Responsibilities:
- 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.
Requirements:
Must have:
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.
- Over 8 years of Business Analysis experience, including senior-level responsibilities.
- At least 2 years of experience in a leadership, team lead, or management role (direct or indirect).
- Extensive knowledge in requirements lifecycle management, process modeling, and stakeholder engagement.
- Proven track record in leading large, complex initiatives within regulated environments.
- Experience within SDLC frameworks (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid).
Company:
At Axis Technical Group, we are a premier Information Technology Services firm based in California, with a global presence. Since our inception in 2002, we have been a trusted technology advisor to leading firms in the mortgage, title, healthcare, and financial services sectors. Our dynamic global team is committed to delivering exceptional technical and business expertise at a competitive cost. We pride ourselves on combining the expansive skills of a global consulting firm with a personalized, solutions-oriented approach. We are currently seeking a Business Analyst Lead/Manager for a contract leadership role anticipated to last 1-2 years, with the potential for contract-to-hire conversion based on performance and business needs, based in Orange with a hybrid work model.