Senior IT Business Analyst III- SQL, Requirements Engineering & Systems Integration

This opportunity is ideal for an experienced Business Analyst or Business Systems Analyst who combines business process expertise with hands-on SQL, data analysis, and systems integration capabilities. Working alongside product managers, developers, QA engineers, and business stakeholders, you will help shape solutions that improve business workflows and enable reliable data exchange across enterprise applications., * Independently lead requirements discovery and analysis for enterprise applications, product enhancements, and data integration initiatives.

• Collaborate directly with business stakeholders to understand operational challenges, define current-state and future-state processes, and translate business needs into actionable requirements.
• Develop detailed business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and supporting documentation.
• Write and interpret SQL SELECT statements, including filtering conditions and joins, to investigate data, validate business rules, and support solution analysis.
• Analyze source and target systems, profile data, document field mappings, and define transformation requirements for application integrations.
• Partner with developers and QA engineers to clarify functional requirements, evaluate technical feasibility, and resolve gaps between business expectations and system capabilities.
• Facilitate requirements discussions and communicate solution options, dependencies, and limitations to stakeholders and product leadership.
• Participate in Agile delivery activities, including backlog refinement, user story clarification, requirements validation, and release planning.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect triage, business validation, and implementation readiness.
• Build lasting stakeholder relationships and contribute to ongoing product improvements rather than isolated project delivery or routine ticket resolution.

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• 5-7 years of relevant experience in IT business analysis, business systems analysis, business data analysis, or related technology delivery roles.
• Hands-on SQL proficiency, including the ability to write and interpret SELECT statements with filters and joins.
• Strong requirements elicitation and documentation experience, including stakeholder interviews, process discovery, functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience independently managing complex business analysis assignments from initial discovery through solution delivery.
• Working knowledge of data integration concepts, source-to-target data mapping, data profiling, and transformation requirements.
• Ability to analyze business processes, identify information gaps, ask insightful questions, and recommend effective solutions.
• Experience collaborating with product owners, developers, QA engineers, and business stakeholders in an Agile environment.
• Strong communication, analytical thinking, problem-solving, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently, adapt to changing requirements, and communicate issues or risks transparently.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a Business Systems Analyst, Business Data Analyst, or Reporting Analyst with significant requirements responsibilities.
• Experience supporting enterprise data integrations and documenting transformation logic.
• Familiarity with reporting systems, data validation, and application data flows.
• Experience supporting enterprise sales, commercial operations, or other business-facing technology platforms.
• Experience with Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, or comparable platforms.
• Experience guiding junior analysts or supporting continuous process improvement initiatives.

• Hybrid Schedule: Work onsite in Charlotte, NC, Monday through Thursday, with Fridays remote.
• Working Hours: Eight-hour workdays with core working hours between 9 AM and 4 PM ET.
• Contract Opportunity: Initial six-month assignment with potential extension through December 2027.
• Engagement: W2 only (no C2C/1099); contract-only opportunity.
• Work with a dedicated product delivery team supporting business-critical applications and data integrations.
• Build ongoing relationships with business stakeholders while helping shape technology solutions.
• Take ownership of complex requirements, data analysis, business process mapping, and solution validation.