Hybrid Business Analyst & Product Owner - Drive Backlog

Medpace; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation programs

Comprehensive health, wellness, and 退休

Office-based culture with occasional W

Company-sponsored social events

Job summary

Medpace, headquartered in Cincinnati, is seeking a skilled Business Analyst to bridge business needs and software development. You will elicit requirements, craft detailed documentation, and translate business language for technical teams, ensuring clarity as projects evolve.

You will also support testing, maintain traceability from needs to features, map processes, perform data analyses, and act as a proxy Product Owner to prioritize the backlog for the business area.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business Administration, Business Analytics, or Information Systems.
• 2+ years of experience in a Software Development environment.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies, systems and processes.
• Demonstrated business acumen.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Strong understanding of application programming, database and system design.

Responsibilities

• Eliciting requirements through stakeholder interviews, workshops, observation, and document review.
• Writing requirements artifacts: business requirements documents, functional specs, user stories with acceptance criteria, use cases, and data definitions.
• Acting as translator between business stakeholders and developers, clarifying ambiguity during development, and keeping requirements current as understanding evolves.
• Supporting testing: defining test scenarios, helping with UAT, and confirming that what was built matches what was needed.
• Maintaining traceability from business need to requirement to delivered feature.
• Mapping current-state and future-state business processes, and identifying gaps and inefficiencies.
• Doing data analysis, impact analysis, and root-cause analysis to support decisions.
• Acting as a proxy Product Owner where none exists, maintaining the backlog for the business area and proposing reasoned priority.

Skills

Software development experience

Business acumen

Project management

Requirements gathering

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business Administration/Analytics/IS

Job description

Medpace, headquartered in Cincinnati, is seeking a skilled Business Analyst to bridge business needs and software development. You will elicit requirements, craft detailed documentation, and translate business language for technical teams, ensuring clarity as projects evolve.

You will also support testing, maintain traceability from needs to features, map processes, perform data analyses, and act as a proxy Product Owner to prioritize the backlog for the business area.