Business Analyst

Cognizance Technologies, LLC | Full time

Silver Spring, United States | Posted on 08/17/2026

We are seeking an experienced

Senior Business Analyst / Agile Project Coordinator with approximately 8 yearsof professional experience supporting complex, cross-functional initiatives.

This role combines business analysis, Agile/Scrum coordination, project delivery support, stakeholder engagement, requirements management, and process improvement.

The ideal candidate will serveas a bridge between business stakeholders, subject matter experts, technical teams, content and publishing teams, and project leadership. The individual will help translate business needs into actionable requirements, coordinate

Agile delivery activities, track dependencies and risks, and ensure work progresses efficiently from requirements through implementation and release.

Experience supporting digital publishing, content management, web platforms, document/content workflows, orsimilar environments is highly desirable.

• Partner with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, product owners, technical teams, and other partners to identify and document business needs.
• Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions,stakeholder interviews, workshops, and process discussions.
• Develop and maintain business requirements,functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and supporting documentation.
• Translate complex business needs into clear,actionable requirements for technical and operational teams.
• Analyze current-state processes and recommend improvements to workflows, systems, and business processes.
• Support requirements traceability from initial business need through implementation, testing, and release.
• Identify requirement gaps, dependencies,assumptions, and potential impacts across business and technical work streams.
• Assist stakeholders with prioritizing requirements and resolving competing business needs.
• Support Agile/Scrum delivery practices across multidisciplinary teams.
• Coordinate and facilitate Agile ceremonies,including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews,and retrospectives.
• Work closely with Product Owners and team members to maintain a well-defined and prioritized product backlog.
• Help ensure user stories contain sufficient business context, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation before development begins.
• Track sprint commitments, deliverables,dependencies, impediments, and follow‑up actions.
• Promote consistent Agile practices while adapting processes appropriately to organizational and project needs.
• Support continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to strengthen team workflows, communication, and delivery practices.

• Coordinate activities across business,technical, content, publishing, quality assurance, and other stakeholder groups.
• Develop and maintain project schedules,milestone plans, action-item trackers, dependency logs, risk and issue registers, and status reports.
• Monitor deliverables and proactively identify schedule risks, resource constraints, dependencies, and blockers.
• Coordinate meetings, document decisions, assignand track action items, and follow up with responsible parties.
• Escalate risks, issues, and unresolved dependencies to project leadership when appropriate.
• Assist with release planning and readiness activities.
• Support communication between business and technical teams to ensure common understanding of priorities, requirements,timelines, and expected outcomes.
• Prepare concise project status updates,dashboards, meeting materials, and leadership briefings as needed.

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