Senior Business Analyst

Valiant Technologies LLC; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support legacy applications within the Jacksonville (JAX) manufacturing IT ecosystem. You will collaborate with stakeholders, SMEs, Product Owners, and project teams to analyze processes, define requirements, assess impacts, and assist with testing, validation, and deployment.

The role focuses on leading requirements gathering, documenting as-is and to-be states, data-flow mapping, and ensuring traceability and release

Qualifications

• Strong experience in business and system requirements analysis.
• Skilled in As-Is/To-Be process mapping and legacy systems analysis.
• Hands-on with creating user stories, acceptance criteria, and maintaining requirements in JIRA.
• Knowledge of impact analysis, change management, and requirements traceability.
• Experience supporting UAT, defect analysis, testing, and release readiness.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements gathering for JAX legacy applications.
• Document current-state and future-state business processes.
• Map data-flow and system-flow across legacy and target apps.
• Translate needs into requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain requirements and backlogs in JIRA.
• Facilitate requirements reviews and backlog grooming with teams.
• Analyze impacts and dependencies across interfacing systems.
• Manage approved changes and assess scope/design/testing impact.
• Support UAT planning, test scenarios, defect clarification, and traceability.
• Escalate gaps, risks, and decisions with Product Owner and Technical Lead.

Skills

Business requirements analysis

As-Is/To-Be mapping

JIRA backlog management

Impact analysis

Change management

Requirements traceability

UAT support

Stakeholder facilitation

Agile/Scrum knowledge

Job description

US Citizen, Green Card, H-1B, OPT-EAD, CPT, Other

Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support legacy applications within the Jacksonville (JAX) manufacturing IT ecosystem. The candidate will collaborate with business stakeholders, Quality teams, Technical Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Product Owners, and project teams to analyze existing processes, define business and system requirements, assess application impacts, and support implementation, testing, validation, and deployment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead business and system requirements gathering for JAX legacy applications.
• Document current-state (As-Is) and future-state (To-Be) business and system processes.
• Perform business process, data-flow, and system-flow mapping across legacy and target applications.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and risk assessments.
• Maintain requirements, documentation, and backlogs in JIRA.
• Facilitate requirements reviews and backlog grooming sessions with Business, Technical, Quality, and Development teams.
• Conduct impact and dependency analysis across interfacing systems.
• Manage approved requirement changes and evaluate their impact on scope, design, testing, validation, dependencies, and delivery.
• Support UAT planning, test scenario definition, defect clarification, requirements traceability, and release readiness.
• Partner with the Product Owner and Technical Lead to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and decisions requiring escalation.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong experience in business and system requirements analysis.
• Proficiency in As-Is/To-Be process mapping, data-flow analysis, and legacy systems analysis.
• Hands-on experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, and maintaining requirements in JIRA.
• Knowledge of impact analysis, change management, scope control, and requirements traceability.
• Experience supporting UAT, defect analysis, testing, and release readiness.
• Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies, risk assessment, and dependency management.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.