Business Analyst - Retirement Systems

JSR Tech Consulting is recruiting for a contract-to-hire Business Analyst opportunity with a major investment firm. The role partners with product owners, architects, business users, and Agile teams to define requirements, write SAFe-aligned user stories, support planning and execution, and improve business processes for retirement systems.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Product Owners to gather and refine business and technical requirements
• Translate business needs into clear, concise user stories with acceptance criteria, maintaining a well-groomed product backlog
• Participate in PI (Program Increment) Planning
• Support the Agile team during iteration planning and execution, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Analyze and document business processes and workflows; identify areas for improvement
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and the technical team, ensuring a shared understanding of requirements and goals
• Assist in defining and validating solution features and capabilities during the development cycle

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Experience with defined contributions
• 3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Product Owner in an Agile environment
• Excellent analytical, communication, and facilitation skills
• preferably in business, engineering or related field
• Significant experience in U.S. retirement industry specifically around recordkeeping retirement plans operations and services is highly preferred
• or related experience in more than one financial services area including wealth management, asset management, investment management, payroll management and banking
• Experience writing Features and User Stories within a SAFe framework strongly preferred
• Proficient in tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar Agile project management tools is a nice to have