Technical Business Analyst

About the Job
As a Technical Business Analyst, you will help translate business needs into clear, actionable technology solutions. You will develop expertise within a specific business area while expanding your understanding of the related processes, systems, and domains that influence business outcomes.
Working as part of a cross-functional Agile team, you will collaborate with product managers, engineers, designers, senior business analysts, and subject matter experts. You will analyze business processes, gather requirements, develop user stories, and help deliver technology solutions that create measurable business value.
What You'll Do

• Build expertise in an assigned business area or domain while developing an understanding of related business processes and technology needs.
• Analyze business information and data to develop recommendations in partnership with senior business analysts and other stakeholders.
• Assess and document current-state processes, future-state requirements, and gaps across moderately complex business areas.
• Gather, analyze, and document fact-based business and technical requirements across multiple domains.
• Translate business needs into clear user stories, features, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation.
• Independently develop user stories and features of medium complexity while contributing to more complex initiatives.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, designers, and subject matter experts throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Support the development, coordination, and review of test plans for medium and large technology initiatives.
• Partner with business stakeholders to support testing, resolve issues, and obtain appropriate business sign-off.
• Apply project management practices to organize work, manage dependencies, and advance initiatives toward completion.
• Communicate recommendations clearly and help stakeholders navigate competing priorities, conflicts, and decisions.

What You'll Bring to the Role

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Two to four years of professional experience, including at least two years working in a business analyst role.
• Experience gathering and documenting business, functional, and technical requirements.
• Experience translating business needs into user stories, features, acceptance criteria, or process documentation.
• Familiarity with current-state, future-state, and gap-analysis methods.
• Experience working in Agile and Scrum development environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-support capabilities.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.
• Ability to build productive relationships and influence outcomes across cross-functional teams.
• Experience applying project management practices to organize and advance work.
• Relevant certifications in business analysis, Agile practices, Scrum, or project management are preferred.

Skills You Have

• Analytical Thinking: Organizes and evaluates information to identify key issues, analyze data, solve problems, and improve processes.
• User Story: Translates business requirements into clear user stories, technical details, and testable use cases for business and technical teams.
• Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality: Identifies the underlying causes of issues and uses data, risk analysis, and sound judgment to recommend solutions.
• Cross-Functional Partnering & Planning: Coordinates and collaborates with teams across different functions to plan work and achieve shared goals.
• Stakeholder Relationship: Identifies stakeholder needs, manages expectations, builds relationships, and supports effective engagement and decision-making.
• Process Mindset: Evaluates workflows, defines processes and success measures, and identifies opportunities to simplify or improve how work is completed.
• Technical & Digital Acumen: Uses knowledge of digital products and technologies to solve problems, accomplish goals, and adapt to emerging tools and systems.

#LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$81,280.00
Pay Range - End:
$121,920.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$89,440.00 USD - $134,160.00 USD
Structure 115:
$93,440.00 USD - $140,160.00 USD
We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you're living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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Skills
Wireframing, Process Mapping, Business Analysis, User Research, Industry Benchmarking, Storytelling, Atlassian JIRA, Structured Query Language (SQL), Product Demonstrations, Adobe Analytics, Gap Assessments, Test Planning, Continual Improvement Process, Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (PBI), Requirements Gathering
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• Flexible work schedules
• Concierge service
• Comprehensive benefits
• Employee resource groups