Sr. BA
Widenet Consulting
Bellevue, WA(remote)
Job Description:
Location: This is a remote position within the US only.
Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Business Analyst to partner closely with business stakeholders and Product Owners to drive strategic initiatives and deliver high-impact solutions. This role will play a critical part in translating business needs into actionable requirements, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with business stakeholders and Product Owners to gather, analyze, and document business and functional requirements
- Lead discovery sessions, workshops, and stakeholder interviews to define project scope and objectives
- Translate business needs into user stories, process flows, and detailed acceptance criteria
- Partner with Product Owners to manage and refine the product backlog, ensuring priorities align with business goals
- Act as a liaison between business teams and technical teams to ensure clear communication and successful delivery
- Analyze data and business processes to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization
- Support Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
- Validate solutions through testing support, UAT coordination, and stakeholder sign-off
- Ensure all deliverables meet quality standards and align with strategic objectives
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst
- Experience driving large projects for an enterprise-level company
- Proven experience working closely with Product Owners and cross-functional teams in Agile environments
- Strong expertise in requirements gathering, documentation, and process modeling
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in the insurance industry, knowledge of annuities operations, and experience with business rules.
- Familiarity with Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban)
- Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar collaboration platforms
- Certification such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, or equivalent
Key Competencies
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- Ability to influence without authority
- Adaptability in fast-paced, evolving environments
Pay Range: $68 to $70 per hour, depending upon experience.
Health & Medical Benefits, 401K, Employee Assistance Program, and Sick Time applicable by state.
About the Company
Widenet Consulting
Whether you are a candidate looking for a new opportunity or an organization looking for talent, when you work with WideNet Consulting, you can be confident that you will receive an unequaled experience. As a leading technology consulting and recruitment firm, WideNet has built an outstanding reputation of consistently bringing together professionals, who are the best in their field, with exceptional opportunities at the finest, most dynamic companies.
Our strengths:We understand the challenges of business and organization management. Our team has helped departments and companies identify specific challenges and solutions, then built road maps to a smoother business model.
We know technology project management and assist on projects at ANY point in the process.
We build our dream team of Clients & Candidates carefully and purposefully, and then interact with them intensely and often. The journey ends with the perfect fusion of our Client's business objectives and our Candidate's expertise working together in perfect harmony.
We use our proprietary recruiting strategy and process, WideScreen™ to match Candidate expertise to Client needs and culture, consistently exceeding expectations. We work to deliver the right person for the need AND the company.
We conduct business with honesty, integrity, and dedication. We do what we say we're going to do. We follow-up and follow through until the best candidate is matched to the right opportunity.
We are not a volume shop. We are completely focused on creating the best possible fit between our Client's business objectives and our Candidate's expertise, every time.
We help our Clients match their technology solutions with current staff configurations, then provide the tools, experience and resources to develop targeted Information Technology initiatives that improve productivity and enhance systems management.