Senior IT BA — API & Integrations Lead (Hybrid)

BC Forward; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

BCforward is seeking a Senior IT Business Analyst to join our Plano area team. The role focuses on Agile business analysis, complex system integrations, APIs, and order management to translate business needs into actionable requirements.

You will collaborate across product, architecture, development, QA, and business teams, lead requirements elicitation, ensure acceptance criteria, and support release readiness in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of Business Analysis experience supporting technology delivery initiatives.
• Proficiency with Agile practices including writing user stories, acceptance criteria, grooming, and daily standups using Jira or similar tools.
• Strong understanding of system integrations, APIs, data flows, and cross-application dependencies.
• Experience with REST/JSON and SOAP integrations and data mapping, preferably in order management domains.
• Proven ability to gather, analyze, document, and validate business and technical requirements and perform impact assessments across multiple applications.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment; proficiency with Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements elicitation, process analysis, and backlog refinement for Merchant capabilities and strategic initiatives.
• Translate business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical specifications.
• Analyze system interactions, data flows, APIs, and cross-application dependencies across upstream and downstream systems.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder discussions, and issue resolution across product, architecture, development, QA, and business teams.
• Perform impact assessments and coordinate requirements across multiple integrated applications, prioritizing order management use cases.
• Support delivery planning, testing strategy, release readiness, and operational improvements.
• Create process flows, data mappings, and integration diagrams to communicate end-to-end solutions.

Skills

Agile practices

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Jira

REST/SOAP APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

SQL

Job description

BCforward is seeking a Senior IT Business Analyst to join our Plano area team. The role focuses on Agile business analysis, complex system integrations, APIs, and order management to translate business needs into actionable requirements.

You will collaborate across product, architecture, development, QA, and business teams, lead requirements elicitation, ensure acceptance criteria, and support release readiness in a fast-paced environment.