Senior Business Analyst

Overview

Role Snapshot
Our Senior Business Analyst plays a pivotal role in enabling IT delivery through facilitation of Agile practices, data-driven analysis, and Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) principles. They are responsible for translating complex business requirements into actionable features and user stories, facilitating Agile Release Trains (ARTs), and ensuring alignment across cross-functional teams on a variety of technical projects. This Sr. BA will leverage Agile and LPM metrics, provide data-driven insights to monitor performance, assess delivery risks, and support informed decision-making.

They are integral in advancing our Agile maturity and ensuring solutions delivered have measurable business value aligned to portfolio priorities. Operating within the SAFe framework, this Sr. BA supports Program Increment (PI) planning, facilitates project coordination, and ensures alignment between business requirements and technical implementation.

Salary Range
$100,000 - $125,000
The base pay offered for this position may vary within the posted range based on your job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Hybrid Work
This position will be hybrid, having the regional availability to come into the Office 3 days (Tue - Thurs) a week. Our office location: WPS Corporate Center Building - 1717 W. Broadway in Madison, WI.

• Enjoy turning conversations into clarity—gathering insights from stakeholders, workshops, and data to shape business and technical requirements that drive real outcomes.
• Thrive on translating ideas into action, crafting epics, features, and user stories with crisp acceptance criteria that guide development with purpose.
• Energized by Agile ceremonies and PI Planning, where I can bring business context to life, facilitate backlog refinement, and support project deliverables.
• Enjoy orchestrating feature prioritization and managing dependencies across Agile Release Trains, ensuring delivery aligns with what matters most to the business.
• Appreciate collaborating naturally with Product Owners, Architects, Developers, QA, and other stakeholders to ensure solutions are feasible, valuable, and aligned with strategic goals.
• Passionate about connecting features to business outcomes, refining the portfolio backlog, and supporting coordination across value streams to accelerate execution.
• Take pride in maintaining healthy backlogs—ensuring items are prioritized, refined, and ready for development so teams can deliver with clarity and focus.
• See process documentation as a strategic tool—mapping current and future states, spotting gaps, and identifying opportunities for improvement and automation.
• Comfortable tracking progress, managing scope changes, and communicating delivery impacts to stakeholders. Support change management and adoption with empathy and precision.
• Relish metrics like velocity, cycle time, and predictability to inform planning, surface risks, and drive continuous improvement. Build dashboards that turn data into decisions.
• Enjoy leading demos, walkthroughs, and post-implementation reviews to validate outcomes, gather feedback, and ensure users are satisfied and supported.
• Find fulfillment in mentoring other analysts—sharing SAFe principles, backlog best practices, and delivery techniques that elevate the team.
• Open to evolving responsibilities and excited to contribute wherever I can add value.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Systems or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5 or more years of experience as a Business Analyst or Product Analyst.
• 2 or more years supporting SAFe or scaled Agile delivery.
• Proven ability to elicitation, analyze, and document complex business requirements, translating them into actionable epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and effectively communicating business value, delivery risks, and insights to both technical teams and executive leadership that includes:
  • Strong understanding of SAFe principles, Program Increment (PI) planning,…