Wellness R&D Business Analyst — Cross-Team Impact

Talentify; Springfield (MA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Talentify seeks an experienced Business Analyst to join our Wellness program in Research & Development. This role partners with stakeholders, product managers, architects, developers, quality engineers, and delivery leaders to define and deliver solutions that drive business value and improve customer experiences.

The Business Analyst bridges business and technology teams, guiding objective setting, requirement elicitation, and acceptance criteria across the SDLC.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, or related experience.
• Experience gathering, documenting, and managing business and system requirements.
• Experience producing requirements in BDD format.
• Experience developing and running SQL queries.
• Experience working in Agile environments using Scrum and/or Kanban methodologies.
• Experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, use cases, and functional requirements documentation.
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation, and traceability activities for medium- to large-scale initiatives.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand business objectives, challenges, opportunities, success metrics, and operational impacts.
• Translate business needs into clear, actionable business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Analyze current-state and future-state business processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce risk, and increase business value.
• Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, backlog refinement sessions, stakeholder reviews, and requirements walkthroughs.
• Perform business, process, system, data, gap, and impact analysis to support solution design, prioritization, and delivery decisions.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Scrum Teams, Solution Architects, business SMEs, vendors, and technology leaders to define scope and align delivery expectations.
• Support all phases of delivery, including planning, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-production support.
• Participate in test planning, user acceptance testing, defect triage, and solution validation to confirm business outcomes are met.
• Drive discussions, influence decisions, assess risks and impacts, and negotiate priorities across competing stakeholder needs.
• Guide and advise less-experienced Business Analysts and contribute to continuous improvement of business analysis practices.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

User story development

Process mapping

Business process analysis

Stakeholder facilitation

Data analysis

Risk assessment

Solution validation

Agile delivery

Executive communication

Influence & negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Confluence

SharePoint

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Talentify seeks an experienced Business Analyst to join our Wellness program in Research & Development. This role partners with stakeholders, product managers, architects, developers, quality engineers, and delivery leaders to define and deliver solutions that drive business value and improve customer experiences.

The Business Analyst bridges business and technology teams, guiding objective setting, requirement elicitation, and acceptance criteria across the SDLC.