Platform Specs Analyst
About the role
Northwest Partners is supporting a major initiative with a top-tier organization in the technology space and is looking for an experienced Platform Specs Analyst to contribute to the success of this work. This role translates business outcomes, architecture intent, and platform capabilities into structured specifications that can be consumed by engineering teams and AI-assisted development workflows.
What YOU will do
- Translate product goals, architecture decisions, stakeholder needs, and platform constraints into clear, implementation-ready specifications.
- Author platform capability definitions, API contracts, data contracts, event contracts, agent contracts, non-functional requirements, and testable acceptance criteria.
- Create structured context packages for AI-assisted development, including business rules, workflow definitions, edge cases, sample payloads, user journeys, and validation expectations.
- Maintain traceability from business objectives to requirements, design artifacts, test scenarios, release criteria, and production outcomes.
- Partner with Product Owners, Architects, Engineers, and subject matter experts to refine backlogs, decompose work, clarify dependencies, and reduce cross-team coordination friction.
- Define test scenarios and quality validation patterns so QA is embedded into the requirements-to-context pipeline rather than handled as a downstream handoff.
- Maintain reusable specification templates, standards, glossaries, and golden-path documentation for teams.
- Validate delivered functionality against intended outcomes and identify gaps between requirements, implementation, and operating behavior.
What YOU will bring us
- Strong business analysis, systems analysis, requirements engineering, and technical documentation skills.
- Ability to work with API specifications, integration patterns, data schemas, workflow definitions, and service contracts.
- Experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, scenarios, test cases, process flows, and implementation artifacts.
- Familiarity with agile delivery, product backlogs, QA automation concepts, and AI-assisted development workflows.
- Ability to communicate effectively with business, engineering, architecture, security, and operations stakeholders.
- Ability to create precise technical context that supports efficient engineering and AI-assisted development.
- Ability to establish clear requirements and coordination patterns that reduce recurring clarification needs.
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Short term Disability
- Long-term Disability
- Life Insurance
- Education Benefits and more
About Northwest Partners
Northwest Partners is an equal opportunity employer. At Northwest Partners we are dedicated to moving at the speed of innovation. We work with clients across the globe to provide exceptional knowledge, talent, and resources. As a trusted partner, we merge the client's vision with our expertise to deliver powerful results. Northwest Partners is known for building and managing elite teams in technology across diverse industries. Our mission is to empower every talent and every client to achieve more.