Sr. Business Analyst

You will work across the full software development lifecycle, partnering with business leaders, Product Owners, operations, compliance, architecture, development, QA, and delivery teams to ensure technology solutions achieve business objectives while addressing regulatory, security, risk, data, and operational requirements. You will bring structure to complex problems, challenge assumptions when appropriate, identify dependencies and downstream impacts, and turn business requirements into high quality functional specifications that enable successful design, development, testing, and implementation.

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Sr. Business Analyst for a 6+ month contract to hire role in Midvale, UT. The Senior Business Analyst will join our team supporting strategic application development and transformation initiatives within the banking and financial services industry. In this role, you will serve as a trusted liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams, helping translate complex business challenges into clear, actionable solutions. You will work across the full software development lifecycle, partnering with business leaders, Product Owners, operations, compliance, architecture, development, QA, and delivery teams to ensure technology solutions achieve business objectives while addressing regulatory, security, risk, data, and operational requirements. The ideal candidate is an experienced Business Analyst who is naturally curious, comfortable asking challenging questions, and skilled at uncovering both stated and unstated business needs. You will bring structure to complex problems, challenge assumptions when appropriate, identify dependencies and downstream impacts, and turn business requirements into high quality functional specifications that enable successful design, development, testing, and implementation. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of business strategy, banking operations, and technology delivery and wants to contribute to meaningful modernization initiatives in a highly collaborative consulting environment. This role may be completed remotely however the preferred location is onsite in Salt Lake City, UT. Your future duties and responsibilities How You'll Make an Impact . Lead requirements discovery and elicitation through stakeholder interviews, workshops, process walkthroughs, and analysis sessions to understand business objectives, challenges, dependencies, constraints, and desired outcomes. . Analyze and document current state and future state business processes, identify functional and process gaps, and recommend opportunities for simplification, automation, and operational improvement. . Translate complex business needs into clear, comprehensive, and testable business, functional, and non functional requirements. . Develop high quality project artifacts, including BRDs, FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, process flows, data mappings, and Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs). . Serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams, resolving requirement ambiguities, facilitating decisions, managing competing priorities, and driving stakeholder alignment. . Partner closely with architects, developers, QA engineers, Product Owners, and Project Managers throughout the SDLC to ensure business requirements are accurately reflected in solution designs and delivered functionality. . Support both Agile and Waterfall delivery models, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, requirements walkthroughs, dependency analysis, change management, and ongoing requirements clarification. . Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by developing business scenarios and acceptance criteria, maintaining requirements traceability, analyzing defects, coordinating business validation, and supporting production readiness activities. . Analyze application interfaces, integrations, data flows, and downstream dependencies to identify potential impacts and ensure end to end solution integrity. . Ensure solutions appropriately consider banking operations, regulatory compliance, security, audit, risk, data, and operational controls. . Proactively identify requirements gaps, delivery risks, dependencies, and potential downstream impacts, working with stakeholders to drive issues to resolution. . Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to strengthen business analysis practices, documentation standards, and delivery processes. Required qualifications to be successful in this role What You'll Bring . Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or a related discipline. . 7+ years of Business Analysis or Business Systems Analysis experience, including at least 3 years within banking, financial services, payments, lending, credit unions, or fintech. . Demonstrated expertise in requirements elicitation and analysis, including stakeholder interviews, discovery workshops, process analysis, gap analysis, and translating complex business needs into actionable requirements. . Strong experience developing BRDs, FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, process flows, data mappings, and requirements traceability documentation. . Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and experience working within Agile/Scrum and Waterfall delivery environments. . Experience supporting delivery activities including backlog refinement, sprint planning, solution design, testing, UAT, implementation, and change management. . Working knowledge of APIs, web services, system integrations, interfaces, data flows, databases, and data mapping, with the ability to collaborate effectively with architects and development teams. . Strong understanding of banking operations, processes, and controls. . Experience working with delivery and documentation tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart, or comparable platforms. . Excellent analytical, critical thinking, facilitation, problem solving, written, and verbal communication skills. . Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders, challenge assumptions constructively, identify gaps, facilitate decisions, and drive requirements through closure. . Ability to work effectively across business and technology teams while managing multiple priorities in a fast paced environment. Preferred Qualifications . Experience with one or more banking domains such as digital banking, deposits, lending, payments, treasury management, commercial banking, or core banking platforms. . Experience supporting banking modernization or digital transformation initiatives. . Exposure to cloud based applications and cloud transformation programs. . Experience working with complex enterprise integrations and data intensive applications. . Familiarity with regulatory, compliance, audit, security, and risk considerations within financial services. . Consulting experience working directly with client stakeholders and cross functional delivery teams.