Salesforce Business Analyst

About this role

Job Family
SAAS/PAAS/Cloud Application Development


Travel Required
None


Clearance Required
None


What You Will Do
Guidehouse is seeking a Salesforce Business Analyst to support break/fix operations and incremental enhancements for an existing Salesforce org. This role focuses on incident triage, root-cause analysis, requirements clarification, and solution validation, ensuring production issues are resolved efficiently and enhancements are delivered with clarity and minimal disruption to users. The ideal candidate is comfortable working in a production support environment, balancing urgent issue resolution with a steady flow of enhancement requests, and acting as the bridge between business users and technical delivery teams.


Break/Fix (Production Support)

• Serve as the first line of analysis for Salesforce production issues, including user-reported defects, data issues, automation failures, permissions problems, and integration-related incidents.
• Triage and prioritize incidents in coordination with stakeholders and technical team members based on severity, business impact, and urgency.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) by reviewing data, configuration, automation logic, and user workflows to identify the underlying cause of issues.
• Document issues clearly, including problem statements, reproduction steps, impacted users or processes, and recommended fixes.
• Support incident resolution by validating fixes in lower environments and confirming successful remediation in production.
• Communicate status updates, impacts, and resolution summaries to business and technical stakeholders throughout the incident lifecycle.

Enhancements (Backlog Support)

• Elicit and clarify enhancement requests from business users, focusing on incremental improvements rather than net-new platform design.
• Translate enhancement requests into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional requirements suitable for developm...