Business Analyst

We are seeking a Business Analyst for a 12-month contract position based in Torrance, California. In this role, you will serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams, analyzing business needs, defining requirements, and delivering scalable data and integration solutions. You will focus on data transfers, system interoperability, and data privacy initiatives while collaborating with business partners, architects, developers, data engineers, and vendors to translate business objectives into actionable requirements.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business, functional, non-functional, data, and integration requirements.
• Create and maintain Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirements Documents (FRDs), user stories, process flows, and use cases.
• Ensure requirements are clear, testable, and traceable throughout the project lifecycle.
• Analyze enterprise data sources, data flows, and business processes to identify improvement opportunities.
• Define source-to-target mappings, business rules, data transformations, and data quality requirements.
• Collaborate with data engineers and architects to support analytics, reporting, and data platform initiatives.
• Gather and document system integration requirements.
• Define specifications, payload structures, field mappings, and integration workflows.
• Collaborate with development teams on event-driven architectures and system integrations.
• Support system-to-system testing, validation, troubleshooting, and production readiness activities.
• Partner with solution architects and technical teams to evaluate solution options and recommend approaches.
• Review technical designs to ensure alignment with business requirements.
• Participate in backlog refinement and sprint prioritization activities.
• Identify risks, dependencies, assumptions, and impacts across systems and business processes.
• Develop test scenarios, acceptance criteria, and system-to-system test plans and test cases.
• Coordinate business testing activities and validate delivered functionality.
• Support root cause analysis and resolution of production issues involving data or integrations.
• Monitor post-implementation success and identify continuous improvement opportunities.

Qualifications

• Required
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst.
• Experience with data platforms and supporting entire project lifecycle implementations.
• Experience supporting enterprise software development and system implementation projects.
• Experience working with data-centric applications, digital platforms, and cloud-based solutions.