Senior Business Analyst

Intellectt Inc is seeking a Senior Business Analyst with deep expertise in XML and semantic markup to support the evaluation, governance, and evolution of markup standards. This critical role involves collaborating across business strategy, content architecture, and technical standards to enhance non-book content and modular publishing within the education and training market.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate, maintain, and evolve XML based semantic markup standards, with a focus on non book and modular content
• Own and define the governance and update model for markup standards, including:
• How changes are proposed, reviewed, approved, versioned, and communicated
• How the model is sustained and evolved over time
• Serve as a subject matter expert for XML schema design and semantic structures
• Define and support new use case extensions (e.g., structured case study boxes or new modular components), including:
• Clarifying semantic intent
• Providing example XML patterns
• Assessing schema and workflow impacts
• Ensure markup standards support:
• Modular content architectures
• Reuse and component based publishing
• Multi channel and multi product delivery
• Translate abstract or emerging business needs into clear, enforceable technical standards
• Collaborate with editorial, product, engineering, and external partners to resolve semantic, structural, and governance issues
• Produce clear, durable documentation, including:
• Markup standards and schemas
• Governance and decision guidelines
• Example XML illustrating “what good looks like”

Requirements:

• 3–5+ years of hands on experience with XML, including:
• Defining, managing, or evolving XML schemas
• Owning or supporting semantic markup structures
• Strong working knowledge of XML BITS 2.0
• Proven experience supporting non book content and/or modular content
• Demonstrated experience evaluating and evolving semantic markup models in complex environments
• Strong understanding of modular content architectures, reuse strategies, and component based publishing
• Ability to translate conceptual business requirements into concrete, technically enforceable standards
• Excellent documentation, communication, and stakeholder facilitation skills
• Strong, foundational understanding of XML itself, including semantic modeling, element/attribute design, schema constraints, and governance
• QTI experience (strong plus)
• Working knowledge of:
• XSLT (supporting skill)
• XLIFF
• Familiarity with schema aware XML editors (e.g., Oxygen or similar)
• Experience in the education or training market
• Exposure to JSON or related formats is a plus, but XML is the primary focus