Senior Technical Business Analyst

Vertex Elite LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertex Elite LLC in Houston, TX seeks a Technical Business Analyst to translate business needs into clear requirements and drive technical delivery. You will collaborate with stakeholders, product owners and developers to shape epics, features and stories, while ensuring alignment with business goals.

The role emphasizes backlog grooming, sprint planning, and documenting API integrations, data requirements, and acceptance criteria within an AWS/Azure DevOps environment.

Qualifications

• Translate business requirements into clear, detailed user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Gather and analyze business and technical requirements with stakeholders.
• Manage epics, features, and user stories in Azure DevOps.
• Groom and refine the product backlog with developers and stakeholders.
• Provide developers with technical details, data requirements, and acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Groom backlog and refine priorities with developers and stakeholders.
• Coordinate with product owners, developers, and tech teams to clarify requirements.
• Analyze capacity, timelines, and dependencies to support planning.
• Document API requirements, integrations, and data exchanges.
• Understand APIs, REST services, JSON, and authentication for integration.

Skills

Backlog management

Stakeholder collaboration

Requirements analysis

Sprint planning

Acceptance criteria

Data requirements

API concepts

Cloud fundamentals

Tools

Azure DevOps

AWS

Job description

Vertex Elite is currently seeking a qualified Technical Business Analyst to join our team.

If you or someone in your network might be a fit, please feel free to reach out for more details or share an updated resume.

Work Authorization: USC or Any valid US work authorization

Job Type: W2 Contract with Vertex Elite LLC

Location: Houston, Texas

Roles and Responsibilities

• Work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, developers, and technical teams to gather and analyze business and technical requirements.
• Translate business requirements into clear, detailed, and actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Use Azure DevOps (ADO) to create, manage, prioritize, and track epics, features, user stories, tasks, and defects.
• Groom and refine the product backlog with developers and stakeholders.
• Provide developers with sufficient technical details, functional requirements, process flows, data requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with development teams to clarify requirements and resolve questions during implementation.
• Support capacity planning, sprint forecasting, workload estimation, and resource allocation.
• Analyze team capacity, dependencies, delivery timelines, and competing priorities.
• Understand APIs, REST services, JSON, request/response structures, authentication, and system integrations.
• Work with technical teams to document API requirements, integration flows, and data exchanges.
• Develop process flows, functional specifications, business requirements documents, and technical requirement documents.
• Gain a working understanding of AWS services and cloud-based application environments.
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to understand AWS integrations, application dependencies, and cloud workflows.
• Identify risks, dependencies, assumptions, and gaps in requirements.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing, test-case reviews, defect tracking, and business validation.
• Ensure requirements and delivered functionality align with business objectives and stakeholder expectations.
• Maintain project documentation, traceability, and delivery status in Azure DevOps.

With Best Regards,