Senior Business Analyst

The primary duty of this Business Analyst position is to act as a liaison among business stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to information systems, business processes, and policies, as applicable. This position collects, clarifies, and translates business requirements into design documentation, from which applications and solutions are developed. Documentation will include use of standard application templates and tools, Azure Dev Ops, Visio, and Excel.

• 7+ years of experience as a senior business analyst
• Experience in a government, retirement system, or financial services environment.
• Knowledge of Azure Dev-ops, Ability to write user stories to support Agile development.
• Knowledge and experience in gathering financial systems requirements.
• Facilitate, capture, organize and document business requirements from all stakeholders, including business-side employees, product owners, and technical resources.
• Requirements analysis and the ability to decipher what is said to what is really wanted or needed.
• Communication and translating requirements between the business and technical teams to ensure shared understanding of requirements and design decisions.
• Produce understandable yet highly detailed requirements, process flows for the business and technical teams
• Create, organize, and maintain wiki content using markup languages such as Markdown, Wiki Markup, or re Structured
  
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• Develop intuitive wiki structures, including navigation hierarchy, templates, and cross-referenced content, to enhance user accessibility and knowledge continuity.
• Ensure documentation quality by applying standards, best practices, and version control across wiki content.
• Support continuous improvement by identifying documentation gaps and proposing enhancements.
• Lead backlog refinement sessions to ensure user stories meet Ready state with clear details and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with project team and business analysts to continuously improve story quality and prioritize work.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (Planning, Stand-ups, Reviews, Retrospectives) to support iterative delivery.
• Familiarity with Agile SDLC, process modeling, and system testing methodologies.
• Bachelor s degree in business administration, Information Systems, Public Administration, or a related field.