
Contract Technical Business Analyst
CALSTART
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $40 - $50 per hour
About the role
- Lead structured discovery with program and operations stakeholders to uncover goals, constraints, exceptions, edge cases, and decision logic.
- Translate policy and operational needs into build-ready requirements artifacts such as: epics/features/user stories with clear acceptance criteria and Definition of Ready alignment process maps (current/future), workflow diagrams, and decision trees/rule logic data requirements (objects/fields, definitions, validations, reporting needs) integration requirements (upstream/downstream systems, handoffs, error states)
- Facilitate requirement reviews and alignment sessions, ensuring shared understanding and documented decisions.
- Act as a gatekeeper for incoming work requests.
- Partner with PMs to shape intake, clarify scope boundaries, and support prioritization based on value, risk, dependencies, and effort.
- Collaborate with Admins/Devs to validate feasibility, identify dependencies, and reduce churn caused by unclear requirements.
- Maintain traceability from intake → requirements → build → test.
- Enable strong UAT outcomes by defining test scenarios, supporting test case creation, and ensuring acceptance criteria are testable.
- Support triage of requirement-related defects and change requests, clarifying intent and updating documentation as needed.
- Maintain high-quality documentation in Confluence (or equivalent) and ensure consistent artifact quality across initiatives.
- Apply and reinforce team SDLC standards (story quality, acceptance criteria, readiness, and test alignment).
Requirements
- 7+ years experience as a Business Analyst / Senior Business Analyst supporting software delivery in an SDLC environment.
- Demonstrated excellence in stakeholder interviewing and translating ambiguous asks into clear, testable requirements.
- Strong experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional requirements that reduce delivery rework.
- Strong process mapping skills (current/future state) and ability to translate process into system behavior.
- Salesforce ecosystem experience (Sales/Service Cloud and/or Experience Cloud), including understanding of objects/data concepts and automation constraints.
- Experience collaborating with Salesforce admins/developers and/or external vendors to deliver solutions.
- Proficiency with Jira (or similar) and strong documentation practices (Confluence or similar).
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
Benefits
- 100% company paid comprehensive health benefits for Medical, Dental, Vision, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability and Life Insurance
- Retirement plan with generous company contributions
- FSA for Health and Dependent Care
- 3 weeks of vacation time in the first year of employment
- 11 paid company holidays
- Paid sick time
- Paid family leave
- More!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
requirements artifactsepicsfeaturesuser storiesacceptance criteriaprocess mappingtest scenariosfunctional requirementsSDLCSalesforce
Soft Skills
stakeholder interviewingcollaborationdocumentation practicesclarifying intentfacilitationprioritizationcommunicationproblem-solvingdecision makingtraceability