Senior Business Analyst

NuAxis Innovations; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis Innovations in the United States is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to lead requirements recovery and QA for modernization projects. The role emphasizes AI-assisted analysis, traceability from legacy to new systems, and collaboration with stakeholders to validate rules and acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities include modeling processes, writing user stories, coordinating UAT, and maintaining end-to-end traceability across design, build, test, and deployment in a federal IT environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, IT, or related field.
• 5–8 years of BA experience in complex IT projects.
• Experience with legacy modernization or requirements recovery.
• IIBA CBAP, PMI-PBA, Agile certs, and AI fundamentals favored.
• Strong elicitation, modeling, and traceability skills.
• Proficient with Jira/Confluence and BI tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements recovery and validation for modernization.
• Reconstruct business rules from legacy artifacts with AI analysis.
• Build authoritative rules catalog traceable from legacy to target.
• Author user stories and acceptance criteria for migrations.
• Facilitate workshops to validate recovered rules and resolve discrepancies.
• Produce current/future state process models and data flows.
• Maintain requirements traceability from origin to delivery.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Business rule reconstruction

User stories & acceptance criteria

Process modeling (BPMN/UML)

AI-assisted analysis

UAT coordination

Workshop facilitation

Education

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

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Visio

Lucidchart

BPMN 2.0

UML

Azure DevOps Boards

Excel

Power BI

SQL

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 is a state of mind.

We believe happy employees do amazing work, so join our team NOW! We are currently seeking a talented and motivated Senior Business Analyst for a Full-Time position.

Role Summary

Leads quality assurance and Section 508 conformance for the modernization, with specific accountability for proving functional equivalence between the legacy system and its replacement. Applies AI-assisted test generation and defect triage while maintaining formal, auditable accessibility evidence produced by human testers.

Key Responsibilities

Leads requirements recovery and validation for the modernization, reconstructing business rules embedded in decades-old legacy code where documentation is absent or unreliable. Applies AI-assisted analysis across legacy source, data, and artifacts, and is accountable for confirming every recovered rule with system behavior and stakeholder validation.

Key Responsibilities

• Reconstruct business rules from legacy source, data, and artifacts using AI-assisted analysis, and confirm each against observed system behavior.
• Build and maintain the authoritative rules catalog traceable from legacy implementation to target-state requirement.
• Author user stories and acceptance criteria for migration increments, including equivalence criteria for functional parity.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops to validate recovered rules and adjudicate discrepancies between documented and actual behavior.
• Produce current-state and future-state process models and data flow documentation.
• Maintain requirements traceability from legacy origin through design, build, test, and acceptance.

Coordinate User Acceptance Testing and mentor junior analysts on disciplined AI-assisted analysis.

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, including legacy modernization or requirements recovery work, along with demonstrated use of AI-assisted analysis tools.

Certifications: One required certification and one certification obtainable after hire. Preferred certifications include IIBA Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA), Agile certifications such as CSM, SAFe, or PMI-ACP, and Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900).

Required Skills: Requirements elicitation and recovery, business rule reconstruction from legacy systems, user story and acceptance criteria development, process modeling using BPMN and UML, AI-assisted document and code analysis with source verification, requirements traceability, workshop facilitation, and UAT coordination.

Preferred Skills: Experience in claims, benefits, or case management domains, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over legacy documentation, SQL for data validation, and federal-sector experience.

Technical Environment: Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart, BPMN 2.0, UML, AI-assisted document and code analysis tools, retrieval-augmented generation over legacy artifacts, Miro, SQL for data validation, Excel, Power BI, and 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!