Lead Business Analyst

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Summary

In this role, you will lead the analysis and design of business solutions that align with organizational strategy and product goals. You will partner with Product Management, Business Operations, and Development teams to shape user stories, manage product backlogs, and translate business needs into actionable requirements. You will also mentor and guide other analysts, ensuring consistency, quality, and excellence across projects while driving process improvements and supporting strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as liaison between end users, product management, and development to gather, analyze, and document business requirements.
• Translate business needs into detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritized product backlogs across interrelated systems.
• Plan and lead stakeholder collaboration sessions to understand business processes and align on functional requirements.
• Lead backlog prioritization, ensuring alignment across dependent systems and stories.
• Lead Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, refinement sessions, and Scrum of Scrums.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Developers, and QA teams from project inception through delivery.
• Oversee issue triage and stakeholder inquiries during UAT to ensure resolution and transparency.
• Conduct gap analyses and identify cost-effective, data-driven solutions that address business needs.
• Write and analyze SQL queries to validate data, resolve discrepancies, and support analytical accuracy.
• Lead efforts to establish and maintain data integrity, defining validation rules and success metrics.
• Develop and manage weekly knowledge mapping to ensure data completeness and reliability for end users.
• Partner with business and technical leaders to optimize processes and enhance customer experience.
• Identify opportunities to leverage automation, emerging technologies, and AI to increase analytical efficiency.
• Mentor and coach Business Analysts across domains in Agile best practices, requirements definition, and process improvement.
• Partner with Product Leadership to align analytical outcomes with strategic business goals and measurable ROI.

Qualifications

Estimated Hiring Range

The current salary range for this role is $102,400.00 to $179,000.00. This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan. Benefits information available at http : / / www.vizientinc.com / about-us / careers.

Equal Opportunity Employer : Females / Minorities / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.

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