Senior Business Analyst

The role

You will support Airbus's strategic shopfloor application migration initiative. You will gather, document, validate, and manage business requirements while working on the manufacturing floor with operators, supervisors, quality teams, and engineers.

What you will do

• Lead requirements gathering workshops with stakeholders.
• Analyze existing manufacturing applications and support migration, replacement, or redevelopment decisions.
• Observe shopfloor operations and identify gaps between documented procedures and actual business practices.
• Create and maintain Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), functional specifications, and process flows.
• Define and document functional and non-functional requirements.
• Ensure requirements are reviewed, validated, and approved by stakeholders.
• Support application assessments related to business value, production impact, dependencies, and operational risk.
• Collaborate with project teams on testing strategies, UAT, data migration, cutover planning, and rollback procedures.
• Facilitate discussions with stakeholders and challenge proposed solutions.
• Communicate project status, risks, issues, and decision points to leadership.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of hands-on Business Analyst experience supporting enterprise applications.
• Demonstrated experience authoring Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) and functional specifications.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders throughout the requirements lifecycle.
• Strong knowledge of business process analysis, requirements elicitation, documentation, and validation.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial, production, or shopfloor environments.
• Experience supporting at least one enterprise application migration, modernization, replacement, or implementation through go-live.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Ability to work full-time onsite in Kinston, NC.

Nice to have

• Aerospace or aviation manufacturing experience.
• Experience working with SAP, particularly SAP PP (Production Planning) and SAP QM (Quality Management).
• Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and other shopfloor applications.
• Knowledge of data migration strategies and cutover planning.
• Experience supporting user training and organizational change management efforts.
• Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid SDLC environments.
• Familiarity with manufacturing operations, production planning, quality systems, and engineering workflows.

Benefits

• mentorship
• career growth opportunities
• comprehensive benefits

Before you apply

• All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.

About the company

ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering company with 3,000+ experts across North America. It is part of the global ALTEN Group which has 57,000+ engineers in 30 countries.