Senior Business Analyst

Sr. Business Analyst with hands‑on execution role responsible for leading the Business Analyst function while personally performing advanced business analysis work. This includes requirements discovery, documentation, backlog grooming, stakeholder engagement, and alignment across Product, Engineering, UX, QA, Architecture, and Release teams. It involves consulting resources, establishing best practices, and ensuring the delivery pipeline is never slowed due to unclear or incomplete requirements. The ideal candidate is proactive, technically fluent, exceptionally organized, and able to communicate clearly with business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops, and requirements‑gathering sessions.
• Document business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, functional specifications, process flows, use cases, and decision logs.
• Translate high‑level initiatives into clear, technically feasible user stories.
• Create structured artifacts that reduce ambiguity and accelerate development and QA.
• Support traceability across requirements, design, testing, and deployment.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and well‑prioritized backlog for multiple Scrum teams.
• Independently determine which stories need refinement and approval based on project priorities.
• Directly schedule and lead requirement meetings, refinement sessions, and alignment discussions with stakeholders and cross‑functional teams.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with business partners across Marketing, Revenue Management, Operations, CX, and other departments.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, UX, QA, Analytics, and Release Management to ensure shared understanding of scope and priorities.
• Facilitate communication across teams to avoid misalignment, delays, or rework.
• Ensure stakeholders understand testing responsibilities and timelines.
• Support release planning and ensure requirements are aligned with release cycles.
• Provide documentation in a controlled, governed, and audit‑ready manner.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of hands‑on Business Analyst experience in a digital or technology‑focused environment.
• 2–5+ years managing or leading Business Analysts or Agile delivery teams.
• Expertise with Agile/Scrum, refinement practices, and SDLC methodologies.

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting