Middle Business Analyst

Sombra; Colombia; On-site; COP 70,000,000 - 110,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Sombra seeks a skilled Business Analyst to drive requirements from discovery through delivery in software projects. You will elicit, analyze, and document comprehensive business needs and ensure alignment with product goals throughout the lifecycle.

Key tasks include creating user stories, managing backlogs with the Product Owner, and facilitating workshops. Strong communication in English is required; remote collaboration is common.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of commercial experience as a Business Analyst in software development projects.
• Strong understanding of business analysis, including requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation.
• Experience gathering and documenting business, functional, and non-functional requirements and translating them into clear, structured, and actionable requirements.
• Experience creating user stories, use cases, process flows, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria.
• Good understanding of the software development lifecycle, Scrum, and Kanban, with experience using Jira and Confluence.
• Ability to facilitate stakeholder interviews, workshops, clarification meetings and identify gaps, dependencies, inconsistencies, and risks in requirements.
• Experience collaborating with developers, QA engineers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.
• Understanding of REST APIs, integrations, databases, and basic technical concepts needed to communicate effectively with development teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, and communication skills, with Upper-Intermediate (B2) or higher English, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently and proactively.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business, functional, and non-functional requirements with stakeholders.
• Translate business needs into user stories, use cases, functional specifications, process flows, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure requirements are complete, consistent, testable, and clear to development and QA teams.
• Maintain and refine the product backlog with the Product Owner and facilitate interviews, workshops, clarification sessions, and backlog refinement meetings.
• Analyze existing processes and systems, identify gaps and improvement opportunities, and propose potential solutions.
• Support developers and QA engineers during implementation by clarifying requirements, managing changes, and providing additional business context.
• Review delivered functionality against documented requirements and acceptance criteria and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Maintain project artifacts in Jira and Confluence, track dependencies, risks, scope changes, and requirement gaps, and support alignment between business objectives and delivered functionality.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements elicitation

Requirements analysis

Documentation

Validation

Stakeholder interviews

Facilitation

Team collaboration

REST APIs understanding

English communication (B2+)

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Required for this role

• 3+ years of commercial experience as a Business Analyst in software development projects.
• Strong understanding of business analysis, including requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation.
• Experience gathering and documenting business, functional, and non-functional requirements and translating them into clear, structured, and actionable requirements.
• Experience creating user stories, use cases, process flows, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria.
• Good understanding of the software development lifecycle, Scrum, and Kanban, with experience using Jira and Confluence.
• Ability to facilitate stakeholder interviews, workshops, and clarification meetings and identify gaps, dependencies, inconsistencies, and risks in requirements.
• Experience collaborating with developers, QA engineers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.
• Understanding of REST APIs, integrations, databases, and basic technical concepts needed to communicate effectively with development teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, and communication skills, with Upper-Intermediate (B2) or higher English, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently and proactively.

Your responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business, functional, and non-functional requirements with stakeholders.
• Translate business needs into user stories, use cases, functional specifications, process flows, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure requirements are complete, consistent, testable, and clear to development and QA teams.
• Maintain and refine the product backlog with the Product Owner and facilitate interviews, workshops, clarification sessions, and backlog refinement meetings.
• Analyze existing processes and systems, identify gaps and improvement opportunities, and propose potential solutions.
• Support developers and QA engineers during implementation by clarifying requirements, managing changes, and providing additional business context.
• Review delivered functionality against documented requirements and acceptance criteria and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Maintain project artifacts in Jira and Confluence, track dependencies, risks, scope changes, and requirement gaps, and support alignment between business objectives and delivered functionality.

What you get

Your time off

• Up to 15 paid vacation days annually
• Additional unpaid days off
• 19 Colombian public holidays

Learning & growth

• Sombra University workshops and internal learning programs
• Tech Communities and knowledge sharing sessions
• Language courses and workshops
• Mentorship opportunities
• Access to the Platzi online learning platform

And even more

• Company-provided work equipment
• Internal referral program
• Bonuses for getting married or the birth of a child
• Sombra events and internal initiatives