Business Analyst (Scrum/Azure DevOps) – Full Remote Portugal

**Business Analyst (Scrum/Azure DevOps) – Full Remote Portugal** --- **ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY** A focused, hands-on Business Analyst contract for someone who is at home in a Scrum environment and knows how to turn messy stakeholder input into clean, actionable user stories. You'll be embedded in a digital product delivery team, working directly with a client Product Manager and business stakeholders to capture, refine, and manage requirements for a web solution. If you're precise with requirements, proactive with stakeholders, and comfortable in Azure DevOps, this is a well-scoped contract with a clear mandate. Start date: **31 August 2026**. End date: **28 February 2027**. --- **PROJECT & CONTEXT** You'll be supporting the delivery of a web solution project, working within an agile Scrum team. Your primary focus will be requirements capture and user story management — from initial stakeholder conversations through to refined, sprint-ready stories in Azure DevOps. You'll act as the bridge between the client's Product Manager, business stakeholders, and the delivery team, ensuring that what gets built reflects what the business actually needs. --- **WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR** **Experience** - Proven experience as a **Business Analyst in a Scrum/Agile delivery environment** - Track record of working on **web solution projects** — understanding digital product delivery from requirements through release - **Fluent English** — written and spoken, for stakeholder engagement and documentation **Requirements & Backlog Management** - Hands-on experience using **Azure DevOps** to capture, manage, and refine user stories - Ability to write **clear, well-structured user stories** with acceptance criteria that development and QA teams can act on immediately - Experience facilitating **backlog refinement sessions** and keeping the backlog sprint-ready - Skilled at working closely with a **Product Manager and business stakeholders** to elicit, challenge, and validate requirements **Stakeholder Collaboration** - Comfortable engaging directly with **client-side stakeholders** — asking the right questions, managing expectations, and translating business needs into technical requirements - Experience working in **cross-functional delivery teams** spanning development, QA, UX, and product --- **NICE TO HAVE** - Background in **retail or e-commerce** — understanding of retail business processes, customer journeys, or merchandising workflows - Familiarity with **UX/UI concepts** — ability to contribute to wireframe reviews or usability discussions - Experience with **Confluence or similar documentation tools** for process mapping and specification writing - Exposure to **release management or UAT coordination** in a web delivery context - Knowledge of **Jira** or other agile backlog tools in addition to Azure DevOps