VDOT Lead Business Analyst
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Job Location:
Richmond, VA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
3 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Summary:
The Lead Business Analyst role is a senior position focused on leading and improving the Business Analysis function. The role involves establishing standards mentoring other Business Analysts ensuring high-quality requirements and facilitating effective communication between business and technical teams.
The Lead Business Analyst role is a senior position focused on leading and improving the Business Analysis function. The role involves establishing standards mentoring other Business Analysts ensuring high-quality requirements and facilitating effective communication between business and technical teams.
Location:Richmond Virginia United States
Responsibilities:
- Establish and maintain standardized BA practices templates and documentation.
- Ensure high-quality requirements artifacts (BRDs RTMs user stories acceptance criteria process flows).
- Review and validate requirements to ensure business and technical needs are met.
- Provide feedback on BA deliverables to improve quality and reduce rework.
- Ensure timely delivery of BA artifacts to support project milestones.
- Promote testing approaches covering functional non-functional and data requirements.
- Serve as a liaison between business and technical teams.
- Facilitate workshops requirement sessions and cross-functional discussions.
- Support change management through clear and consistent communication.
- Partner with project managers product owners and leadership to prioritize work and mitigate risks.
- Translate complex business needs into clear actionable documentation.
- Present findings recommendations and updates to leadership.
- Tailor communication for executives technical teams and end users.
- Mentor and coach Business Analysts to support skill development and performance.
- Identify and implement improvements to BA practices and processes.
- Remove obstacles and proactively address risks impacting team effectiveness.
- Lead by example with accountability professionalism and quality focus.
- Establish and maintain standardized BA practices templates and documentation.
- Ensure high-quality requirements artifacts (BRDs RTMs user stories acceptance criteria process flows).
- Review and validate requirements to ensure business and technical needs are met.
- Provide feedback on BA deliverables to improve quality and reduce rework.
- Ensure timely delivery of BA artifacts to support project milestones.
- Promote testing approaches covering functional non-functional and data requirements.
- Serve as a liaison between business and technical teams.
- Facilitate workshops requirement sessions and cross-functional discussions.
- Support change management through clear and consistent communication.
- Partner with project managers product owners and leadership to prioritize work and mitigate risks.
- Translate complex business needs into clear actionable documentation.
- Present findings recommendations and updates to leadership.
- Tailor communication for executives technical teams and end users.
- Mentor and coach Business Analysts to support skill development and performance.
- Identify and implement improvements to BA practices and processes.
- Remove obstacles and proactively address risks impacting team effectiveness.
- Lead by example with accountability professionalism and quality focus.
Required Skills & Certifications:
- Bachelors degree in business Information Technology or a related field.
- 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst.
- 3 years of experience mentoring or leading Business Analysts.
- Strong experience with requirements elicitation documentation and process modelling.
- Proven experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum and/or Kanban).
- Proficiency with BA and ALM tools (Jira Azure DevOps or similar).
- Excellent written verbal and facilitation skills.
- Bachelors degree in business Information Technology or a related field.
- 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst.
- 3 years of experience mentoring or leading Business Analysts.
- Strong experience with requirements elicitation documentation and process modelling.
- Proven experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum and/or Kanban).
- Proficiency with BA and ALM tools (Jira Azure DevOps or similar).
- Excellent written verbal and facilitation skills.
Preferred Skills & Certifications:
- Experience defining BA standards or supporting BA Centers of Excellence.
- Experience with data governance data integration or data quality initiatives.
- Familiarity with testing methodologies and ALM or automated testing tools.
- Experience defining BA standards or supporting BA Centers of Excellence.
- Experience with data governance data integration or data quality initiatives.
- Familiarity with testing methodologies and ALM or automated testing tools.
Special Considerations:
- In-person interview required.
- In-person interview required.
Scheduling:
- Duration: 05 months.
- Duration: 05 months.
Key Skills
- SQL
- Agile
- Business Analysis
- Visio
- Waterfall
- Business Process Modeling
- Requirements Gathering
- User Acceptance Testing
- Business requirements
- SDLC
- Systems Analysis
- Data Analysis Skills
