Business Analyst – IT

eClerx • Saint Louis, MO

3d • Onsite

About The Position

As an IT Business Analyst, you will gather, analyze, validate, document, and maintain business and cross-system functional requirements. You will assess business requests for feasibility, act as the primary liaison between IT, Product Owners, and the Renter Solutions team, and collaborate with the Amazon Connect Engineering team to research, validate, and provide data that supports business decisions and answers key business questions.

Requirements

• Proven track record of taking initiative and effectively driving plans to completion.
• Ability to effectively manage time and multitask in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong relationship-building skills across IT and business teams.
• Experience serving as the primary liaison between end users and technical teams.
• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
• Comfortable preparing and delivering both informal and formal presentations to team members, departments, other IT teams, senior leadership, and business partners.
• Strong prioritization and demand-management skills, with the ability to balance competing stakeholder requests against team capacity.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret data and communicate findings effectively.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems (CIS), Management Information Systems (MIS), or a related field preferred.
• Must be able to work a schedule aligned with U.S. Central Standard Time (CST) core business hours.
• Three to five years of experience as a Business Analyst, including participation on project teams coordinating activities across project phases, preferably in an IT environment.
• Experience writing technical documentation, including Functional Specification Documents (FSDs).
• Experience using Jira and Confluence for requirements management, project tracking, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and facilitate meetings to define key capabilities and requirements that enable stakeholders to develop and execute business strategy.
• Lead the evaluation of business requests to determine feasibility; research and identify options; recommend solutions that best meet business needs.
• Serve as the primary interface between business partners and the IT team; deliver formal presentations to end users, stakeholders, and management.
• Partner with the Amazon Connect Engineering team to obtain data, validate reporting requirements, answer business questions, and support analysis efforts.
• Serve as Intake Manager for the team, owning the process for capturing, triaging, and prioritizing incoming project and enhancement requests from business and IT stakeholders.
• Maintain a visible intake queue and backlog (for example, in Jira and Confluence), tracking status, ownership, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) from initial submission through handoff to delivery teams.
• Facilitate regular intake review and prioritization meetings with stakeholders and leadership to align on scope, urgency, and sequencing of new work.

What This Job Offers

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