Senior IT Business Analyst – French-speaking

Location: Bucharest (hybrid)

Languages: Advanced (C1) proficiency in both French and English

Experience: 5+ years

Contract Type: 12-month fixed-term contract, with the possibility of extension based on performance or business needs.

About SNEF and BRINEL | IQANTO

Groupe SNEF is a leading French industrial group providing end-to-end multi-technical solutions across the energy, mechanical engineering, and digital technology sectors. Its expertise covers the entire project lifecycle, from engineering and design to systems integration, maintenance, and operations. The Group also has strong digital capabilities in areas such as cloud computing, cybersecurity, data, automation, and connected technologies.

Since 2018, BRINEL | IQANTO has been Groupe SNEF's strategic IT hub, providing technology expertise and software development capabilities across the Group. In particular, the Java Factory team is responsible for developing, modernizing, and maintaining software applications that support the Group's operations and business activities.

By joining our Bucharest office, you will collaborate closely with SNEF stakeholders in France and contribute to strategic technology initiatives, helping shape the Group's software landscape.

About the role

We're looking for a Senior IT Business Analyst to join our French-speaking Business Analysis team. In this role, you'll work in a dynamic, cross-functional environment, collaborating with Product Owners, business stakeholders, developers, QA specialists, and UI/UX professionals across France and Romania. You'll play a key role in bridging business needs and technical solutions by translating user and business requirements into clear, actionable functional specifications that guide our development teams.

You'll contribute throughout the full product lifecycle, from discovery and understanding existing processes to defining requirements, supporting iterative delivery, and validating outcomes. A key focus will be the redesign and modernization of legacy applications, including migration towards cloud-based microservices architectures. The current landscape includes Java applications with Angular front ends.

This is a hands-on senior role for someone who can lead analysis independently, communicate across cultures and disciplines, and maintain momentum when questions, dependencies, or priorities shift.

What you'll do

· Partner with Product Owners, business stakeholders in France, or end users to identify needs, pain points, and business objectives.

· Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and workshops to gather and clarify requirements.

· Analyze applications, user journeys, and business processes, identify gaps, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.

· Translate business needs into clear functional requirements, process flows, user stories, and testable acceptance criteria.

· Maintain requirements for traceability and support an Agile delivery.

· Collaborate closely with PO, developers, QA, and UI/UX teams to ensure alignment between business needs and technical solutions.

· Contribute to functional testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), validating that delivered solutions meet business requirements.

· Support application modernization and continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging approved AI tools to enhance analysis and delivery efficiency.

· Maintain clear documentation and proactively communicate progress, decisions, risks, and dependencies.

What you'll bring

· 5+ years of experience as an IT Business Analyst or in a related software delivery role, with the ability to independently lead analysis activities.

· Advanced (C1) proficiency in both French and English, written and spoken, for daily international collaboration.

· Proven experience eliciting, analyzing, and documenting software requirements through functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

· Experience collaborating with Product Owners, business stakeholders, and development teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

· Practical Agile and Scrum experience, including backlog refinement and iterative planning; familiarity with Jira and Confluence.

· Ability to understand application behavior, workflows, integrations, and technical constraints, and communicate effectively with developers.

· Strong facilitation, analytical communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage confidently with different audiences.

· A proactive and solution-oriented mindset, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, take ownership, anticipate challenges, and facilitate decision-making.

· A continuous improvement mindset, with the confidence to challenge existing practices, introduce better ways of working, share knowledge, and help colleagues and teams develop their Business Analysis capabilities.

· Experience with process modeling, including AS-IS and TO-BE process mapping.

· Understanding REST APIs, system integrations, data flows, and dependencies between applications.

· Ability to perform gap and impact analysis to identify improvement opportunities and assess the effects of proposed changes.

Why join?

You'll contribute to meaningful product transformations from discovery through delivery, working alongside a French-speaking community, and an international engineering team.

The role offers the opportunity to be part of the Group's modernization initiatives, contribute to strategic software projects, and help build a stronger Java Factory team.