Senior Business Analyst

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Senior Business Analys t for a full-time position (40 hours per week), on a short-term basis (5 months) in Ukraine. Our client is a consulting and custom software development firm focused on regulated sectors. Typically, their clients seek high-end software development services, with the firm providing top-tier warranties. Consequently, the client has established a solid reputation in the industry for creating solutions that meet specifications with very few software defects. They are recognized as the leading software developer in Australia.

Engagement with the client between 2:00 pm AEST and 10:00 pm AEST.

• Experience writing clear, structured user stories and detailed acceptance criteria independently.
• Ability to capture edge cases, exceptions, and scenarios.
• Ability to ensure stories meet the "ready for dev" standard.
• Experience reviewing existing features against new requirements.
• Ability to document clear business rules and financial logic.
• Ability to understand and question workflow processes.
• Experience with permit and application workflows.
• Ability to identify gaps and inconsistencies, and to challenge them.
• Strong Jira experience (backlog, workflows, and transitions).
• Experience maintaining Jira hygiene: acceptance criteria, updates, and traceability.
• Ability to track actions through to completion.
• Experience in Agile delivery teams, including sprint cycles, refinement, QA, and release flow.
• Experience with release planning and management for continuous delivery to Production.
• Ability to prepare work ahead of development.
• Experience with digital modernization projects.
• Ability to shape flows, interactions, and user journeys.
• Ability to define behavior clearly for developers.
• Ability to think through usability and clarity.
• Experience documenting integration behavior and considering data flows and edge cases.
• Experience managing parallel legacy and new systems.
• Ability to define and test expected AI behaviors, and to think through edge cases, reliability, and outputs.
• Ability to support QA with clear requirements and to think through real-world usage cases.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with clear, structured communication.
• Ability to drive actions to completion.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to resolve gaps.
• Ability to manage scope and define the MVP with stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple conflicting stakeholders.
• Ability to work autonomously without heavy hand-holding.
• Ability to identify scope and process risks early.
• Experience with offshore development teams and the offshore delivery model.
• Familiarity with INVEST principles.
• Experience with vehicle licensing and registration systems.
• Awareness of DevOps and CI/CD.
• Exposure to low-code development.
• Ability to create simple wireframes or mockups.
• Experience with AI tools or prompt-driven systems.
• Experience with less mature product teams.
• Experience setting up Jira workflows.
• Experience in scaled or multi-team environments.
• Own the quality of inputs into development and the alignment of scope management to delivery.
• Minimize scope creep and system divergence.
• Ensure that stories are truly ready before developers pick them up, that business rules are never left to developer interpretation, and that missing information or additional requirements are surfaced and resolved early rather than discovered mid-sprint.
• Play a key role in maintaining delivery flow and quality across the program.