| Location | IN |
| Salary | $82,560–$87,720 Per Year |
Req Id: 44674
Job Title: Salesforce Business Analyst
City: REMOTE
Job Description:
Job Summary
The Senior Salesforce Business Analyst serves as a key liaison between university business partners and technical teams responsible for Salesforce and related enterprise solutions. This position develops a broad understanding of business objectives, processes, stakeholder needs, data requirements, and existing system capabilities and translates those needs into clearly defined business and functional requirements that enable effective technology solutions. The Senior Salesforce Business Analyst works with stakeholders to analyze complex business problems and opportunities, facilitate discovery and requirements sessions, document current- and future-state processes, identify gaps, evaluate solution alternatives, develop user stories and acceptance criteria, and support solution design and implementation. The position provides guidance regarding Salesforce capabilities and helps business partners distinguish business requirements from proposed technical solutions to ensure that solutions align with university priorities, enterprise architecture, data governance, security, usability, and long-term maintainability. This position participates in and may lead business analysis activities for projects and product enhancements throughout the solution lifecycle, including discovery, requirements definition, prioritization, solution validation, testing, implementation, and post-implementation evaluation.
The Senior Salesforce Business Analyst partners closely with product owners, Salesforce administrators, architects, developers, integration teams, data teams, project managers, and university stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood, traceable, testable, and successfully delivered. As a senior professional contributor, this position independently manages complex assignments, facilitates decision-making among diverse stakeholder groups, identifies risks and dependencies, recommends and makes moderate to significant improvements to business processes and Salesforce capabilities, and may coach or review the work of less experienced professionals.
What Were Looking For
Education and Experience Required:
Demonstrated experience:
Preferred
Skills Needed
Advanced business analysis and requirements-management skills
Ability to:
distinguish a business requirement from a proposed technical solution and guide stakeholders toward clearly defining the underlying business need
translate business objectives and processes into clear, actionable, and testable requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
manage multiple priorities and assignments with limited supervision
identify assumptions, dependencies, constraints, risks, and gaps and communicate their potential impacts
work effectively as part of a high-performing cross-functional team
adapt to changing business priorities and technology capabilities while maintaining focus on customer and organizational outcomes
perform gap analysis and develop practical solution alternatives and recommendations
evaluate solution alternatives based on business value, feasibility, risk, usability, maintainability, dependencies, and organizational impact
create clear process documentation, diagrams, requirements, presentations, decision documentation, and other business-analysis artifacts
Strong:
business-process analysis skills, including the ability to document and evaluate current- and future-state processes
professional judgment, integrity, accountability, collaboration, and commitment to continuous improvement Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical professionals, operational staff, managers, and senior stakeholders
stakeholder-management and influencing skills, including the ability to facilitate resolution when stakeholder priorities or requirements conflict
facilitation skills and demonstrated ability to lead requirements workshops, discovery sessions, process reviews, and stakeholder discussions
Working knowledge of Salesforce CRM concepts, functionality, data structures, security concepts, automation, reporting, and integration patterns sufficient to effectively partner with Salesforce technical professionals
Demonstrated:
analytical, critical-thinking, problem-solving, and decision-support capabilities
ability to independently analyze complex business problems involving multiple processes, systems, stakeholder groups, and organizational dependencies
Preferred
Knowledge of:
Salesforce platform capabilities and limitations across CRM-related products
Agile business analysis practices, backlog management, user-story development, and refinement
data governance, data quality, privacy, security, and stewardship principles
Experience with:
process-modeling techniques and tools
dataflow, data-mapping, or integration-requirement analysis
defining reporting, analytics, and key performance indicator requirements
performing change-impact analysis and supporting organizational change and user adoption
mentoring or reviewing the work of junior analysts
Additional Information
Career Stream
Professional 3
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The anticipated annual salary range for this position is $82,560 to $87,720 annually commensurate with the candidate's education and experience. The final salary offer will be determined based on a variety of factors, including equity, available budget, educational background, and relevant experience.
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Posting Start Date: 10/20/26