🚨 SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST / LEAD BUSINESS ANALYST – LANSING, MI 🚨

Location: Lansing, MI
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite / Week
Employment Type: Contract / Direct Hire
Duration: 12–18 Months
Experience: 8+ Years
Certification: CBAP – Mandatory

🚨 LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY

Candidates must be local to the Lansing, Michigan area – within 90 miles – at the time of submission.

This requirement is NON-NEGOTIABLE.

Non-local candidates will not be considered.

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst / Lead Business Analyst to support enterprise technology initiatives in a highly collaborative Agile environment.

This is a Senior/Lead-level Business Analyst position, not a generic BA role. The ideal candidate must have substantial experience across the complete business-analysis lifecycle, including:

Discovery → Requirements → Process Modeling → Azure DevOps Backlog → UAT → Training/Readiness → Implementation

The successful candidate will work closely with Product Owners, business stakeholders, project leadership, developers, testers, and implementation teams to translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements and delivery-ready backlog items.

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis & Requirements

• Lead discovery sessions and requirements-gathering activities with business stakeholders.

• Analyze business needs and translate them into clear, actionable business and system requirements.

• Develop detailed business requirements documents (BRDs) and technical requirements documentation.

• Identify business rules, validation requirements, exceptions, dependencies, and operational impacts.

• Challenge unclear or incomplete requirements and facilitate stakeholder alignment.

• Maintain requirements traceability throughout the development and implementation lifecycle.

Process Modeling

• Develop current-state and future-state process maps.

• Create workflow diagrams and business process documentation.

• Document business operating procedures, manual processes, workarounds, and exception-handling procedures.

• Identify process gaps and recommend opportunities for process improvement.

• Develop end-to-end business and system interaction diagrams.

Product Owner & Agile Delivery

• Partner with Product Owners to refine and maintain product backlogs.

• Translate requirements into Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks.

• Develop clear acceptance criteria and ensure stories are development-ready.

• Participate in backlog refinement and sprint planning activities.

• Support Product Owners in prioritization and business validation.

• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and delivery activities.

Azure DevOps

• Maintain and organize Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks within Azure DevOps.

• Manage and maintain Kanban and Sprint boards.

• Create and maintain Azure DevOps queries, dashboards, and work items.

• Maintain traceability between requirements, development, testing, and implementation.

• Monitor backlog readiness and support delivery teams with requirements clarification.

User Acceptance Testing

• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities with business stakeholders.

• Develop or support UAT strategies, scenarios, test cases, and business-validation plans.

• Coordinate end-to-end business-process testing.

• Track UAT execution, defects, test results, and acceptance decisions.

• Work with technical teams to clarify requirements and resolve UAT issues.

• Support business sign-off and release-readiness assessments.

Training & Organizational Readiness

• Support development of training plans and end-user training materials.

• Create job aids, quick-reference guides, process documentation, and operational procedures.

• Facilitate training and knowledge-transfer sessions.

• Support stakeholder communications and organizational readiness activities.

• Assist business teams during implementation and post-production adoption.

Documentation & Governance

• Create and maintain business and technical requirements documentation.

• Maintain process maps, project documentation, UAT artifacts, training materials, and reference documentation.

• Support project governance and delivery standards.

• Maintain documentation repositories, knowledge bases, and project wikis.

• Ensure requirements and project artifacts remain accurate and up to date.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience gathering requirements from users and business stakeholders.

• 6+ years of experience designing and documenting business and technical requirements.

• 4+ years of experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies and ceremonies.

• 3+ years of hands-on Azure DevOps experience managing:

  • Epics

  • Features

  • User Stories

  • Tasks

  • Kanban Boards

  • Sprint Boards

• Current CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) certification – REQUIRED.

• Strong business analysis and requirements-management experience.

• Strong stakeholder facilitation and communication skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Proven experience translating business needs into actionable technical requirements.

• Experience supporting enterprise technology implementations.

• Strong experience with UAT and business validation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Product Owners in Agile delivery environments.

• Experience developing UAT plans, scenarios, test cases, and business-validation strategies.

• Experience coordinating UAT execution and business sign-off.

• Experience creating training plans, training materials, job aids, and operational-readiness documentation.

• Experience documenting current-state and future-state business processes.

• Experience with process-modeling tools such as Bizagi.

• Experience supporting large-scale government, healthcare, financial services, or enterprise-system implementations.

• Experience documenting complex system integrations and data flows.

• Strong requirements traceability experience.

• Experience with enterprise Agile delivery frameworks.

Candidate Requirements

🚨 LOCAL TO LANSING, MI – WITHIN 90 MILES

Candidates must be within 90 miles of Lansing, Michigan at the time of submission.

• Hybrid – 3 days onsite per week in Lansing, MI

• Local candidates only

• Current location must be provided with submission

• CBAP certification is mandatory

• Candidate must meet the required years of experience

• Candidate must be able to verify employment history and credentials

• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills are required

Compensation & Duration

Salary: $100,000–$120,000 annually
Duration: 12–18 months
Work Schedule: Hybrid – 3 days onsite in Lansing, MI

Only qualified candidates meeting the mandatory CBAP and Lansing-area requirements will be considered.

🚨 IMPORTANT

LOCAL CANDIDATES WITHIN 90 MILES OF LANSING, MI ONLY

CBAP CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED

SENIOR/LEAD BUSINESS ANALYST EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED

NON-LOCAL OR NON-CBAP CANDIDATES WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

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