Overview
Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Full Time
Skills
business analysis
software delivery or consulting environment
Jira
Azure DevOps (ADO)
Confluence
or similar
backlog management
Job Details
Note: It's W2 position and candidate must be work on our W2
About the Role:
We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst (BA) to lead the alignment between business needs and technical delivery in a fast-paced, software-focused environment. You will operate at the forefront of the SDLC, helping Product Owners define and refine multi-year roadmaps, breaking them into actionable Agile deliverables. This role is pivotal in ensuring that software products are strategically aligned, tactically sound, and practically delivered with minimal scope creep.
Key Responsibilities
- Requirements & Roadmap Ownership
- Partner closely with Product Owners to extract business needs and translate them into epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
- Develop, manage, and refine product roadmaps that align with strategic and tactical goals.
- Maintain backlog health to support sprint readiness and long-term delivery targets.
- Vet and manage scope changes, ensuring ongoing alignment with roadmap priorities.
SDLC & Agile Delivery
- Guide the team through all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle, from inception through delivery and demonstration.
- Lead or participate in Agile ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
- Ensure stories meet the Definition of Ready/Done before entering a sprint.
- Collaborate with QA and developers to ensure requirements are testable and validated in each release cycle.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Required 12+ years of business analysis experience in a software delivery or consulting environment.
- Deep understanding of Agile methodologies, backlog management, and SDLC best practices.
- Expertise with tools like Jira, Azure DevOps (ADO), Confluence, or similar.
- Strong facilitation and elicitation skills; capable of driving clarity across ambiguous or evolving business needs.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for business and technical audiences.
- Ability to manage priorities across multiple workstreams and product domains.
- Experience creating and delivering product demonstrations and supporting go-live cycles.
- Familiarity with cloud-based platforms, enterprise-scale applications, or AI-enhanced tooling.
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