Lead Business Analyst

Lead Business Analyst

Pay Range: $65.45hr - $70.45hr

Job Description

The Lead Business Analyst interprets business needs and issues by gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating user and technical requirements. This role provides strategic oversight to analysts, facilitates requirement sessions, ensures successful user acceptance testing, identifies and resolves system issues, develops documentation, and monitors project status to ensure timely and high-quality deliverables.

Requirement/Must Have

• Ability to gather, elicit, create, analyze, document, and validate business and technical requirements.
• Ability to provide oversight, coaching, mentoring, and delegation to lower-level analysts.
• Ability to track and manage open issues and assist in planning resolutions.
• Ability to ensure design meets user requirements and support successful development sessions and design reviews.
• Ability to document, verify, and release user acceptance testing.
• Ability to identify and document system gaps, deficiencies, and coordinate resolutions.
• Ability to create stakeholder communications and provide training to end users.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve high-complexity technical, system, or business issues.
• Ability to develop and maintain clear and organized documentation.
• Ability to monitor project status, identify risks, and ensure timely deliverables.
• Ability to answer policy-related questions requiring research and collaboration.

Experience

• Progressive experience in business analysis, systems analysis, testing, or other analytical roles.

Responsibilities

• Interpret business needs and document user and technical requirements.
• Contribute to project planning and requirement development activities.
• Provide strategic direction, guidance, and mentorship to analysts.
• Facilitate requirement analysis and verification sessions.
• Track open issues and assist with resolution planning.
• Ensure design aligns with user requirements through development and design review sessions.
• Lead user acceptance testing activities, documentation, and release.
• Identify gaps in requirements and system performance and coordinate corrective actions.
• Create and distribute formal communication for stakeholders.
• Troubleshoot system, software, and process issues, and propose solutions or workarounds.
• Review, analyze, and document business systems and processes.
• Write clear and standardized documentation.
• Develop key project deliverables for high-complexity initiatives.
• Monitor and report project status, identify risks, and ensure deliverables meet timelines and quality standards.
• Coordinate projects from concept to implementation and manage new work requests.
• Research and provide answers to policy-related inquiries.

Should Have

• Ability to lead delivery of high-quality, effective, and timely deliverables.
• Strong knowledge of business analysis core competencies.
• Prior experience coaching and mentoring business analysts.

Skills

• Strong time-management and organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to organize stakeholder meetings.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to train and mentor others.

Qualification And Education

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Finance, or a related field.
• Master's degree (MBA) preferred.
• Additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.