Lead Business Analyst

Roles & Responsibilities : What you'll do : - Lead a team of business analysts in our Hyderabad office - shaping solutions, setting the standard for delivery, and turning complex business problems into clear outcomes. - Lead, mentor, and manage a team of Business Analysts - setting direction, reviewing work, and building capability across the team. - Own requirement gathering, analysis, and documentation for key initiatives, ensuring quality and consistency of BA deliverables. - Partner with senior stakeholders to translate business needs into functional specifications, user stories, and process flows. - Work closely with product, engineering, and delivery teams to bring solutions to life and remove blockers. - Define and drive BA best practices, standards, templates, and process improvements. - Oversee testing, validation, and stakeholder sign-off across workstreams. - Champion data-informed decision-making and clear, actionable communication. Ideal Candidate : - Strong Lead Business Analyst Profile: Must have team leadership experience. - Mandatory Experience: 6+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, including team lead or people-management experience. - Proven ability to lead and mentor analysts and coordinate work across multiple stakeholders. - Owned requirement gathering, analysis, and documentation end-to-end for key initiatives. - Experience translating business needs into functional specifications, user stories, and process flows with senior stakeholders. - Experience defining and driving BA best practices, standards, templates, and process improvements. - Experience overseeing testing, validation, and stakeholder sign-off across workstreams. - Mandatory Skills: Strong requirement-gathering, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills. - Excellent communication, analytical, and leadership abilities, with a data-informed decision-making approach. - Mandatory Company Background: B2B Tech consulting/B2B Tech services/AI Tech consulting companies. - Mandatory Shift: Must be willing to support calls during EST hours (this is an EST-based project). Preferred Skills : - Tools : Hands-on experience with Unqork or other low-code / no-code platforms. - Domain : Background in the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services & Insurance) sector.