The Sr. Business Analyst is a hybrid leadership and hands-on execution role responsible for leading the Business Analyst function while personally performing advanced business analysis work. This includes requirements discovery documentation backlog grooming stakeholder engagement and alignment across Product Engineering UX QA Architecture and Release teams.
This role will guide consulting resources establish best practices and ensure the delivery pipeline is never slowed due to unclear or incomplete requirements. The ideal candidate is proactive technically fluent exceptionally organized and able to communicate clearly with business stakeholders.
Experience with Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) and React Native mobile development environments is a strong plus.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership
Establish standards templates and best practices for business and functional requirements documentation and backlog management.
Drive continuous improvement to increase throughput reduce delays and improve requirements quality across teams.
Requirements Analysis
Conduct stakeholder interviews workshops and requirements-gathering sessions.
Document business requirements user stories acceptance criteria functional specifications process flows use cases and decision logs.
Translate high-level initiatives into clear technically feasible user stories.
Break down complex features into smaller incremental deliverables following INVEST principles.
Create structured artifacts that reduce ambiguity and accelerate development and QA.
Support traceability across requirements design testing and deployment.
Backlog Ownership & Proactive Self-Management
Maintain a clean organized and well-prioritized backlog for multiple Scrum teams.
Independently determine which stories need refinement and approval based on project priorities.
Ensure the BA function is never the bottleneck by anticipating upcoming needs and gathering requirements early.
Drive backlog refinement sessions and proactively resolve blockers.
Stakeholder Engagement
Directly schedule and lead requirement meetings refinement sessions and alignment discussions with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
Build strong collaborative relationships with business partners across Marketing Revenue Management Operations CX and other departments.
Serve as the central point of clarity across the SDLC from kickoff to release.
Cross-Team Alignment
Partner closely with Product Engineering UX QA Analytics and Release Management to ensure shared understanding of scope and priorities.
Facilitate communication across teams to avoid misalignment delays or rework.
UAT Release Planning & Execution Support
Ensure stakeholders understand testing responsibilities and timelines.
Support release planning and ensure requirements are aligned with release cycles.
Provide documentation in a controlled governed and audit-ready manner.
Risk Identification & Mitigation
Identify unclear requirements missing business rules architecture constraints or stakeholder disagreements early.
Document risks and drive resolution before development begins.
Prevent mid-sprint churn by enforcing discipline around definition of ready (DoR).
Qualifications :
710 years of hands-on Business Analyst experience in a digital or technology-focused environment.
25 years managing or leading Business Analysts or Agile delivery teams.
Strong understanding of website and mobile app development processes.
Expertise with Agile / Scrum refinement practices and SDLC methodologies.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills including the ability to interact confidently with Directors and VPs.
Highly organized self-directed and proactiveoperates independently and anticipates needs.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to break down complex features.
Technical fluency (APIs data flows front-end / back-end constraints digital platform capabilities).
Additional Information :
Workplace
Public Storage is an equal opportunity employer and embraces diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability or any other protected status. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.
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Remote Work : No
Employment Type : Full-time
Key Skills
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Experience : years
Vacancy : 1
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