Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Richmond, VA/Kennesaw, GA/Chicago, IL

Full Time

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Primary Skill: Business Analyst

Secondary: JIRA, Jenkins, Github.

Experience: Minimum 7 years

Roles & Responsibilities

The Business Analyst will act as a bridge between business stakeholders, product owners, and technology teams to translate business requirements into well-defined and actionable user stories. The ideal candidate should possess strong techno-functional expertise, excellent requirement-gathering skills, and hands-on experience in Agile delivery practices.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand, analyze, and document business requirements.

Create and refine user stories, define acceptance criteria, and support story point estimation.

Break down large business requirements into manageable epics, features, and user stories.

Facilitate discussions between business, development, QA, architecture, and product teams to ensure alignment.

Analyze business processes and identify opportunities for process improvement and automation.

Support sprint planning, backlog grooming, UAT, and release activities.

Ensure requirements are clearly communicated and understood across all stakeholder groups.

Act as the single point of contact for requirement clarification and functional guidance.

Required Skills

Strong Business Analysis fundamentals including requirement elicitation, process mapping, and stakeholder management.

Proven experience in user story creation, story decomposition, acceptance criteria definition, and Agile methodologies.

Ability to facilitate workshops, requirement sessions, and stakeholder discussions.

Strong techno-functional understanding to effectively interact with development and architecture teams.

Experience with Agile/Scrum tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.

Excellent communication, documentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Demonstrated ability to bridge communication gaps between business and technology teams and drive consensus among stakeholders.

Preferred

Experience in Banking, Financial Services, Wealth Management, or Enterprise Digital Transformation programs.

Knowledge of UI- API integrations, Microservices, and modern application architectures is an added advantage.