Business Analyst w Entertainment-, NY-#Star

Business Analyst – Entertainment

Location:

New York, NY | Type:
Contract | Duration: 12+ months | Preferred W2 application. Candidates eligible to work in the USA with a valid visa (no sponsorship). Third Party Vendors: do not submit candidates. Face‑to‑face interview required.

A multi‑year project to migrate a global Music Publishing Administration system from IBM iSeries to a PaaS (Platform as a Service) Cloud platform.

• Gather business requirements, functionalities from business Subject Matter Experts and translate into system design, Agile Epics, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• Provide guidance and coach the business Subject Matter Experts in writing clear and complete User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
• Work with the Product Owner to maintain the Scrum Backlog entries in priority order.
• Collaborate with the Architect and the development team to produce System Design, Data Model and UI/UX; create technical stories to support the system requirements.
• Provide clarifications to the entire team as a Product Owner Peer when the Product Owner is not available or facilitate clarification from Business SME.
• Place backlog items into sprints in the most efficient way to deliver the product on time with maximum delivery within a specific amount of time.
• Assist Scrum Master in working with multiple cross‑functional teams to coordinate dependencies delivery and raise issues that could cause a roadblock.
• Provide assistance in quarterly roadmap re‑assessment.

• Proven track record as a Business Analyst across various projects.
• Prior experience as Business Analyst on medium to large‑scale multi‑year projects.
• Experience in system conversion projects to a new platform.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to gather requirements from business Subject Matter Experts locally or remotely using audio/video conference.
• Experience working with offshore development teams and ability to convey detailed requirements and answer queries from the developers.
• Domain knowledge of music publishing business is a plus.

Please respond with an updated resume and a short cover letter indicating how you meet each requested qualification referencing your earlier projects.