SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

Talent Software Services; Rochester (MN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Software Services in Rochester, MN is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to bridge business needs and technical teams across local, institutional, and enterprise levels. You will evaluate costs, benefits, and risks of proposed investments and help define requirements and acceptance criteria.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to document objectives, apply systems engineering discipline through the project lifecycle, and support deployment of deliverables, while guiding discovery

Qualifications

• 5 years of business analysis experience supporting complex technology or data-focused initiatives.
• Strong requirements analysis, eliciting and translating business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, and functional requirements.
• Strong business/technical bridge, proven ability to work effectively with business stakeholders, product owners, and developers.
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management, leading discovery sessions and workshops.
• Agile delivery experience, backlog refinement, story decomposition, sprint planning, testing/UAT, and working with delivery teams.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and complexity, independently structuring unclear problems and driving actionable decisions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders and users to synthesize, articulate, and document business objectives and requirements.
• Apply system and analytical thinking to project work across the lifecycle.
• Use systems engineering methodologies throughout the project lifecycle.
• Perform data analysis and translate requirements to functional specifications.
• Assist project leaders in coordinating deployment of deliverables and maintain effective communication.
• Build credibility and partner with others to understand needs and drive consensus.
• May manage mid-level projects or sub-components of larger initiatives.

Skills

Requirements analysis

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Facilitation

Documentation & user stories

Education

CBAP/PMI-PBA certification

Job description

Job Summary:

Provides business analysis services at a local, institutional, or enterprise level. Understands and considers both the business and the technical needs of all customers with the goal of providing a quality product or process that meets the business objectives. Examines costs, benefits, and risks associated with the proposed investment/project and recommends alternatives for solutions throughout the business life cycle.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders and users to synthesize, articulate, and document business objectives and requirements by applying system and analytical thinking methodology and discipline.
• Proficient understanding of business strategy and business planning principles and applies to project work (areas may include but not limited to: value proposition, mission/strategy, goals/objectives, technology assessments, funding, and management/administration). Contributes to project charter and plans, work assignments, target dates, and other aspects of assigned projects.
• Applies systems engineering methodologies and discipline throughout the project lifecycle.
• Performs data analysis, defines and documents business requirements, supports translation to functional specifications early in the development cycle, and concludes with design synthesis and system validation while considering the complete system.
• Assists project leaders in coordinating deployment of deliverables. Demonstrates system and analytical thinking capability. Progressive knowledge and demonstrated use of business analysis methodologies and tools.
• Maintains effective correspondence and in-person communication. Builds credibility, rapport, and partners with others to understand their needs and provides conflict resolution, problem-solving, and ability to drive consensus. Works in partnership with stakeholders to develop a solid knowledge base of business needs.
• May manage projects of mid-level complexity, which could include sub-components of larger-scale projects as directed by project leaders.

Scope:

The Senior Business Analysts will partner with engineering teams responsible for application development in the Research Data Atlas program. The business analyst will be responsible for requirements management across the SDLC.

Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 5 years of business analysis experience supporting complex technology or data-focused initiatives.
• Strong requirements analysis, eliciting and translating business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, and functional requirements.
• Strong business/technical bridge, proven ability to work effectively with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, developers, and other technical teams.
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management, leading discovery sessions, requirements workshops, and cross-functional discussions.
• Agile delivery experience, backlog refinement, story decomposition, sprint planning, testing/UAT, and working closely with delivery teams.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and complexity, independently structuring unclear problems, identifying gaps and dependencies, and driving work toward actionable decisions.

Preferred:

• Healthcare experience, particularly healthcare data, clinical systems, research, or informatics.
• Data-focused experience, data flows, mapping, data quality, validation, and/or complex datasets.
• Systems integration experience, APIs, interfaces, data exchanges, and upstream/downstream system dependencies.
• Process analysis/improvement experience, current/future-state mapping, gap analysis, and workflow optimization.
• Relevant certifications such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, or Agile/Scrum credentials.