IT Business Analyst

MSP • Jersey City, NJ

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Genesis10 is seeking an IT Business Analyst for a contract position with a Global Financial Institution in Jersey City, NJ. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity focused on improving backlog management, sprint planning, and prioritization across multiple workstreams. The role aims to enhance requirement gathering, documentation, and stakeholder communication to promote Agile/Scrum best practices and manage dependencies across technical teams like ETL, Reporting, and Data Architecture.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Experience facilitating sprint ceremonies and backlog management
• Ability to identify and remove delivery blockers
• Strong sprint planning, estimation, and tracking skills
• Experience with requirements gathering and stakeholder interviewing
• Skilled in writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Experience with process mapping and workflow analysis
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements
• Experience with risk, dependency, and issue management
• Strong organizational, prioritization, and project delivery management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication and ability to work with business, technology, and leadership teams
• Experience with Agile tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Proficiency with Microsoft Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint
• Strong ownership, accountability, and a proactive, delivery-focused mindset
• Problem-solving and continuous improvement orientation
• Knowledge of SQL

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of ETL and data integration processes
• Knowledge of SQL Server and database concepts
• Experience with reporting platforms and downstream data feeds
• Familiarity with production support, release management, and change governance

Responsibilities

• Improve backlog management, sprint planning, and prioritization across multiple workstreams
• Enhance requirement gathering, documentation, and stakeholder communication, reducing rework and delivery delays
• Drive Agile/Scrum best practices, ensuring consistent execution, tracking, and reporting of sprint commitments
• Support dependency management and coordination across ETL, Reporting, Data Architecture, and downstream application teams
• Improve visibility of project risks, impediments, and delivery milestones through effective governance and reporting
• Strengthen production change management, release planning, and operational readiness processes

Benefits

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed