About the Role
Partner with project, development, and quality assurance teams to translate business needs into clear, actionable Agile requirements. Define themes, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and effort estimates to enable effective planning and delivery. This role is ideal for a technically minded business analyst who can analyze existing documentation, identify opportunities to improve operational effectiveness, and communicate requirements clearly across technical and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate requirements discussions and translate business needs into agency-standard themes, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Convert existing use cases into actionable Jira stories.
- Support project and development teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Review existing process documentation, identify potential efficiency and effectiveness improvements, and document recommendations.
- Facilitate story-point discussions with development and QA teams to support predictive level-of-effort planning.
- Contribute to initiatives that strengthen service delivery and statutory compliance.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a senior-level Business Analyst in a technical, software development, emerging technology, or closely related environment.
- 4+ years of experience working with Agile project management methodologies and practices.
- Comfortable gathering and analyzing requirements.
- Partnering with cross-functional delivery teams.
- Communicating complex needs in a clear, structured format.
- 1+ year of experience understanding and documenting use cases.
- 1+ year of experience with process documentation and process mapping.
- Experience creating and managing themes, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Experience converting use cases into actionable Agile requirements within Jira.
- Experience facilitating story-point estimation or supporting effort-estimation models.
- Strong stakeholder facilitation, requirements analysis, and documentation skills.
Skills
- Agile
- Jira
- Requirements analysis
- Process documentation
- Process mapping
- Stakeholder facilitation
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior-level
- II
About the Company
- RESPEC is 100% employee-owned.
- Since 1969, RESPEC has tackled complex challenges in energy transition, infrastructure resilience, digital transformation, and sustainability.
- At RESPEC, you’ll work alongside clients to take on critical problems.
- RESPEC brings deep technical knowledge, real-world experience, and a commitment to work that matters.
Equal Opportunity
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
