Slalom Flex (Project Based) - Business Analyst
Slalom, LLC

Business Analyst

Location: Phoenix, AZ (1 day a week onsite required)

Who You'll Work With

At Slalom, personal connection meets global scale. Our vision is to enable a world in which everyone loves their work and life. We help organizations of all kinds redefine what's possible, give shape to the future-and get there. We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support product delivery efforts within the utilities industry. This role will work closely with the Product Owner and business stakeholders to capture, refine, and translate business requirements into well-structured, actionable user stories. The ideal candidate brings strong domain experience, exceptional organization, and the ability to quickly build trusted relationships through consistent, high-quality delivery.

What You'll Do

• Build, organize, and maintain a highly structured product backlog in Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Perform initial backlog cleanup and lead ongoing grooming to ensure clarity, consistency, and usability
• Write high-quality user stories using industry best practices, including:
  • Clear and concise descriptions
  • Appropriate metadata (priority, tags, dependencies, etc.)
  • Well-defined acceptance criteria that meet INVEST standards
• Partner closely with the Product Owner to capture, clarify, and refine business needs
• Elicit and document requirements from diverse business stakeholders, ensuring alignment between business goals and delivered solutions
• Rapidly learn and deeply understand complex business processes and solution requirements, particularly within the utilities domain
• Support backlog refinement sessions, sprint planning, and ongoing delivery activities by ensuring stories are "ready" for development

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience functioning as a Business Analyst on agile delivery teams
• Utilities industry experience is highly preferred
• Hands-on experience working with Azure DevOps (ADO), particularly backlog and work item management
• Strong understanding of Agile / Scrum methodologies and user story best practices
• Demonstrated ability to write clear, testable user stories with effective acceptance criteria
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships, especially with Product Owners and business partners

About Us

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.

Compensation and Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that includemeaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, the targeted hourly pay range is $45/HR to $55/HR. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at: peopleone@slalom.com.

EEO and Accommodations

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team or contact accomodationrequest@slalom.com if you require accommodations during the interview process.

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