Senior IT Business Analyst - Agile Leader, Data & Automation

Alliant; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Alliant is seeking a senior business analyst and project manager to drive complex technology initiatives, coordinate across SES, Alliant teams, clients, vendors, and partners, and mentor junior team members.

You will partner with business liaisons on requirements, backlog readiness, and release planning, while supporting Agile delivery. You will work with leaders who retain overall delivery accountability and leverage data analytics to guide decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 7+ years business analysis, project management, or related work experience.
• Experience with project management and Agile delivery tools to plan, track, and coordinate projects and releases.
• Insurance industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis, stakeholder discovery, and documentation of requirements, functional specs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Analyze and improve business processes for automation, efficiency, and better user adoption.
• Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders on backlog reviews and prioritization.
• Facilitate release prioritization and scope discussions using priorities, estimates, dependencies, and capacity.
• Coordinate requirements readiness with BAs, Engineering, and QA before sprint planning.
• Maintain project schedules, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and action items.
• Coordinate initiatives across SES, Alliant, clients, vendors, and partners.
• Support Agile delivery with backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Coordinate UAT, validation, release planning, and post-release follow-up.
• Mentor junior analysts and promote standardized requirements practices.

Skills

BA/PM experience

project management tools

Agile delivery

Insurance industry experience

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

7+ years business analysis / PM experience

Job description

Alliant is seeking a senior business analyst and project manager to drive complex technology initiatives, coordinate across SES, Alliant teams, clients, vendors, and partners, and mentor junior team members.

You will partner with business liaisons on requirements, backlog readiness, and release planning, while supporting Agile delivery. You will work with leaders who retain overall delivery accountability and leverage data analytics to guide decisions.