TORUS Business Analyst

Salt Lake City, United States | Posted on 03/03/2026

• Assigned Recruiter(s):
  Dinesh Mathi, Ananth Vegiraju
• Number of Positions: 1

Assists the full-time TORUS Business Analyst in eliciting, analyzing, specifying, and validating business needs of stakeholders. Interviews stakeholders, gathers and compiles user requirements. Applies proven communication, analytical, and problem‑solving skills to help the organization make sound technology decisions. Proactively collaborates with Business Technology Partners to identify new technologies that optimize business processes. Plays a supporting role in ensuring the Information Technology Division understands business requirements.

This is a temporary contract engagement to provide dedicated business analysis services for defined projects and initiatives.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Business Administration, Computer Science, Finance, Information Systems, or other closely related field, plus four (4) years of related experience.
• OR an equivalent combination of related education and experience.
• Demonstrated ability to create technical user stories and requirements documentation.
• Due to the nature of this position, the selected contractor must pass a required pre‑engagement background check and subsequent mandatory background checks in accordance with current County policy requirements.

• Collaborates with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
• Clearly identifies project stakeholders and establishes user classes, and characteristics.
• Gathers user requirements via interviews, workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
• Identifies, establishes, and documents scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project‑by‑project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Understands and coordinates Agile processes including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Creates User Stories used by the development team to create software.
• Works with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
• Evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements‑gathering processes and develops strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
• Assists in conducting research on software and hardware products to meet agreed‑upon requirements and support purchasing efforts.
• Participates in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized.
• Participates in the selection of requirements documentation software solutions as needed.
• Analyzes and verifies technical requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
• Develops and utilizes standard templates to write requirements specifications accurately and concisely.
• Translates conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
• Develops prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on user requirements as needed.
• Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
• Develops and conducts peer reviews of business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
• Assists with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicates options back to stakeholders.
• Manages and tracks the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforces and redefines as necessary.
• Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders.
• Supports knowledge transfer and documentation efforts as directed by the TORUS Business Analyst.
• Follows all applicable Salt Lake County policies, guidelines, and information security standards.

• Agile and Scrum processes
• Core business process and operations; or demonstrated ability to learn the same
• Business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology…