Business Analyst IT L3

Description
We are looking for an experienced Sr. Business Analyst to support key business initiatives in Southern California. This is a Long-term Contract position requiring a strong partner who can translate operational needs into clear requirements, guide cross-functional discussions, and help teams move from analysis through validation and readiness. The role is onsite four days each week and is well suited for someone who thrives in a structured, fast-moving environment while communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Partner with business teams and project stakeholders to define objectives, clarify scope, and capture detailed needs through interviews, workshops, observation, and document analysis. Produce well-organized analysis deliverables such as current and future workflow documentation, process diagrams, business rules, decision records, and supporting narratives that guide solution design. Convert business priorities into actionable artifacts including epics, features, user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria to support delivery teams and testing efforts.

Maintain end-to-end visibility of requirements by tracking changes, documenting impacts, and ensuring alignment from initial business goals through build, validation, and final acceptance. Lead functional discussions across multiple stakeholder groups, resolve ambiguity, surface risks, and help drive timely decisions on priorities, dependencies, and tradeoffs. Analyze process, data, reporting, interface, control, privacy, and security needs to ensure proposed solutions support operational and compliance expectations.

Support testing and business acceptance activities by preparing test scenarios, reviewing coverage, assisting with defect analysis, and confirming expected outcomes with stakeholders. Contribute to implementation readiness through training input, operating procedure documentation, knowledge transfer materials, cutover support, and status reporting for leadership. Represent assigned business domains in cross-functional planning, design reviews, readiness meetings, and issue management discussions to keep workstreams aligned.

Requirements
Proven experience as a business analyst supporting complex IT or business transformation initiatives in a structured enterprise environment. Strong ability to gather, organize, and document functional, non-functional, data, reporting, integration, compliance, and security requirements. Demonstrated skill in facilitating workshops, stakeholder meetings, and decision-making sessions with both business and technical participants. Experience creating process maps, swimlane diagrams, traceability records, user stories, use cases, and other formal analysis documentation.

Solid written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex topics in practical, audience-appropriate language. Ability to manage competing priorities, evaluate impacts of requirement changes, and remain effective in a fast-paced onsite setting. Familiarity with operational areas such as finance, compliance, vendors, reporting, quality, training, or administrative business processes is preferred. Experience supporting testing, readiness planning, and business acceptance activities is highly desirable. Technology Doesn't Change the World, People Do.

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