Senior Business Analyst
Koch · Dallas, TX · 6 days ago
On-siteAnalyst$115k–$145k/yrFull-time
Requirements
- Elicit, document, and maintain business requirements, functional specifications, and user stories across SCR, UBID, and RBM.
- Translate regulatory, contractual, and customer-driven requirements into clear, testable specifications that engineering and QA can act on.
- Maintain traceability between business requirements, engineering deliverables, and QA acceptance criteria.
- Own the quality bar for requirements artifacts, ensuring ambiguity is resolved before work enters a sprint.
Responsibilities
- Write complete, well-structured user stories directly in Jira, including clear descriptions, acceptance criteria, business context, and references to supporting documentation.
- Ensure every story entering a sprint meets a defined “ready” bar, with enough detail for engineering to estimate and execute without follow-up guesswork.
- Lead and participate in backlog refinement sessions, walking engineers through story details, business intent, edge cases, and acceptance criteria.
- Serve as the on-call requirements owner throughout the development lifecycle, answering questions from engineers in real time as they work through implementation.
- Adjust stories, add clarifications, or break down work mid-sprint when new information surfaces, while protecting scope and timelines.
- Partner with engineering leads to triage requirements ambiguity quickly and reduce blockers caused by unclear specifications.
- Map current-state and future-state business processes across the three platforms, including customer onboarding, verification, billing, provisioning, and reporting workflows.
- Identify process gaps, inefficiencies, and automation opportunities, and recommend solutions that balance business, engineering, and operational realities.
- Maintain a single source of truth for platform workflows, state models, and business rules, in Confluence or an equivalent system.
- Cross-Product Alignment
- Act as the bridge across SCR, UBID, and RBM, identifying shared concepts, data models, and workflows that benefit from consistent treatment.
- Surface cross-product impacts of proposed changes, so decisions made in one product are understood in the context of the others.
- Support entity resolution, identity, and data consistency initiatives that span multiple platforms.
- Stakeholder Partnership and Communication
- Partner with Product Management on roadmap definition, discovery work, and prioritization, providing analytical rigor and documentation support.
- Serve as a key interface with Customer Success and Operations to capture real-world customer needs, special cases, and recurring support themes.
- Support executive-level and partner-facing communications (including CTIA) with clear written materials, process diagrams, and analytical summaries.
- Participate in customer-facing conversations as needed to clarify requirements or validate proposed solutions directly with enterprise customers.
- Engineering and QA Partnership
- Work closely with engineering leadership and our external development partner to ensure requirements are understood, scoped accurately, and delivered as intended.
- Partner with QA on acceptance criteria, test scenarios, and edge cases to ensure shared understanding of “done.”
- Participate in sprint ceremonies (backlog refinement, planning, demos) to keep requirements current and answer questions in real time.
- Data, Reporting, and Analysis
- Define reporting and analytics requirements tied to SLAs, operational KPIs, and customer-facing dashboards (including SLA performance reporting for CTIA).
- Perform ad hoc analysis of platform data to support decisions, investigations, and strategic planning.
- Support the team in translating raw platform data into narratives leadership can act on.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of business analysis experience, including 3+ years as a senior or lead BA working on complex SaaS or platform products.
- Experience authoring Jira user stories and requirements artifacts (BRDs, functional specs, acceptance criteria) for engineering consumption.
- Experience leading backlog refinement sessions and partnering with engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle to answer requirements questions and unblock implementation.
- Strong process mapping and documentation skills, with fluency in tools such as Confluence, Lucidchart, Miro, or equivalents.
- Experience working with external development vendors and translating requirements clearly across organizational boundaries.
- Hands-on data analysis ability, including comfort with SQL or similar tools for self-service data exploration.
- Experience in B2B or SaaS environments with contractual SLAs and enterprise customers.
- Demonstrable written/visual communication skills: executive summaries, process diagrams and stakeholder presentations.