Lead Business Analyst Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Lead Business Analyst to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports;
- Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions;
- Working closely with the client and other project team members;
- Investigate and provide guidance to the development team to resolve application issues as needed;
- Performing requirements analysis;
- Work with UX researchers and designers to ensure features are user-centric;
- Acts as an expert source of business and application knowledge within their domain;
- Work on a daily basis with product owners and testers in a continuous integration environment, and be comfortable adjusting to evolving requirements;
- Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings;
- Performing user acceptance testing;
- Documenting and communicating the results of your efforts;
- Actively participate in scrum ceremonies – planning, estimation, demos, and retrospectives. Collaborate with other team members and product owners;
- Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management;
- Requirement Gathering and Analysis, Data Mining, System and Impact Analysis, Comprehensive Business Recommendations and Risk Analysis;
- May contribute to some financial analysis, including building business cases for new business initiatives (cost/benefit analysis).
Requirements:
- Ability to readily learn and operate effectively in other business technology applications required;
- Proficiency with MS Office preferred;
- 7-10 years of experience with software applications;
- Strong balance of business and technology acumen;
- Desire to work and thrive in a fast paced environment;
- Project Management skills – including estimating, scheduling and change management;
- Strong analytical skills to translate and analyze business requirements;
- Experience with system integrations a strong plus;
- Requires deep knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience;
- Typically, requires a college degree or equivalent experience and minimum 7 years of prior relevant experience;
- Experience writing user stories which include detailed acceptance criteria;
- Typically, viewed as a specialist within discipline; May have broad knowledge of project management;
- Healthcare experience preferred;
- Experience in a deadline-driven environment;
- Experience working with SQL Queries, Excel, Tableau, JIRA, Rally, Confluence, Postman API Calls, JSON, XML, HTML.