Business Systems Analyst

This role requires candidates who are currently authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship, and C2C arrangements are not accepted. This role is onsite near Tustin, CA.

Please submit your resume and send to recruiters@vsearchgroup.com if you are interested. Thank you!

Overview

We are seeking a product-minded Business Systems Analyst (BSA) / Product Owner to support a high-visibility data transformation initiative. This role sits at the center of business and engineering, responsible for bringing clarity, structure, and direction to fast-moving, ambiguous work.

This is not a passive documentation role. The ideal candidate will guide stakeholders, challenge unclear requirements, and ensure engineering teams receive clean, actionable inputs to execute effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, clarify, and refine business requirements across cross-functional stakeholders
• Translate vague or incomplete requests into clear, structured, and actionable requirements
• Guide stakeholders who may not fully understand their needs or desired outcomes
• Define and organize scope, including priorities, dependencies, and open questions
• Act as a buffer between business stakeholders and engineering to reduce noise and ambiguity
• Ensure engineering teams receive well-defined, ready-to-build requirements
• Maintain documentation such as user stories, acceptance criteria, and requirement artifacts
• Support cross-functional collaboration across business, product, and engineering teams
• Bring structure and organization to a fast-moving, evolving transformation environment

Required Qualifications

• Experience as a Business Systems Analyst, Business Analyst, Product Owner, or Systems Analyst
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
• Strong experience in requirements gathering, scoping, and documentation
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and guide unclear conversations to clarity
• Proven ability to work across technical and non-technical teams
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to track priorities, dependencies, and scope

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting data, analytics, or engineering teams
• Exposure to data platforms, reporting, or transformation initiatives
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence)
• Experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Technical literacy in areas such as data pipelines, SQL, or cloud platforms (not required to be hands-on)

What This Role Solves

• Unclear or poorly defined requirements
• Stakeholders who are unsure of what they need
• Misalignment between business expectations and engineering delivery
• Inefficiencies caused by ambiguous or incomplete requests
• Lack of structure in a fast-moving transformation initiative

What Success Looks Like

• Stakeholders are guided toward clear, actionable requirements
• Engineering teams receive clean, prioritized, and well-defined inputs
• Reduced rework and improved delivery efficiency
• Strong alignment across business and technical teams
• Clear organization of scope, priorities, and project direction

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Product-minded BSA who thinks beyond documentation
• Confident communicator who can ask the right questions and push back diplomatically
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, evolving, and ambiguous environments
• Highly organized and detail-oriented
• Able to translate “big ideas” into structured, phased execution plans
• Calm, proactive, and outcome-focused

Work Environment

• Fast-moving, collaborative transformation environment
• Contract-to-hire with strong potential for long-term conversion