Business Analyst

Lateral Insights LLC; Great Falls (VA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Lateral Insights LLC seeks a Sr Business Analyst to lead requirements, design and testing for a major modernization of a public utility application in PA. You will translate business needs into user stories, coordinate with Product Manager and technical teams, and guide UAT to ensure accurate, compliant delivery.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years of BA experience, strong Agile/Scrum skills, and proven ability to drive process improvements while ensuring security and WCAG accessibility standards.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Business Analyst experience including senior roles.
• Experience analyzing legacy applications or leading digital transformation.
• Strong ability to translate requirements into clear user stories.

Responsibilities

• Document existing requirements and verify key functionality.
• Prioritize requirements and map to policy requirements.
• Recommend system improvements with business units.
• Propose new features delivering business value.
• Translate requirements into user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Assist in evaluating technical approaches and integration decisions.
• Ensure business requirements are understood by the delivery team.
• Support change management, user adoption, and training.
• Ensure compliance with security, accessibility (WCAG), and data privacy standards.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and impediments; provide status updates.

Skills

7+ years BA experience

Senior BA experience

Legacy modernization

Agile/Scrum

Azure DevOps

Jira

UAT leadership

Requirements gathering

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

EOE Statement We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Category Information Technology

Role: Sr Business Analyst

Hybrid Work: Harrisburg PA

Candidates are expected to be in the office in PA 2 days a week (offices available statewide) with one of those days being Wednesday. 3 days can be worked from home/remote.

Position Summary

The client is seeking an experienced Sr. Business Analyst to work on requirement gathering, design and testing for the modernization of the Commission's their application. The application is critically important for resolving complaints from the public with utilities companies. A three-year long modernization effort is about to start that will involve the planning and delivery of this exciting project. This role will be responsible for working with the business unit subject matter experts and identifying and recommending key system improvements while retaining the existing key functionality and ensuring it is migrated to the new system. This role requires someone with a strong background in identifying ways to make process improvements wherever they can occur. This position will require an individual that can work well with a team and be able to work independently. This role will make recommendations to the business unit, be able to clearly document them and be able to discuss in detail with other team members such as the Product Manager, Data Modeler, Developers, and Product Owner. This individual will also need a strong testing background and will be able to test the functionality of the system to verify the accuracy of the changes.

Key Responsibilities

• Document the existing requirements of the application and verify all key functionality is accounted for.
• Prioritizes requirements, link them to legislative/policy requirements where applicable
• Work with the various business units and make recommendations for system improvements.
• Propose new features that bring business value to the system.
• Work directly with the Product Manager in the translation of business requirements into clear user stories and define the acceptance criteria.
• Assist in analyzing technical approaches (including potential platform, architecture, and integration decisions) as needed.
• Work with the Product Manager as needed to assist in assuring business requirements is clearly understood by the technical delivery team.
• Support change management, user adoption, and training efforts related to the modernized solution as needed.
• Ensure the product aligns with Commonwealth and PA PUC standards for security, accessibility (WCAG), data privacy, and compliance.
• Help identify risks, dependencies, and impediments.
• Provide regular status updates and recommendations to IT leadership and business sponsors.

Required Skills

• 7+ years of Business Analyst experience, including at least 3 years in a Senior Business Analyst role
• Experience analyzing legacy applications or leading requirements gathering for digital transformation initiatives
• Strong requirements-gathering experience and ability to translate requirements into clear user stories
• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar
• Experience testing large-scale projects
• Experience leading and coordinating UAT
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to manage competing demands

Highly Desired Skills

• Experience supporting enterprise application modernization, including legacy platform migrations and transition to modern architectures
• Experience with process improvement and business process reengineering
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards and public-sector compliance requirements
• YAFOS Certification

Full-Time/Part-Time -unspecified-

This position is currently accepting applications.