We are seeking an experienced
Senior Business Analyst / Agile Project Coordinator with approximately 8 years
of professional experience supporting complex, cross-functional initiatives.
This role combines business analysis, Agile/Scrum coordination, project
delivery support, stakeholder engagement, requirements management, and process
improvement.
The ideal candidate will serve
as a bridge between business stakeholders, subject matter experts, technical
teams, content and publishing teams, and project leadership. The individual
will help translate business needs into actionable requirements, coordinate
Agile delivery activities, track dependencies and risks, and ensure work
progresses efficiently from requirements through implementation and release.
Experience supporting digital
publishing, content management, web platforms, document/content workflows, or
similar environments is highly desirable.
· Partner with business stakeholders, subject
matter experts, product owners, technical teams, and other partners to identify
and document business needs.
· Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions,
stakeholder interviews, workshops, and process discussions.
· Develop and maintain business requirements,
functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and
supporting documentation.
· Translate complex business needs into clear,
actionable requirements for technical and operational teams.
· Analyze current-state processes and recommend
improvements to workflows, systems, and business processes.
· Support requirements traceability from initial
business need through implementation, testing, and release.
· Identify requirement gaps, dependencies,
assumptions, and potential impacts across business and technical workstreams.
· Assist stakeholders with prioritizing
requirements and resolving competing business needs.
· Support Agile/Scrum delivery practices across
multidisciplinary teams.
· Coordinate and facilitate Agile ceremonies,
including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews,
and retrospectives.
· Work closely with Product Owners and team
members to maintain a well-defined and prioritized product backlog.
· Help ensure user stories contain sufficient
business context, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation before
development begins.
· Track sprint commitments, deliverables,
dependencies, impediments, and follow-up actions.
· Promote consistent Agile practices while
adapting processes appropriately to organizational and project needs.
· Support continuous improvement by identifying
opportunities to strengthen team workflows, communication, and delivery
practices.
· Coordinate activities across business,
technical, content, publishing, quality assurance, and other stakeholder
groups.
· Develop and maintain project schedules,
milestone plans, action-item trackers, dependency logs, risk and issue
registers, and status reports.
· Monitor deliverables and proactively identify
schedule risks, resource constraints, dependencies, and blockers.
· Coordinate meetings, document decisions, assign
and track action items, and follow up with responsible parties.
· Escalate risks, issues, and unresolved
dependencies to project leadership when appropriate.
· Assist with release planning and readiness
activities.
· Support communication between business and
technical teams to ensure common understanding of priorities, requirements,
timelines, and expected outcomes.
· Prepare concise project status updates,
dashboards, meeting materials, and leadership briefings as needed.
· Support business and technical processes
associated with digital content, publishing, web content, documents, or content
management workflows.
· Analyze content lifecycle processes from
creation and review through approval, publication, maintenance, and archival.
· Coordinate with content owners, subject matter
experts, technical teams, and other stakeholders to support timely publication
and release activities.
· Help identify opportunities to improve
content-related workflows through process standardization, automation, and
technology.
· Support quality assurance and validation
activities to ensure delivered functionality meets documented business
requirements and acceptance criteria.
· Bachelor's degree in Business Administration,
Information Systems, Computer Science, Communications, Project Management, or a
related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
· Approximately 8 years of progressive experience
in business analysis, Agile project coordination, project management, product
delivery, or related roles.
· Demonstrated experience performing business
analysis and requirements management in complex, cross-functional environments.
· Strong working knowledge of Agile and Scrum
methodologies.
· Experience developing user stories, acceptance
criteria, business requirements, process flows, and other functional
documentation.
· Experience coordinating Agile ceremonies and
supporting sprint-based delivery.
· Demonstrated ability to manage multiple
priorities, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder expectations.
· Strong facilitation skills and experience
working with both business and technical stakeholders.
· Excellent written and verbal communication
skills.
· Strong organizational, analytical,
problem-solving, and documentation skills.
· Ability to operate effectively in environments
involving multiple teams, stakeholders, and competing priorities.
· Experience supporting digital publishing,
content management, web platforms, document management, or content lifecycle
processes.
· Experience working with enterprise content
management or content management systems.
· Experience with Agile/project management and
collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Teams,
SharePoint, or similar platforms.
· Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing
(UAT), release readiness, and production implementation activities.
· Familiarity with accessibility, quality
assurance, governance, or compliance considerations associated with digital
content.
· Experience creating dashboards, project metrics,
sprint reports, and executive-level status reporting.
· Agile/Scrum certification such as CSM, PSM,
SAFe, PMI-ACP, or equivalent is preferred.