Senior Business Analyst – Energy
Location: Houston, Texas
Employment Type: Contract
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Role Summary
We are seeking a strong Business Analyst with experience analyzing business processes, gathering requirements, and preparing detailed process and solution documentation. The ideal candidate should have excellent stakeholder-management skills and preferably have experience in the energy, oil and gas, utilities, or commodity-trading domain.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with business and technology stakeholders to understand business needs, challenges, and objectives.
- Conduct workshops and interviews to gather and validate business and functional requirements.
- Analyze current-state processes and identify gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Develop current-state and future-state process maps, workflows, and operating procedures.
- Prepare Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirements Documents, user stories, use cases, and process-design documents.
- Translate business requirements into clear specifications for technical and delivery teams.
- Coordinate with product owners, developers, architects, testing teams, and business users throughout the project lifecycle.
- Support solution design, testing, user acceptance testing, implementation, and change-management activities.
- Maintain requirements traceability and ensure that delivered solutions meet business expectations.
- Provide regular project updates and help resolve requirement-related issues.
Required Skills
- 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in technology or business-transformation projects.
- Strong experience in requirements gathering, business-process analysis, and process mapping.
- Experience creating process flows using tools such as Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart, or similar platforms.
- Strong documentation skills, including BRDs, FRDs, user stories, use cases, functional specifications, and standard operating procedures.
- Experience working with both business and technical stakeholders.
- Good understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
- Experience supporting UAT, defect resolution, implementation, and process improvements.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work from the Houston office as required.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in the energy, oil and gas, utilities, power, commodities, or energy-trading domain.
- Understanding of front-, middle-, or back-office energy processes.
- Experience with ETRM, ERP, CRM, workflow, or enterprise transformation projects.
- Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint, and Excel.
About
In the perfect storm of technology forces shaping the business world, the question is not whether companies need to adapt to stay competitive but which tech partner to trust for long-term business improvement and transformation needs.
That’s why iShare was founded: to be that credible IT partner that cuts through the buzzword clutter to deliver real value by real people. And that starts with doing the basics right.
Who We Are
Based in New Jersey, iShare is a boutique IT consulting firm with strategic advisory, development, and staffing services designed for specific industry verticals. iShare was founded to fill a real market need – with so much noise about cloud, big data, and information security, companies today are adopting software product after product and losing sight of which they need and why, while what they really need is credible consulting that takes the time to understand their company’s unique scenario and requirement, and then architect a solution accordingly.
Recognizing this gap, senior industry executives put their credibility on the line to form iShare and ensure they create a fulfilling experience with lasting value for all stakeholders – customers, employees and partners. iShare leadership team has 20+ years average IT experience and is well-rounded in technology, operations, account and customer management. Our experience spans C-Suite positions with Fortune 100 firms as well as mid-tier firms. Our background includes stints at multibillion-dollar ITO / BPO firms as well as startups.