Senior Business Analyst - LRS

LRS has prospered for over 30 years because our corporate philosophy embraces honest, ethical and hard-working people. If that describes your approach to IT consulting, we need to talk! LRS Consulting Services is seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a remote contract opportunity with our research client in Chicago, IL!

LRS Consulting Services has been delivering the highest quality consultants to our clients since 1979. We've built a solid reputation for dealing with our clients and our consultants with honesty, integrity, and respect. We work hard every day to maintain that reputation, and we're very interested in candidates who can help us. If you're that candidate, this opportunity is made for you!

Responsibilities:

• Work with IT, research teams, business teams, and 3rd party stakeholders to identify and document requirements, and think critically about what will make it successful.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders to understand business processes, objectives, and challenges.
• Leverage product development expertise to contribute innovative ideas and solutions.
• Write user stories that effectively communicate project requirements and that are easily consumed by software development teams.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings and provide project status reporting.
• Take a hands-on approach to quality assurance to ensure successful implementation of solutions. Assist with testing scenarios and validate results.
• Create deliverables such as process flows and use case diagrams to effectively communicate design strategies.
• Work independently and manage multiple priorities effectively
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in IT, statistics, computer science, mathematics, information management, or a related field preferred
• Minimum 4 years' experience in Business Analysis, preferably in a product development environment. With at least 6 years' experience in relevant IT application environments.
• Demonstrated experience defining and documenting business requirements for large, scalable enterprise application projects (preferably from the ground up).
• Experience in Agile methodologies, including preferably contributing to: sprint planning, sprint grooming, review, demo, stand-up, and retrospective sessions.
• Excellence in writing articulate user stories and acceptance criteria effectively.
• Experience collaborating across all phases of product, software, and testing lifecycles.
• Proficiency in Salesforce is strongly preferred, along with a good understanding of Salesforce data models.
• Proficiency in whiteboarding/workflow tools is a plus (such as Miro, Figma, Balsamiq, Visio, etc.)
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CBAP, PMI-PBA) are desirable but not required.
• Strong investigative, analytical skills, and interpersonal skills
• Third-party candidates will not be considered.
• Candidates must have permanent authorization to work in the US without sponsorship.

LRS is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants for employment will receive consideration without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, gender identity, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship status or protected veteran status.