Business Analyst

Chicago, Illinois 60018 Posted October 14th, 2026

Job Type: Full Time

Job Category: IT

Job Description

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Richmond, VA/Kennesaw, GA/Chicago, IL

Full Time

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Primary Skill: Business Analyst

Secondary: JIRA, Jenkins, Github.

Experience: Minimum 7 years

Roles & Responsibilities

The Business Analyst will act as a bridge between business stakeholders, product owners, and technology teams to translate business requirements into well-defined and actionable user stories. The ideal candidate should possess strong techno-functional expertise, excellent requirement-gathering skills, and hands-on experience in Agile delivery practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand, analyze, and document business requirements.

• Create and refine user stories, define acceptance criteria, and support story point estimation.

• Break down large business requirements into manageable epics, features, and user stories.

• Facilitate discussions between business, development, QA, architecture, and product teams to ensure alignment.

• Analyze business processes and identify opportunities for process improvement and automation.

• Support sprint planning, backlog grooming, UAT, and release activities.

• Ensure requirements are clearly communicated and understood across all stakeholder groups.

• Act as the single point of contact for requirement clarification and functional guidance.

Required Skills

• Strong Business Analysis fundamentals including requirement elicitation, process mapping, and stakeholder management.

• Proven experience in user story creation, story decomposition, acceptance criteria definition, and Agile methodologies.

• Ability to facilitate workshops, requirement sessions, and stakeholder discussions.

• Strong techno-functional understanding to effectively interact with development and architecture teams.

• Experience with Agile/Scrum tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.

• Excellent communication, documentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• Demonstrated ability to bridge communication gaps between business and technology teams and drive consensus among stakeholders.

Preferred

• Experience in Banking, Financial Services, Wealth Management, or Enterprise Digital Transformation programs.

• Knowledge of UI- API integrations, Microservices, and modern application architectures is an added advantage.

Required Skills

Data Analyst