Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst (SDLC, Requirements & Process Improvement):

Total Required Experience in Years: 12%2B Years

Mode of Work:Hybrid / Up to 100% Remote Must Be Located in USA; Texas Candidates Preferred for Occasional Onsite Work

The Senior Business Analyst will support multiple software projects involving major application enhancements and/or system rewrite initiatives. The position will serve as the primary liaison between business/program stakeholders and software development teams throughout the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

The Business Analyst will lead requirements elicitation, business-process analysis, requirements documentation, user-story and use-case development, wireframing, change control, and requirements validation. The role will also promote business-analysis best practices and mentor peers and colleagues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the liaison between business stakeholders, customers, and software development teams.

• Participate throughout the complete SDLC.

• Elicit and document detailed business, functional, and system requirements.

• Conduct requirements-gathering activities using:

  • JAD Sessions

  • Stakeholder Interviews

  • Document Analysis

  • Surveys

  • Use Cases

  • Workflow Analysis

  • Competitive Product Analysis

• Analyze user needs, business processes, pain points, and existing system capabilities.

• Identify opportunities to automate or improve existing systems.

• Perform business process re-engineering and workflow improvement.

• Translate business needs into clear and actionable system requirements.

• Develop user stories and use cases following BA best practices.

• Create software requirements specification documents.

• Design wireframes and mockups following UX best practices.

• Establish and maintain requirements baselines.

• Verify that implemented solutions fulfill approved requirements.

• Manage requirements for post-implementation enhancements.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Manage requirements specifications throughout the project lifecycle.

• Track requirements status, changes, dependencies, and completion.

• Support formal change-control processes.

• Use Atlassian Jira for issue and requirements tracking.

• Use Modern Requirements or similar requirements-management tools.

• Facilitate meetings and requirements workshops with business and technical stakeholders.

• Communicate requirements clearly to software development teams.

• Promote standardized business-analysis methodologies and best practices.

• Mentor peers and colleagues on BA practices.

• Support application modernization and rewrite initiatives.

• Maintain organized and accurate requirements documentation.

Required Skills:

• Minimum 8%2B years eliciting requirements through customer interviews and creating well-written system requirements.

• Minimum 8%2B years of experience working with Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC).

• Minimum 8%2B years of business process re-engineering and software process-flow improvement experience.

• Minimum 8%2B years developing user stories and use cases following business-analysis best practices.

• Minimum 8%2B years designing mockups and/or wireframes following UX best practices.

• Minimum 5%2B years demonstrating strong communication and facilitation skills.

• Minimum 5%2B years demonstrating strong writing and organizational skills.

• Strong experience translating complex business requirements into functional and system requirements.

• Experience facilitating JAD and requirements-gathering sessions.

• Strong stakeholder-management and requirements-validation skills.

• Experience supporting major application enhancements and/or application rewrite projects.

• Strong understanding of requirements management and change-control processes.

Preferred Skills:

• Minimum 4%2B years of experience with:

  • State or Federal Education Agencies

  • Local Education Agencies

  • Education Technology Vendors

• Minimum 2%2B years of hands-on Atlassian Jira experience.

• Minimum 2%2B years using requirements-management software such as Modern Requirements.

• Education-sector application development experience.

• Application modernization experience.

• Experience mentoring Business Analysts and promoting BA best practices.

Qualifications:

• Strong analytical and business process analysis capabilities.

• Excellent requirements elicitation and documentation skills.

• Strong meeting facilitation and stakeholder communication abilities.

• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong organizational and documentation skills.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities.

• Ability to work independently while collaborating across distributed teams.

• Must be available during the required workday, including 9:00 AM3:30 PM Central Time.

• Must be able to support occasional evening, weekend, or holiday work when required.

Education:

• Education requirements were not specified in the provided requirement.

Certifications:

• IIBA Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) Preferred

• PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA) Preferred

• IIBA Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA) Preferred

• Atlassian Jira Certification Preferred