Lead Business Analyst
*This is an onsite position
Description:
- The Lead Business Analyst is a strategic people focused role responsible for improving the quality consistency and impact of Business Analysis across the organization.
- This position combines mentorship facilitation and strong analytical leadership to strengthen requirements improve delivery outcomes and support alignment between business and technology teams.
- You will serve as a servant leader for a team of 8 to 10 Business Analysts.
- You will remove obstacles coach their growth and promote strong BA practices.
- This role is ideal for someone who leads through influence builds trust quickly and enjoys helping teams reach clarity and shared understanding.
Responsibilities:
Standards and Requirements:
- Establish refine and promote consistent BA methods templates and documentation standards.
- Ensure high quality requirements such as BRDs RTMs user stories acceptance criteria process flows and data requirements.
- Validate requirements to confirm business value technical feasibility and alignment with organizational goals.
- Provide clear and constructive feedback to improve BA deliverables and reduce rework.
- Ensure BA outputs are accurate complete and delivered on time to support project milestones.
- Support testing approaches that include functional nonfunctional and data related needs.
Support Teams and Build Alignment:
- Create a collaborative and supportive environment across business units IT teams and vendor partners.
- Act as a trusted liaison who brings clarity and alignment to complex business needs.
- Facilitate workshops discovery sessions and cross team discussions that support decision making.
- Support change management through clear and proactive communication.
- Work with product owners project managers and leadership to prioritize requirements manage risks and maintain project momentum.
Communicate Clearly and Influence Decisions:
- Communicate complex ideas in a clear and simple way for executives, technical teams, and end users.
- Translate business needs into structured actionable requirements and documentation.
- Present recommendations findings and updates to senior leadership with confidence.
- Produce well organized documentation that supports planning and solution design.
Coach and Develop the BA Team:
- Mentor and develop Business Analysts building confidence and strong analytical skills.
- Identify opportunities to improve BA processes tools and team capabilities.
- Lead improvements that increase efficiency consistency and quality across the BA function.
- Ensure alignment with leadership and the team before introducing new methods or standards.
- Remove roadblocks provide direction and address risks that affect BA performance.
- Model accountability transparency and a commitment to high quality work.
Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- Bachelors degree in Business Information Technology or a related field
- 7 or more years of Business Analyst experience including at least 3 years mentoring or leading analysts
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Solid understanding of elicitation techniques requirements documentation and process modeling
- Experience with Agile methods such as Scrum or Kanban
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills
- Experience with enterprise level or multimodule systems
- Proficiency with BA and ALM tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps
- Servant leadership and mentoring
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Analytical mindset and focus on continuous improvement
- Skilled in stakeholder engagement and facilitation
- High attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and support several projects at once
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and process modeling tools
Preferred Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- Experience shaping BA practice standards or contributing to a BA Center of Excellence
- Background in data governance data integration or data quality
- Familiarity with testing methods and ALM or automated testing tools
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills including the ability to use data for insights
Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- Business Analysis – Expert level knowledge in business analysis functions (requirements, stakeholder management, testing, etc), Required 10 Years
- Leadership – Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with experience leading and guiding experienced teams., Required 7 Years
- Communication – Effectively conveying ideas to both technical and non-technical teams at various levels of an organization, Required 7 Years
- Stakeholder Management – Ability to build and maintain working relationships with key stakeholders within the organization, Required 7 Years
- Support – Guide and help experienced professionals in achieving their goals and support in removing obstacles., Required 7 Years
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