Lead Business Analyst - Agile, Data Focused

- Lead, mentor, and nurture a team of Business Analysts, promoting accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning - Provide oversight, prioritize tasks, and manage workloads across multiple BA resources and initiatives - Develop and enforce best practices, standards, and methodologies for business analysis deliverables - Serve as the escalation point for intricate requirements, stakeholder conflicts, and decision-making - Define and implement business analysis frameworks, governance models, and standards for effective requirements management - Establish procedures for requirements reviews, approvals, change control, and prioritization - Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of business analysis - Manage business analysis planning to ensure alignment with project goals and organizational strategies - Cultivate strong relationships with business and technical stakeholders throughout the organization - Facilitate high-impact workshops, executive-level discussions, and sessions for cross-functional alignment - Influence decision-making and build consensus among diverse stakeholder groups - Ensure transparent communication and mutual understanding of business needs and solution approaches - Oversee the complete requirements lifecycle, including elicitation, documentation, validation, and approval - Ensure traceability, consistency, and alignment of requirements across various initiatives - Review and validate complex business and technical requirements for quality and completeness - Assist teams in defining solution options and aligning requirements with business value - Lead business process analysis to identify optimization, automation, and transformation opportunities - Promote alignment between business needs and technology solutions, including vendor SaaS platforms - Ensure that delivered solutions comply with regulatory, operational, and business requirements - Encourage the reuse of requirements, artifacts, and best practices across projects - Collaborate with Project Managers, Product Owners, QA, and Development teams to guarantee successful delivery - Support Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies within the SDLC - Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and impacts related to requirements and scope - Provide strategic insights and reporting to leadership concerning project and BA performance