Senior Business Analyst

NuAxis Innovations; United States; On-site; USD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis Innovations in the United States seeks a Senior Business Analyst to lead analysis for complex IT projects, elicit and document detailed requirements, and serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and delivery teams.

You will translate needs into user stories and specs, create current/future state models, facilitate workshops, and mentor junior analysts while ensuring traceability, UAT coordination, and alignment with program goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and 5–8 years of BA experience.
• Agile certifications (CSM, SAFe, PMI-ACP) required.
• CCBA or PMI-PBA obtainable within 180 days of hire.
• CBAP or SAFe PO/PM preferred.
• Strong requirements elicitation, documentation, modeling, and traceability.
• Experience facilitating workshops and coordinating UAT.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, and document business and functional requirements across stakeholder groups.
• Translate business needs into technical specs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop current-state and future-state process models and data flows.
• Conduct gap and cost-benefit analyses for proposed solutions.
• Maintain requirements traceability from origin through design, build, and testing.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing and mentor junior analysts.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

User stories

Acceptance criteria

Process modeling

Gap analysis

Stakeholder management

UAT coordination

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration / Information Systems / IT

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Visio

Lucidchart

UML

BPMN

Miro

Excel

Power BI

SQL

Azure DevOps

SharePoint

Figma

Job description

We are a federal IT company on a mission to make customer experience (CX) the center of every government solution. Technology is our Passion. People are our Purpose. We know tech, but we love people. NuAxis is home to thinkers and feelers; engineers and artists. We work hard and support each other along the way. Teamwork is more than just a buzzword for us, it’s a state of mind. We believe happy employees do amazing work, so join our team NOW! We are currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a Full-Time position.

Job Summary:

Leads business analysis for complex IT projects, eliciting and documenting detailed requirements from stakeholders across multiple organizational units. Translates business needs into technical specifications and serves as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, and document business and functional requirements across multiple stakeholder groups.


• Translate business needs into technical specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.


• Develop process flow diagrams, current-state and future-state models, and data flow documentation.


• Conduct gap analysis, facilitate requirements workshops, and perform cost-benefit analysis for proposed solutions.


• Maintain requirements traceability from origin through design, build, test, and acceptance.


• Validate that delivered systems meet stated business objectives; coordinate User Acceptance Testing.


• Mentor junior analysts and support backlog grooming and sprint planning.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Information Technology, or a related field.


• Minimum Experience: Five (5) to eight (8) years of business analysis experience supporting complex IT projects.


• Certifications — Required: Agile certification (CSM, SAFe, PMI-ACP, or equivalent).


• Certifications — Obtainable After Hire: IIBA Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA) or PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA), within 180 days of assignment.


• Certifications — Preferred: IIBA Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP); SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager.


• Required Skills: Requirements elicitation and documentation; user story and acceptance criteria authoring; process modeling (BPMN, UML); gap and cost-benefit analysis; requirements traceability; workshop facilitation; stakeholder management; UAT coordination.


• Preferred Skills: Federal sector experience; low-code platform requirements experience; Section 508 requirements awareness; data analysis and reporting.

Technical Environment

Jira and Confluence; Microsoft Visio and Lucidchart; BPMN 2.0 and UML notation; Miro collaborative workshops; Microsoft 365 and SharePoint; Excel and Power BI for analysis; Figma for design review; SQL for data validation; Azure DevOps boards.

Our Profile:

We are an IT company with a unique mission—to make people the center of every federal IT solution. Our technologists have always gone the extra mile to help our federal clients succeed. And over the years, we saw a growing disconnect in how federal IT initiatives were built and managed.Time after time, programs failed because the focus was on the tools and products and not the people using them. Learn More.

NuAxis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation. Learn More about our Benefits and Culture!