Senior Business Analyst

About the role

Location: New York City, NY (Hybrid). Experience: 10+ Years. Senior Business Analyst operating within a hybrid Agile framework to analyze legacy system functionality, extract business rules, and drive mainframe modernization for large-scale Health & Human Services initiatives. Responsible for creating high-quality user stories, facilitating agile practices, supporting UX/UI prototyping, and collaborating with Product Owners and enterprise architects to define future-state roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Legacy Modernization & Analysis: Extract, transform, and document legacy mainframe functionality, system logic, and business rules to map modern functional solutions.
• Agile Requirements & Backlog Management: Author detailed user stories, build extensive product backlogs, and refine requirements based on product roadmaps.
• Agile Facilitation: Drive agile practices and ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and product roadmap development.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with architects to evaluate architecture diagrams and system dependencies, and collaborate with UX/UI designers on prototyping.
• Risk & Gap Analysis: Perform independent and team-based gap analyses, identify system dependencies, and conduct risk assessments across complex functional domains.

Qualifications

• Mandatory: 7+ Years experience on complex projects, with at least 2 years in a leadership role as a Business Analyst.
• Mandatory: 10+ Years identifying, documenting, creating user stories, and validating functional and system requirements across multiple projects (minimum 7 years in Agile or Hybrid Agile environments).
• Mandatory: 1+ Year experience within a Health & Human Services setting across workstreams such as Eligibility, Financial Management, or Child Support.
• Preferred: 5+ Years analyzing, extracting, transforming, and documenting legacy system logic and business rules.
• Preferred: 4+ Years identifying and validating system requirements on mainframe modernization projects spanning complex functional domains.
• Preferred: 5+ Years writing user stories, collaborating with UX/UI designers, and participating in agile ceremonies.
• Preferred: 5+ Years leading full, end-to-end analysis on projects independently.
• Preferred: 4–7 Years utilizing requirements management tools (e.g., Jira, Blueprint).

Skills

• business rules
• mainframe
• projects
• management
• agile
• user stories
• ux
• ceremonies
• modernization
• architects