Senior Business Analyst

At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day. Summary: Senior Business Analysts are trusted partners to the business functions they serve. Their credibility as advisors rests on expertise they actively build and apply: deep knowledge of CA’s organizational ecosystem, fluency in how peers and the broader industry tackle the same challenges, and command of the functional discipline itself -- the frameworks, standards, and emerging practices that define what good looks like. This combination is what allows them to bring recommendations grounded in both CA’s context and a wider reference point. Sr. BAs shape how problems are framed, not just how requirements are structured. They anticipate downstream impacts before anyone asks. They are present in the operating rhythm of the business, [... source excerpt omitted ...] BA team -- mentoring peers, raising the quality bar through their own work, and contributing to the standards and methods that define how the function operates. Essential Duties/Responsibilities: Business Partnership & Stakeholder Engagement · Serve as a trusted advisor to business within the assigned domain -- present and accessible in the business’s operating rhythm, not just project ceremonies. · Build and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders; understand their priorities, constraints, and context well enough to anticipate needs before they’re articulated. · Lead discovery for complex, multi-team initiatives; facilitate workshops and alignment sessions that produ [... source excerpt omitted ...] ere possible, and know when to bring in IT Business Partnering leadership or peer domain BAs to reach the right outcome. · Mentor peers on discovery, stakeholder engagement, and requirements quality; contribute patterns and examples to the broader BA practice. Requirements & Problem Definition · Shape and reframe problem statements; challenge assumptions and identify root causes that stakeholders may not have fully surfaced. · Structure complex, ambiguous business needs into clear, actionable requirements for high-complexity solutions -- with minimal rework from QA or development. · Anticipate downstream technical and business impacts; surface risks before they become blocke