Senior Business Analyst Energy

Senior Business Analyst – Energy 

Location: Houston, Texas Employment Type: Contract Work Arrangement: Onsite

Role Summary

We are seeking a strong Business Analyst with experience analyzing business processes, gathering requirements, and preparing detailed process and solution documentation. The ideal candidate should have excellent stakeholder-management skills and preferably have experience in the energy, oil and gas, utilities, or commodity-trading domain.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with business and technology stakeholders to understand business needs, challenges, and objectives.

• Conduct workshops and interviews to gather and validate business and functional requirements.

• Analyze current-state processes and identify gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.

• Develop current-state and future-state process maps, workflows, and operating procedures.

• Prepare Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirements Documents, user stories, use cases, and process-design documents.

• Translate business requirements into clear specifications for technical and delivery teams.

• Coordinate with product owners, developers, architects, testing teams, and business users throughout the project lifecycle.

• Support solution design, testing, user acceptance testing, implementation, and change-management activities.

• Maintain requirements traceability and ensure that delivered solutions meet business expectations.

• Provide regular project updates and help resolve requirement-related issues.

Required Skills

• 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in technology or business-transformation projects.

• Strong experience in requirements gathering, business-process analysis, and process mapping.

• Experience creating process flows using tools such as Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart, or similar platforms.

• Strong documentation skills, including BRDs, FRDs, user stories, use cases, functional specifications, and standard operating procedures.

• Experience working with both business and technical stakeholders.

• Good understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.

• Experience supporting UAT, defect resolution, implementation, and process improvements.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work from the Houston office as required.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in the energy, oil and gas, utilities, power, commodities, or energy-trading domain.

• Understanding of front-, middle-, or back-office energy processes.

• Experience with ETRM, ERP, CRM, workflow, or enterprise transformation projects.

• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint, and Excel.