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.