IT Business Analyst (Figma, Miro, Jira and Agile) - Locals to MN

Title: Business Analyst (Figma, Miro, Jira and Agile)

Location: Onsite 3M Center, Minnesota

Hours: Typical 8-5 with some flexibility

The Impact You ll Make in this Role

As a Business Analyst Specialist, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world.

Here, you will make an impact by:

• Understand and Translate Business Needs: Engage with stakeholders to gather, clarify, and document business requirements. Translate high-level objectives into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria for development teams.
• Facilitate Communication: Serve as a bridge between business and technical teams, ensuring developers understand the business context and priorities behind each requirement.
• Document Requirements: Create and maintain clear documentation such as process flows, current/future state diagrams, and functional specifications.
• Track Progress and Dependencies: Assist in managing timelines, deliverables, and dependencies across workstreams. Help identify risks and escalate blockers to project leadership.
• Coordinate Meetings and Updates: Schedule and facilitate stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives. Provide regular status updates to stakeholders and leadership.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Gather feedback post-implementation and identify opportunities to optimize processes or enhance the solution.
• Learn and Adapt: Stay current with tools, methodologies, and best practices in business analysis and project delivery.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Product Owners, Developers, QA, and other BAs to ensure alignment and shared understanding.

Skills

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Understand and Translate Business Needs: Engage with stakeholders to gather, clarify, and document business requirements. Translate high-level objectives into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria for development teams.
• Facilitate Communication: Serve as a bridge between business and technical teams, ensuring developers understand the business context and priorities behind each requirement.
• Document Requirements: Create and maintain clear documentation such as process flows, current/future state diagrams, and functional specifications.
• Track Progress and Dependencies: Assist in managing timelines, deliverables, and dependencies across workstreams. Help identify risks and escalate blockers to project leadership.
• Coordinate Meetings and Updates: Schedule and facilitate stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives. Provide regular status updates to stakeholders and leadership.
• Support Change Management: Help prepare training materials, user guides, and communications to support the adoption of new tools or processes.
• Own Functional Outcomes: Take ownership of specific solution components or features, ensuring they meet business needs and deliver measurable value.
• Validate Solutions: Participate in UAT, triage issues, and confirm that delivered functionality aligns with requirements and stakeholder expectations.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Gather feedback post-implementation and identify opportunities to optimize processes or enhance the solution.
• Learn and Adapt: Stay current with tools, methodologies, and best practices in business analysis and project delivery.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Product Owners, Developers, QA, and other BAs to ensure alignment and shared understanding.

Education

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree or higher with a technology focus (or equivalent experience) from an accredited institution
• Five (5) years of industry experience and knowledge in Figma, Miro, and Jira in a private, public, government, or military environment
• Three (3) years of experience leading agile teams