Lead Business Analyst (Agile)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Business Analyst (Agile) based in United States. This senior role leads business analysis across multiple Agile teams supporting the modernization of a mission-critical federal case management platform. You will guide Business Analysts, shape enterprise-level product backlogs, and ensure requirements remain aligned with customer objectives and delivery commitments. The position combines strategic leadership with hands-on work in requirements engineering, process analysis, journey mapping, and business process re-engineering. You will collaborate closely with Product Owners, architects, testers, developers, stakeholders, and customer representatives. The role offers the opportunity to influence modernization initiatives spanning complex legacy systems and new cloud-based solutions. Success requires strong analytical thinking, stakeholder management, communication, and the ability to bring structure to complex business and technical requirements. This is a fully remote position within a collaborative Agile environment, with a strong focus on continuous improvement and customer outcomes. Accountabilities - Lead and provide guidance to Business Analysts across multiple Scrum teams, ensuring consistent approaches to requirements, backlog management, and delivery. - Own the backlog decomposition strategy and maintain a healthy, prioritized product backlog with sufficient work prepared for upcoming sprints. - Partner with Product Owners and customer stakeholders to clarify requirements, manage scope, define objectives, and maintain alignment with product vision and roadmap. - Establish and enforce clear Definitions of Ready and Done across development teams, supporting consistent quality and delivery standards.

- Provide transparency into backlog health and decomposition through metrics, dashboards, and regular reporting. - Take a leadership role in Program Increment planning, coordinating dependencies, milestones, deliverables, sequencing, and timelines. - Identify, communicate, and mitigate risks, impediments, and delivery issues, following through until resolution. - Collaborate with architects, testers, Product Owners, developers, and stakeholders to ensure end-to-end alignment across technical and business deliverables. - Lead retrospectives and Communities of Practice for Business Analysts, gathering feedback, encouraging knowledge sharing, and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement. - Develop and maintain business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, technical documentation, process maps, narratives, and related delivery artifacts. - Facilitate stakeholder interviews, customer journey mapping, process-mapping sessions, and business analysis workshops with project teams and court personnel. - Analyze business processes to identify opportunities for standardization while documenting necessary variations, local rules, and differences across business environments. - Develop detailed process maps and supporting narratives using Microsoft Visio, maintaining documentation in an accessible and hierarchical structure. - Support gap analyses, workflow analysis, alternative solution assessments, business process modeling, wireframes, and storyboards as required. - Generate contractual deliverables and ensure they are completed within agreed scope, quality, and timelines. - Provide business analysis and technical support during Agile ceremonies and contribute journey-mapping, process-analysis, and customer-interview outputs to regular reporting. - Promote continuous improvement across the end-to-end analysis and delivery process, with a strong focus on product quality, requirements alignment, and customer satisfaction.