Principal Business Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Define and consistently enhance the complete requirements lifecycle, which encompasses elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, approval, baselining, and change management.

• Create and uphold requirements processes within the Quality Management System (QMS).

• Conduct structured interviews, workshops, and working sessions with business stakeholders, customers, and subject matter experts (SMEs).

• Develop templates and establish quality standards for requirements documentation while ensuring consistency across teams.

• Write user stories, functional requirements specifications, configuration specifications, use case documents, and interface/data requirements.

• Maintain a requirements traceability matrix that links business needs, requirements, design, test cases, and releases.

• Facilitate requirements review boards and walkthroughs, managing formal stakeholder sign-offs.

• Oversee requirements change control, which includes impact analysis, approval routing, versioning, and communication.

• Identify gaps, conflicts, and ambiguities, ensuring that requirements are testable, clear, and prioritized.

• Ensure that requirements documentation complies with applicable audit and regulatory standards in software environments.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in business analysis, product management, or requirements engineering.

• At least 2 years of experience managing a requirements process.

• Proficiency in structured elicitation techniques, including interviews, workshops, use cases, and prototyping.

• Excellent written communication skills.

• Capability to convert ambiguous stakeholder inputs into clear, testable requirements.

• Familiarity with requirements management or ALM tools such as Jira/Confluence, Azure DevOps, Jama Connect, ReqView, IBM DOORS, or similar.

• Knowledge of traditional SRS-style and agile epics/stories/acceptance criteria formats.

• Experience in building or maintaining a requirements traceability matrix.

• Practical experience in writing user stories, functional requirements specifications, and configuration specifications.

• Prior hands-on software development experience sufficient to read code and technical designs, assessing feasibility and complexity.

• Preferred: Certification in business analysis such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, or similar.

• Preferred: Experience in regulated healthcare software, including 21 CFR 820, IEC 62304, SOC 2, and HIPAA.

• Preferred: Exposure to API-first or platform products.

• Must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• 401(k) plan with company matching.

• Unlimited paid time off.

• Significant opportunities for career development, allowing for a major impact at a rapidly growing company.

• A collaborative and innovative work environment.

• A chance to make a tangible impact on patient care.

• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI technology in the healthcare sector.