Lead Business Analyst (Nuc Job/ 12)

Budget - 1.5LPM
Lead Business Analyst – Position Description
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Lead Business Analyst to lead and manage all business analysis activities for a complex enterprise software development project. The Lead BA will oversee a team of Business Analysts while serving as the primary liaison between technical development teams and business stakeholders. This role is critical in ensuring that all project requirements are captured, understood, prioritized, and successfully translated into technical specifications and deliverables.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Management
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Lead BA Team: Direct and mentor a team of Business Analysts throughout all project phases, providing guidance on best practices, methodologies, and quality standards
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Stakeholder Alignment: Act as the primary conduit between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring clear communication and mutual understanding of requirements and constraints
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Requirements Governance: Establish and enforce standards for requirements documentation, change management, and quality assurance across the BA function
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Team Development: Conduct regular one-on-ones, performance evaluations, and provide coaching to develop BA team competencies and career growth
Requirements Analysis & Management
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Requirements Elicitation: Lead comprehensive requirements gathering sessions with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, and end-users across multiple departments and functional areas
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Functional Specification Development: Author detailed functional requirements documents (FRD) and use cases that clearly define system behavior, business rules, and acceptance criteria
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Requirements Documentation: Establish templates, standards, and documentation practices that ensure clarity, traceability, and consistency across all requirements artifacts
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Requirement Prioritization: Work with stakeholders to prioritize features and requirements based on business value, complexity, dependencies, and delivery timelines
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Traceability Management: Maintain comprehensive requirements traceability matrices (RTM) to track requirements from conception through development, testing, and deployment
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Impact Analysis: Assess the impact of requirement changes on scope, timeline, cost, and technical architecture; communicate trade-offs to stakeholders
Process & Workflow Design
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Business Process Mapping: Document current-state and future-state business processes; identify improvement opportunities and optimization points
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Workflow Configuration: Collaborate with technical architects to design configurable workflows that support complex business scenarios and edge cases
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Data Mapping & Transformation: Define data mapping rules and transformation logic between legacy and new systems; ensure data integrity throughout migration processes
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Integration Requirements: Define integration points with third-party systems and legacy applications; document API requirements, data exchanges, and synchronization needs
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Rules & Constraints: Codify business rules, compliance requirements, and operational constraints into functional specifications for development
Quality Assurance & Validation
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Requirements Review: Conduct thorough reviews of requirements documentation to identify gaps, ambiguities, conflicts, or inconsistencies
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UAT Preparation: Define user acceptance testing (UAT) strategies, test scenarios, and acceptance criteria; prepare UAT documentation and test scripts
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UAT Execution: Oversee UAT activities; facilitate testing sessions with end-users; document defects and issues; recommend resolutions
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Sign-Off & Approval: Obtain formal approval and sign-off from business stakeholders on requirements and deliverables; manage approval workflows
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Quality Metrics: Establish metrics to track requirements quality, requirement volatility, and defect rates; use data to drive continuous improvement
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
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Regular Stakeholder Meetings: Organize and facilitate sprint ceremonies, backlog grooming sessions, requirement review meetings, and steering committee briefings
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Clear Communication: Prepare executive summaries, status reports, and presentations that communicate project progress, risks, issues, and recommendations to leadership
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Expectation Management: Ensure stakeholders have realistic expectations about scope, timeline, capabilities, and trade-offs; proactively manage scope creep
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Feedback Integration: Gather feedback from end-users, SMEs, and stakeholders; integrate constructive feedback into requirements and processes
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Change Request Coordination: Evaluate and communicate the impact of proposed changes through formal change management processes
Cross-functional Collaboration
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Technical Partnership: Work closely with Solution Architects, Technical Leads, and Development teams to ensure requirements are technically feasible and well-understood
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Design Collaboration: Partner with UI/UX designers to validate that designs support functional requirements and user needs
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QA Partnership: Collaborate with QA leads on test planning, test case development, and defect resolution strategies
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Project Management Alignment: Work with Project Managers to ensure BA deliverables align with project milestones, dependencies, and timelines
Project Phases
The Lead BA will be actively involved throughout the following project phases:
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Discovery Phase: Lead requirements elicitation, current-state analysis, and preliminary system design
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Development Phase: Refine requirements, provide clarifications to development teams, manage requirement changes, prepare UAT documentation
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Testing & UAT Phase: Oversee user acceptance testing, coordinate defect resolution, prepare for production deployment
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Post-Deployment Support: Support production stabilization and prepare documentation for operational handoff
Required Qualifications
Education & Certification
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Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field
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Certification in Business Analysis (IIBA CBAP, ECBA, or equivalent) strongly preferred
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Project Management certification (PMP, PRINCE2) is a plus
Experience
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Minimum 8+ years of professional business analysis experience in enterprise software development projects
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Minimum 4+ years of experience leading or supervising a team of analysts
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Proven experience with complex, multi-stakeholder projects involving significant scope and integration requirements
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Experience in case management, criminal justice systems, public sector, healthcare, or regulated industries is a strong plus
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Track record of successfully managing requirements for enterprise platforms with multiple user personas
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Experience with data migration projects and legacy system integration
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Familiarity with AI/ML-powered features, natural language processing, or advanced analytics is beneficial
Core Competencies
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Analytical Skills: Exceptional ability to analyze complex business problems, identify root causes, and recommend data-driven solutions
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Requirements Elicitation: Advanced skills in interviewing stakeholders, facilitating workshops, and extracting implicit requirements
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Documentation Excellence: Mastery of clear, concise technical writing; ability to create professional business requirements documents, process flows, and specifications
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Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead teams, inspire collaboration, and drive quality outcomes in matrix organizational structures
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Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; ability to tailor messaging for different audience levels (executives, technical teams, end-users)
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Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities; comfort with ambiguity and ability to work through complex scenarios
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Attention to Detail: Meticulous attention to detail; strong quality orientation; ability to catch gaps and inconsistencies in specifications
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Stakeholder Management: Ability to manage diverse stakeholders with competing priorities; strong negotiation and influencing skills
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Change Management: Experience managing organizational change and resistance; ability to guide stakeholders through transformation
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Process Improvement: Knowledge of business process optimization, workflow design, and operational efficiency best practices
Technical Knowledge
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Working knowledge of relational databases and data schemas
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Understanding of system architecture, integration patterns, and API concepts
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Familiarity with development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches)
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Comfort with tools used for requirements management, documentation, and project tracking (JIRA, Azure DevOps, Confluence, or similar)
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Basic understanding of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and hosting considerations
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Knowledge of data migration, ETL processes, and data transformation is beneficial
Key Deliverables
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Requirements documentation suite (FRD, use cases, data models, process flows)
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Requirements traceability matrix (RTM)
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Change request evaluations and impact assessments
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UAT strategy and test documentation
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Status reports and executive communications
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Risk and issue logs
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Lessons learned documentation
Reporting Structure
The Lead Business Analyst will report to the Project Manager or Engagement Director and work in close collaboration with:
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Solution Architect
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Development Lead / Technical Lead
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QA Lead
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UI/UX Design Lead
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Project Manager
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Client Business Stakeholders and SMEs
Note
This position description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed; it is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The organization reserves the right to modify or supplement this position description based on business needs.