Business Analyst-3

Realign Llc; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Realign Llc seeks an experienced Business Analyst to bridge business stakeholders, product owners, and technology teams. Translate business requirements into well-defined user stories, and collaborate with QA, architecture, and dev teams to support Agile delivery.

The role requires minimum 7 years of experience, strong requirement elicitation and process mapping, and hands-on Agile practices. Primary skill: Business Analyst; secondary: JIRA, Jenkins, Github.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience in business analysis or a related field.
• Proven ability to elicit requirements and translate them into user stories.
• Experience in Agile delivery and backlog management.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and document requirements.
• Create and refine user stories, acceptance criteria, and story points.
• Break down requirements into epics, features, and stories.
• Facilitate discussions across business, development, QA, and product teams.
• Analyze processes and identify opportunities for improvement and automation.
• Support sprint planning, backlog grooming, UAT, and releases.
• Ensure clear communication of requirements across stakeholders.
• Serve as the point of contact for clarification and guidance.

Skills

Business Analyst

Tools

JIRA

Jenkins

Github

Job description

Location : Richmond, VA/Kennesaw, GA/Chicago, IL

Full Time

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Primary Skill: Business Analyst

Secondary: JIRA, Jenkins, Github.

Experience: Minimum 7 years

The Business Analyst will act as a bridge between business stakeholders, product owners, and technology teams to translate business requirements into well-defined and actionable user stories. The ideal candidate should possess strong techno-functional expertise, excellent requirement-gathering skills, and hands-on experience in Agile delivery practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand, analyze, and document business requirements.
• Create and refine user stories, define acceptance criteria, and support story point estimation.
• Break down large business requirements into manageable epics, features, and user stories.
• Facilitate discussions between business, development, QA, architecture, and product teams to ensure alignment.
• Analyze business processes and identify opportunities for process improvement and automation.
• Support sprint planning, backlog grooming, UAT, and release activities.
• Ensure requirements are clearly communicated and understood across all stakeholder groups.
• Act as the single point of contact for requirement clarification and functional guidance.

Required Skills

• Strong Business Analysis fundamentals including requirement elicitation, process mapping, and stakeholder management.
• Proven experience in user story creation, story decomposition, acceptance criteria definition, and Agile methodologies.
• Ability to facilitate workshops, requirement sessions, and stakeholder discussions.
• Strong techno-functional understanding to effectively interact with development and architecture teams.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
• Excellent communication, documentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to bridge communication gaps between business and technology teams and drive consensus among stakeholders.

Preferred

• Experience in Banking, Financial Services, Wealth Management, or Enterprise Digital Transformation programs.
• Knowledge of UI- API integrations, Microservices, and modern application architectures is an added advantage.