Job Description - Business Analyst Team Lead
Job Description - Business Analyst Team Lead
Job Description - Business Analyst Team Lead
Job Description – Business Analyst Team Lead
Company: Blueberry Systems, LLC
Location: Greenwood Village, CO
Job title: Business Analyst Team Lead
Department: Information Technology
Reports to: VP of Technology
Consults with: Works closely with developers, project management, quality assurance,
development, implementation, sales, business operations, and customer service
teams
Type of Employment: Full Time
FLSA Status Exempt (Fair Labor Standards Act)
Travel Requirements: Occasional, minimal
Position Summary:
The Business Analyst Team Lead works with stakeholders from all business units and related third
parties to define and document business processes and software requirements for technology
initiatives. The Business Analyst Team Lead works directly with and provides support to the sales,
implementation, business operations, development, quality assurance, and customer service teams. As
Team Lead, this position has additional supervisory and managerial responsibilities.
Outcomes:
Job Description by Responsibility – Business Analyst
Develop, manage and collaborate on standard practices and processes within the SDLC
framework.
Leverage technology to help reduce manual tasks and continually improve on the company’s
requirements process.
Build and maintain lasting relationships with all business stakeholders.
Become a mentor to other business analysts; building a sense of community within the
team.
Actively promote the value of Business Analysis throughout the organization.
Prepare periodic reports on project status, progress, risks, deadlines and resource
requirements.
Job Description by Responsibility – Team Lead
Support project objectives.
Provide direction, support and feedback within the Business Analysis team.
Perform team lead duties including scheduling, reporting to management, supervising
analysts, delegating and prioritizing workloads.
Resolve issues within and across teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Leadership and Results
Embody the company’s philosophy document – its purpose statement and core convictions
Drive results toward Compelling Ambitions, stated Strategic and Tactical Plans
Initiate, develop, and support the business planning process of the company
Deliver the highest quality service through performance and results
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Job Description – Business Analyst Team Lead
Supervisory and Managerial Responsibilities
Overall leadership of the Business Analysis team
Delegation, organization and priority management
Mentoring, team building, goal setting and performance reviews
Team performance measurements, and status and productivity reporting
Conflict resolution
Specific Work Behaviors
Guide and manage work efforts of the Business Analysis team
Research, review and recommend technical tools and products that promote an effective
and efficient team.
Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys,
site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and
workflow analysis.
Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts,
decompose high‐level information into details, abstract up from low‐level information to a
general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze
information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as
needed: functional requirements, business requirements document, use cases, GUI, screen
and interface designs.
Utilize experience in using enterprise‐wide requirements definition and management
systems and methodologies.
Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
Work independently with users and under direction of project managers to define concepts.
Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully
execute their plans.
Demonstrate strong analytical and product management skill, including a thorough
understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into
application and operational requirements.
Effectively communicate verbally and in written form to interact professionally with a
diverse group, including executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
Serve as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers)
and the software development team through which requirements flow.
Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural
language.
Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and
analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.
Skills and Qualifications: (mandatory)
Education and Experience: Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work
experience.
Supervisory Experience: Minimum 3 years
Technical Proficiencies: Experience as Business Analyst or Project Manager
Communications Skills: Ability to communicate effectively in verbal and written form with
internal teams and management, and with customers.
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Job Description – Business Analyst Team Lead
Other Competencies or Skills: Ability to meet deadlines, work within and across teams, and
with external customers
Travel Requirements: There may be occasional travel, but minimal.
Off hours Availability: May require occasional extended hours on evenings or weekends in
support of project deadlines, product deployments, customer launch schedules, etc.
Skills Preferences: (helpful but not strictly required)
Mortgage Industry experience
Microsoft TFS (Team Foundation Server)
Agile SDLC experience
Requirements management and design skills
Workflow and use case design experience (Visio, Rational, UML, Signavio, etc.)
Pre‐hire Requirements
Must be willing to submit to background checks including identity, criminal background,
personal references, education and employment verifications, drug test.
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