Senior Business Analyst - Data & Systems Strategy

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

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