Senior Business Analyst

Location: Torrance, CA — Hybrid, 4 days onsite and 1 day remote per week

Contract Duration: 7 months, with potential for extension

Job Overview

We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support enterprise business and technology initiatives in a hybrid onsite role based in Torrance, CA. This consultant will partner closely with business stakeholders, product owners, project managers, architects, developers, and QA teams to define requirements, improve processes, support delivery, and ensure technology solutions align with business goals.

The ideal candidate has strong experience gathering and documenting requirements, developing user stories and process flows, facilitating stakeholder discussions, supporting UAT, and working across Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments. Experience with digital transformation, application modernization, or enterprise systems projects is highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

·         Lead stakeholder interviews, workshops, discovery sessions, and requirements reviews.

·         Gather, analyze, document, and manage business, functional, and non-functional requirements.

·         Create user stories, use cases, process flows, workflow diagrams, business rules, and functional specifications.

·         Maintain requirements traceability and support prioritization and change management.

·         Analyze current-state processes and recommend future-state improvements that increase efficiency, reduce risk, and improve user experience.

·         Partner with cross-functional teams throughout planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and business readiness activities.

·         Support Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project delivery, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, release planning, and solution reviews.

·         Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including validation of delivered functionality against approved requirements.

·         Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, decisions, and recommendations to business and technology stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

·         8+ years of Business Analysis experience supporting enterprise business and technology initiatives.

·         Strong knowledge of SDLC concepts and experience working with business and technical teams.

·         Hands-on experience with requirements elicitation, documentation, traceability, and prioritization.

·         Experience developing user stories, use cases, process flows, workflow diagrams, and functional specifications.

·         Experience supporting system implementations, application modernization, digital transformation, or process improvement initiatives.

·         Strong analytical, facilitation, communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.

·         Experience coordinating or supporting UAT, defect triage, business readiness, training, and deployment activities.

Tools & Technologies

·         Jira

·         Azure DevOps

·         Confluence

·         Microsoft 365

·         Visio

·         Business process modeling tools

·         Enterprise applications, systems integration concepts, and APIs

Preferred Qualifications

·         Experience in automotive, automotive finance, or highly regulated enterprise environments.

·         Experience supporting digital transformation, cloud, enterprise architecture, or legacy system replacement initiatives.

·         Familiarity with compliance, audit, governance, and operational risk considerations.

·         Experience working in hybrid Agile/Waterfall environments.