Business Analyst-4

Realign Llc; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Realign Llc in the United States seeks an experienced Business Analyst to bridge business stakeholders, product owners, and technology teams. You will translate business requirements into well-defined user stories and collaborate across Agile teams to deliver value.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in business analysis, strong elicitation/documentation skills, and hands-on experience with JIRA, Confluence, and Azure DevOps. Banking/financial services exposure is a plus.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience in business analysis.
• Proven ability to gather requirements and document them clearly.
• Strong skills in creating/refining user stories and defining acceptance criteria.
• Hands-on experience in Agile delivery and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Business Analysis

JIRA

Jenkins

GitHub

Agile methodologies

Requirements elicitation

Process mapping

Stakeholder management

User stories

Acceptance criteria

Tools

Azure DevOps

Confluence

JIRA

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.