Business Analyst
- Neural Strategic Solutions Inc.
2 Days Ago
NA
W2
Phoenix-AZ
6-10 Years
Required Skills: software solutions, Microsoft Azure DevOps
Job Description
The Software Business Analyst is responsible for eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and validating business and system requirements for software solutions. This role acts as the primary translation layer between business users, product owners, and engineering teams to ensure that software delivered aligns with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and operational workflows.
Key Responsibilities
- Elicit, analyze, and document business, functional, and non-functional requirements
- Translate business needs into clear, testable system requirements
- Validate requirements with stakeholders and ensure alignment with business goals
- Decompose high-level objectives into detailed user stories, use cases, and process flows
- Define data requirements, business rules, and system interfaces
- Manage conflicting stakeholder priorities and negotiate scope when required
- Ensure changes are assessed for impact and properly approved
- Support sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release planning
- Maintain requirement artifacts such as BRDs, user stories, and traceability matrices
Qualifications & Requirements
- Minimum 4+ years of experience in designing enterprise software solutions.
- Experience in identifying potential impacts and/or gaps in terms of organization, business and processes between current customer situations, and the desired end-state of the software solution.
- Experience designing complex software products including the deployment of multiple versions/releases of a large product.
- Proven ability to anticipate and appropriately escalate on forthcoming issues and risks of the software solution.
- Proven experience in the use of Microsoft Azure DevOps (or Atlassian Jira), including the creation, tracking and reporting of user stories.
- Ability to author design specifications and functional design documentation for the software development team.
- Ability to work collaboratively with business stakeholders and software development teams, while driving software innovations and improvements to achieve business optimization.
- Ability to prepare and present concepts and vision (written and verbal) to the software development team, management, and other internal and external stakeholders.
- Must demonstrate ability to work independently and utilize critical thinking skills as required.
- Good understanding of Agile methodology including experience with Scrum methods and processes.
- Candidate must be an excellent communicator.
