Senior Business Systems Analyst – Requirements & SDLC

KellyMitchell Group; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Employee-Owned ESOP

401K

Job summary

KellyMitchell Group in St. Louis, MO seeks a hands-on Business Systems Analyst to translate business needs into clear technical requirements and support SDLC initiatives. You will elicit, document, and write user stories and acceptance criteria, collaborating closely with development teams.

Hybrid work environment with opportunities to influence processes, optimize IT systems, and apply AI tools for analysis. Requires 5+ years of experience and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst or in a related role.
• Strong hands-on experience analyzing IT systems and complex business processes.
• Excellent requirements elicitation, stakeholder interviewing, communication, and facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated experience writing high-quality user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience gathering and documenting business, functional, and system requirements.
• Experience creating business process flows and workflow diagrams.
• Ability to translate complex business processes and needs into clear, testable system requirements.
• Strong understanding of the SDLC and how requirements progress from discovery through development, testing, and delivery.
• Experience working directly with engineering or development teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with requirements documentation and issue-tracking tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with business stakeholders to understand business needs, challenges, and desired outcomes.
• Lead requirements elicitation sessions, workshops, and stakeholder reviews to uncover detailed business and system requirements.
• Translate business needs into clear, well-written user stories, acceptance criteria, functional requirements, and system requirements.
• Create and maintain business process flows, workflows, and requirements documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
• Review and analyze existing IT systems, operations, and current-state processes to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluate how applications, systems, and business processes interact and impact one another.
• Support solution design by recommending system improvements and process enhancements based on business and process analysis.
• Serve as a liaison between business users and engineering/development teams.
• Collaborate closely with developers, QA, Product Owners, and other technology teams throughout the SDLC.
• Clarify requirements and answer questions during development and testing.
• Identify, document, report, and track system issues through resolution.
• Support validation and verification activities to ensure solutions meet documented business needs and objectives.

Skills

Requirements Elicitation

Stakeholder Interviewing

User Story Development

SDLC Knowledge

Communication Skills

Business Process Analysis

Requirements Documentation

IT Systems Analysis

Collaboration with Eng/Dev Teams

Analytical Thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/IS/CS

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

KellyMitchell Group in St. Louis, MO seeks a hands-on Business Systems Analyst to translate business needs into clear technical requirements and support SDLC initiatives. You will elicit, document, and write user stories and acceptance criteria, collaborating closely with development teams.

Hybrid work environment with opportunities to influence processes, optimize IT systems, and apply AI tools for analysis. Requires 5+ years of experience and strong communication skills.