Senior Business Analyst Energy

iShare Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Part time

Job summary

iShare Inc. is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to analyze business processes in the energy sector, gather requirements, and document solutions. The role emphasizes stakeholder management and close collaboration with product and tech teams.

The role requires 4+ years BA experience, strong process-mapping and requirements skills, and willingness to work onsite in Houston. Prior energy/commodity-trading exposure is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• Experience documenting BRDs, FRDs, user stories, and use cases.
• Experience with both Agile and Waterfall delivery.
• Strong stakeholder communication and facilitation skills.
• Knowledge of energy sector processes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business and tech stakeholders to understand needs and objectives.
• Lead workshops and interviews to gather requirements.
• Analyze current-state processes to identify gaps and risks.
• Create current-state and future-state process maps and procedures.
• Prepare BRDs, FRDs, user stories, use cases, and design docs.
• Translate requirements into clear specs for delivery teams.
• Coordinate with product owners, developers, architects, testing, and users.
• Support solution design, testing, UAT, implementation, and change management.
• Maintain requirements traceability and ensure delivery meets expectations.
• Provide regular project updates and resolve requirement-related issues.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Process mapping

BRD/FRD creation

Stakeholder management

UAT support

Agile & Waterfall

Documentation

Visio / Lucidchart

Communication

Tools

Microsoft Visio

Lucidchart

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Senior Business Analyst – Energy

Location: Houston, Texas
Employment Type: Contract
Work Arrangement: Onsite

Role Summary

We are seeking a strong Business Analyst with experience analyzing business processes, gathering requirements, and preparing detailed process and solution documentation. The ideal candidate should have excellent stakeholder-management skills and preferably have experience in the energy, oil and gas, utilities, or commodity-trading domain.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with business and technology stakeholders to understand business needs, challenges, and objectives.
• Conduct workshops and interviews to gather and validate business and functional requirements.
• Analyze current-state processes and identify gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Develop current-state and future-state process maps, workflows, and operating procedures.
• Prepare Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirements Documents, user stories, use cases, and process-design documents.
• Translate business requirements into clear specifications for technical and delivery teams.
• Coordinate with product owners, developers, architects, testing teams, and business users throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support solution design, testing, user acceptance testing, implementation, and change-management activities.
• Maintain requirements traceability and ensure that delivered solutions meet business expectations.
• Provide regular project updates and help resolve requirement-related issues.

Required Skills

• 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in technology or business-transformation projects.
• Strong experience in requirements gathering, business-process analysis, and process mapping.
• Experience creating process flows using tools such as Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart, or similar platforms.
• Strong documentation skills, including BRDs, FRDs, user stories, use cases, functional specifications, and standard operating procedures.
• Experience working with both business and technical stakeholders.
• Good understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Experience supporting UAT, defect resolution, implementation, and process improvements.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work from the Houston office as required.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in the energy, oil and gas, utilities, power, commodities, or energy-trading domain.
• Understanding of front-, middle-, or back-office energy processes.
• Experience with ETRM, ERP, CRM, workflow, or enterprise transformation projects.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint, and Excel.