W2 Opportunity: Sr. Business Analyst

Role: Business Analyst
Location: Sunnyvale, CA (Local Candidates)

Day 1 Onsite

Job Summary :

For this role, we are looking for a dynamic, highly motivated and detail-oriented Business Analyst to serve as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams. This role is responsible for gathering, analyzing, and translating business needs into clear technical requirements that guide understanding of the problem statement, solution design, development, and implementation. The ideal candidate has strong communication skills, a structured problem-solving mindset, and the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Engage with business stakeholders to understand their goals, processes, and challenges.
• Articulating technical concepts in business-friendly language to secure buy-in and drive change.
• Document and translate business requirements into detailed functional and technical specifications.
• Collaborate with product and program managers, developers, QA teams, and other stakeholders to ensure requirements are well understood and feasible.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and requirement-gathering sessions.
• Conduct detailed data analysis or data gathering to assess a business challenge.
• Assess current state data inputs and outputs, data flow, system capabilities, and outline it in effective ways to support process analysis and requirement gathering
• Work closely with technical teams to ensure technical solutions meet business needs
• Partner with technical teams to rightsize and identify solutions to build a strong data foundation, explore automation and AI/ML capabilities to address business challenges
• Maintain and manage requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support solution design by identifying gaps, dependencies, and potential risks.
• Partner with QA to define acceptance criteria, test cases, and validate solutions meet business needs.
• Assist in change management, user training, and documentation as needed.
• Continuously identify opportunities for process improvement and efficiency gains

Qualifications:

• 7 - 10 years of strong hands-on experience in business analytics, program or product management, management consulting role.
• Strong experience in SQL.
• Experience applying analytical techniques to provide solutions to real business problems.
• Experience eliciting and building comprehensive business requirements and project plans.
• Documenting features and functions of technical systems.
• Validating Functional Specifications against Business Requirements.
• Strong experience with Agile methodologies and tools.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to connect and develop strong partnerships.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Behavioral Skills:

• Excellent Communication skills and collaboration skills.
• Ability to propose and implement improvements in the system.
• Ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders.