Senior Business Analyst — Agile Requirements & Story Crafting

Realign Llc; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Realign Llc in Chicago, IL is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to bridge business stakeholders and technology teams, translating requirements into actionable user stories and clear acceptance criteria.

The role emphasizes techno-functional expertise, agile delivery practices, and collaboration across product, QA, architecture, and development teams to deliver value. Minimum 7 years of BA experience preferred.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst.
• Strong requirement elicitation, process mapping, and stakeholder management.
• Hands-on in Agile delivery and writing well-defined user stories.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand, analyze, and document business requirements.
• Create and refine user stories, define acceptance criteria, and support story point estimation.
• Break down large business requirements into epics, features, and user stories.
• Facilitate discussions between business, development, QA, architecture, and product teams to ensure alignment.
• Analyze business processes and identify opportunities for process improvement and automation.
• Support sprint planning, backlog grooming, UAT, and release activities.
• Ensure requirements are clearly communicated and understood across all stakeholder groups.
• Act as the single point of contact for requirement clarification and functional guidance.

Skills

Business Analyst

JIRA

Jenkins

Github

Tools

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Job description

Realign Llc in Chicago, IL is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to bridge business stakeholders and technology teams, translating requirements into actionable user stories and clear acceptance criteria.

The role emphasizes techno-functional expertise, agile delivery practices, and collaboration across product, QA, architecture, and development teams to deliver value. Minimum 7 years of BA experience preferred.