Sr. Business Analyst with SQL Experience

Job Title: Sr. Business Analyst with SQL Experience

Location: New York City, NY 4 Days onsite role

Fulltime role with Mphasis

JD Summary: The Senior Business Analyst will serve as a proactive partner to the business, quickly ramping up to capture business needs, translate them into actionable technical requirements, and ensure solutions drive measurable improvements in client servicing and operational efficiency. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments, builds trust quickly with stakeholders, and excels at synthesizing business and technical viewpoints.

Key Responsibilities:

Requirements Gathering & Documentation

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs, goals, and challenges.
• Drive structured elicitation (interviews, shadowing, workshops) and translate findings into detailed user stories, process flows, and acceptance criteria.
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications, user stories, and use cases.

Coordination and Collaboration

• Collaborate with relevant teams and individuals to manage dependencies and unblock delivery.
• Proactively manage cross-functional alignment to prevent scope gaps or overlaps.

Technical Collaboration

• Work closely with product management, developers, engineers, quality assurance team and solution architects to ensure accurate implementation of requirements.
• Assist in designing and validating technical solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Ensure delivery teams have full contextual understanding of requirements.
• Support system integration, data mapping, and workflow optimization initiatives.

Project Delivery Support

• Participate in Agile ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives) or traditional project phases, depending on the delivery model.
• Track progress, manage requirement changes, and help resolve project roadblocks.
• Serve as a point of contact for clarifications throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC)

Experience:

• 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in a technology or software development environment.
• Experience in the finance industry (financial services asset management, or fintech) is required.
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
• Familiarity with SQL and/or data analysis tools.
• Proven success in requirement gathering, stakeholder management, and supporting high-impact delivery initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to hit the ground running and quickly integrate into cross functional teams.
• Excellent written, and verbal communication with proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate with project stakeholders across all levels of seniority.
• Proficiency in tools and products such as Jira and Confluence.