Business Analyst - Requirements Engineering

CAI • Trenton, NJ

10d • $64 - $74 • Hybrid

About The Position

CAI is hiring a Business Analyst – Requirements Engineering for a full-time, long-term contract opportunity supporting the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, including its HR Modernization initiative. The role is hybrid, with three days per week onsite in Trenton, New Jersey. The analyst will lead HR process analysis and produce build-ready workflow and form specifications in a structured, machine-ingestible format that feeds into the program’s code generation toolchain. Only local candidates whose work authorization does not require sponsorship now or in the future will be considered.

The role involves analyzing current HR processes and documenting future workflows; facilitating subject matter expert sessions; converting business requirements into specifications, workflows, forms, and acceptance criteria; and maintaining traceability across requirements, specifications, stories, builds, and tests. The analyst will work with developers, architects, QA, the Application Manager, HR business owners, the Project Manager, and delivery leads to clarify requirements, support delivery, and verify generated output against specifications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• At least 5 years of experience in business analysis or requirements engineering.
• Demonstrated experience in HR process analysis and workflow and form specification.
• Experience facilitating subject matter expert sessions.
• Ability to break business requirements into build-ready written specifications with acceptance criteria and traceability.
• Experience maintaining a requirements traceability matrix across a large requirement set.
• Experience writing structured markdown or a comparable machine-ingestible specification format rather than prose narrative.
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Excel, or similar requirements management tools.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills with close attention to detail.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Work authorization that does not require sponsorship now or in the future.
• Local candidate; the position is based in Trenton, New Jersey, with three days per week onsite.

Nice To Haves

• Human resources or payroll domain experience.
• Public sector requirements work with limited subject matter expert availability.
• Prior work feeding specifications into a code generation toolchain.
• CBAP, PMI-PBA, or related business analysis certification.
• Experience supporting State of New Jersey agencies.
• Experience within Human Services, Child Welfare, Public Health, or Social Services programs.

Responsibilities

• Analyze current-state HR processes, including recruitment, position management, onboarding, personnel actions, and compliance workflows.
• Document future-state workflows, identifying manual steps, pain points, and automation opportunities.
• Validate process models with HR business owners and the Application Manager before converting them into specifications.
• Plan and lead subject matter expert sessions to capture, validate, and refine business requirements.
• Prepare agendas, pre-drafted specifications, and targeted questions to make effective use of limited subject matter expert time.
• Record decisions, open items, and follow-ups, and drive them to closure.
• Translate business requirements into build-ready specifications for workflows, forms, field validations, routing, approvals, and notifications.
• Write clear, testable acceptance criteria for every requirement.
• Write specifications in structured markdown or a comparable machine-ingestible format using program templates rather than prose narrative.
• Maintain specifications under version control and manage revisions as requirements change.
• Maintain the requirements traceability matrix across requirements, specifications, stories, builds, and tests.
• Enforce unique requirement IDs, eliminate duplicates, and keep requirement-set formatting consistent.
• Report traceability coverage and gaps to the Project Manager and delivery leads.
• Work with developers, architects, and QA to clarify specifications during build.
• Support backlog refinement and story readiness in Jira or similar tools.
• Review generated output against specifications to confirm the system behaves as intended.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Access to a 401k retirement account
• May be entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior