Business Analyst Team Lead

Role Description

This individual will lead a team of Business Analysts and will be responsible for planning and conducting a wide range of business analysis tasks, including:

• Analyzing client requests
• Authoring requirements
• Acting as a liaison between clients and internal technical resources
• Working with external vendors
• Driving the successful completion of internal initiatives

Principal Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate a team of Business Analysts supporting FEI’s Blue Compass product
• Approximately 60% functional leadership and delivery oversight, 40% hands-on business analysis work
• Direct and prioritize work for multiple Business Analysts across concurrent initiatives
• Provide day-to-day guidance, oversight, and mentoring to ensure consistent application of requirements standards and best practices
• Collaborate with the Behavioral Health Leadership team from a strategic perspective to support product vision:
• Maintain a cohesive, shared understanding of vision across delivery teams
• Ensure stakeholders remain informed and aligned
• Validate solution feasibility relative to business objectives and constraints
• Understand the role of the system within the broader enterprise landscape and provide recommendations regarding system evolution and initiative interdependencies
• Own and manage the BA team backlog in collaboration with Scrum Masters, Client Executives, Product Management, and Project Managers
• Ensure a single, prioritized backlog aligned to product vision, features, and Program Increment (PI) objectives
• Validate that user stories and acceptance criteria support intended business outcomes
• Participate in solution demos to confirm delivered functionality meets requirements and expectations
• Work with Release Management and QA leadership to prioritize product needs
• Define and communicate project constraints
• Identify areas of flexibility to optimize sequencing of deliverables
• Determine timing and sequencing of features and enhancements across iterations
• Provide delivery-stage oversight to ensure requirements fidelity
• Participate in iteration and PI ceremonies as an engaged and contributing team member
• Decompose features into well-defined, prioritized user stories and enablers
• Collaborate with system architects and engineering teams to understand, prioritize, and sequence technical enablers
• Participate in program backlog refinement and preparation for PI Planning events
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and contribute to feature definition for future PI Planning cycles
• Work with Behavioral Health Leadership Team, Client Executives, Project Managers, and IT governance to support release planning and ensure required environments are available
• Participate in the Preliminary Project Planning activities including intake, refinement of project requests, and development of business cases and concept proposals
• Produce project feasibility and cost benefit analysis reports to support executive decision-making
• Transition initiatives from idea or concept through preliminary planning into chartered projects
• Assist with project scope definition and development of management or delivery plans
• Communicate requirements development and management processes to project teams and stakeholders
• Analyze business activities to determine whether new or enhanced IT solutions will improve outcomes or productivity
• Elicit, document, and validate current and future-state business models and workflows with subject matter experts
• Provide solution recommendations aligned with business needs and technical constraints
• Create and present cost specifications and impact analyses using appropriate analytical tools
• Identify and define initial performance measures to assess project success
• Deliver well-organized, informative presentations to technical and non-technical audiences
• Provide post-implementation support to validate outcomes and resolve outstanding gaps
• Attend internal staff meetings as requested
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, with demonstrated experience leading analysis efforts for complex initiatives or products
• At least three (3) years of experience working within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements through implementation and validation
• Prior hands-on experience with the following domains:
• Requirements elicitation and definition
• Requirements planning and management
• Gap analysis
• Requirements documentation
• Requirements verification and validation
• Conducting feasibility studies
• Preparing business cases
• Solution assessment and validation
• Experience leading day-to-day business analysis activities, including task assignment, prioritization, and peer review of deliverables
• Ability to communicate impediments, progress, and requirements across program, team, and customer contexts
• Strong coordination, organizational, and facilitation skills to manage cross-functional dependencies
• Technical foundation in IT process management, development, testing, project management and/or business analysis
• Solid understanding of current and emerging IT products, services, processes, and methodologies, along with a continuing understanding of business functions and processes
• Content authority to refine, prioritize, and accept requirements and user stories to deliver maximum value to the customer
• Enforce established processes for requirements gathering, development, and user acceptance testing (UAT)
• A Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline or three (3) years of equivalent experience
• Working knowledge of the Business Analyst Book of Knowledge (BABOK)

Preferred Experience

• 5+ years of experience working within the SDLC
• 2-3 years in a Business Analyst Team Lead or senior BA role providing delivery leadership and mentoring
• Master’s Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline
• Prior knowledge in healthcare software or regulated industry environments
• Prior experience creating and maintaining use cases and workflow documentation supporting system design, configuration, or customization efforts
• Experience leading or supporting initiatives where SDLC, Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid methodologies were employed
• Experience working closely with Product Owners, Project Managers, and technical leads to support estimation, planning, and backlog refinement
• Professional Business Analysis or related certification, such as:
• IIBA CBAP ®, CCBA ®, or ECBA ®
• PMI-PBA ®
• Scrum Master (CSM, PSM) or equivalent Agile certification
• Equivalent certifications may be considered if the candidate demonstrates comparable business analysis competencies, experience level, and practical application aligned with recognized industry frameworks (e.g., BABOK®, Agile Practice Guide)

Location

Remote

Status

Full time position with full company benefits