Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Hybrid 4 onsite / 1 work from home in Englewood, CO

Our client seeks a Business Analyst who will serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams to translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements. The role partners with Product Owners, Project/Program Managers, Engineering, QA, and business leaders to understand current-state processes, define future-state requirements, identify gaps, and support successful delivery of technology initiatives. The ideal candidate is analytical, comfortable working with both technical and business stakeholders, and able to bring structure and clarity to complex or ambiguous problems. This person will support a new backup product. Cellular or Wi-Fi experience is beneficial but not required.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a W2 basis. For our W2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $50.00 to $55.00/hr. W2

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand business objectives, processes, challenges, and desired outcomes.
• Lead requirements-gathering sessions, stakeholder interviews, workshops, and discovery meetings.
• Translate business needs into detailed business and functional requirements.
• Develop user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, use cases, and other requirements documentation.
• Analyze current-state processes and identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, or technology enablement.
• Work closely with Product Owners and technical teams to refine requirements and maintain the product or project backlog.
• Serve as the bridge between business stakeholders and Engineering, Architecture, Data, and QA teams.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives.
• Identify dependencies, risks, assumptions, and gaps that could impact delivery.
• Support QA and UAT activities by validating test scenarios against business requirements.
• Assist business stakeholders with user acceptance testing and issue resolution.
• Maintain requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle.
• Analyze data and reporting to validate business problems, measure outcomes, and support decision-making.
• Provide clear status updates and communicate requirements, risks, and decisions to stakeholders and leadership.
• Support implementation, change management, training, and post-production validation as needed.

Experience Requirements:

• 4+ years as a Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Product Analyst, or similar role within a technology environment.
• Experience gathering and documenting business and functional requirements.
• Strong experience developing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience working directly with software engineering and technical teams.
• Strong understanding of Agile or Scrum software development methodologies.
• Experience mapping business processes and documenting current-state and future-state workflows.
• Ability to analyze complex business problems and translate them into actionable technology requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate meetings with both business and technical stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and dependencies.
• Preferred: experience in large enterprise technology environments, Jira, Confluence, process-mapping tools, APIs, system integrations, data flows, or application development projects.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range. W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

About Eliassen Group: Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve. Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.