible for supporting the product team through detailed requirements analysis, mapping validation, requirements workbook preparation, status tracking, release validation, and cross-functional communication for the HRS SF424 product area. This role provides the structure and execution support needed to move SF-424 forms from analysis and generated outputs into validated work products that engineering teams can implement and test.

The role requires a strong analytical orientation and the ability to learn a complex intersection of federal grants administration, Grants.gov system-to-system submission requirements, HRS Grants workflows, form engines, field mappings, XML schemas, validation rules, attachment handling, and agency-specific form behavior. The ideal candidate is comfortable working close to technical detail without needing to be a software engineer.

This Business Analyst will work in close partnership with the HRS SF424 Product Owner and HRS Product Management. The role supports requirements of clarity, validation throughput, engineering readiness, and product continuity while Product Management and the Product Owner retain final roadmap, prioritization, and product decision authority.

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SF424 Forms, Grants.gov & Research Administration Domain Support

Requirements, Mapping, Validation & Engineering Readiness
Expectation: Turn SF424 source materials, mappings, and technical inputs into clear, validated requirements that engineering and QA can act on.
•    Create and validate SF424 requirements workbooks from Grants.gov instructions, schemas, HRS Grants logic, field-level rules, and product priorities.
•    Analyze key form details, including field definitions, versions, display and required rules, validation rules, list values, help text, repeatable sections, attachments, and budget logic.
•    Review generated workbooks, scorecards, mappings, and inferencing outputs to identify gaps, incorrect assumptions, rule issues, and missing requirements.
•    Translate ambiguous input into clear requirements, assumptions, open questions, decisions, and follow-up actions.
•    Validate mappings between Grants.gov fields, XML/XSD schemas, HRS Grants data, configuration, source-system behavior, and expected form output.
•    Partner with engineering, architecture, and QA to interpret requirements in the context of forms, schemas, integrations, data models, rules, attachments, and submission workflows.
•    Prepare clean engineering handoff materials with validated requirements, assumptions, risks, test considerations, implementation notes, and unresolved questions.
•    Support QA and post-build validation for form generation, validation, attachments, submission scenarios, regression coverage, UAT, defect triage, and acceptance.
•    Balance business needs, technical constraints, data availability, Grants.gov compliance, implementation complexity, and release risk when recommending next steps.

Prototyping & Future-State SF424 Experience
Expectation: Use prototyping, AI-assisted discovery, and technical analysis to help redefine how SF424 supports a lower-friction path from funding discovery through integration, submission, and award.
•    Explore future-state SF424 workflows that reduce friction across funding opportunity search, proposal …