Overview
$$65/hr on C2C or $55/hr on W2
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - 5 month(s)
Skills
JIRA
DevOps
Azure
Testing
Job Details
Job Title: Lead Business Analyst
Position Type: Contract
Location: Richmond, VA (Onsite)
Interview Mode: In-person
Note: Candidate must reside in Richmond, VA
Overview
The Lead Business Analyst is a strategic, people-centric role responsible for enhancing the quality, consistency, and impact of the Business Analysis function. This position blends mentorship, analytical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-value solutions across the enterprise.
You will lead a team of 8 10 Business Analysts, define BA standards, and ensure high-quality requirements, efficient processes, and effective communication between business and technical teams.
Key Responsibilities
1. Business Analysis Standards & Requirements
Establish, promote, and maintain consistent BA methodologies, templates, and documentation standards.
- Ensure high-quality artifacts such as BRDs, RTMs, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and data requirements.
- Oversee requirement validation to ensure alignment with business and technical needs.
- Review and provide constructive feedback on BA deliverables to minimize rework and improve solution quality.
- Ensure timely completion of BA artifacts to support project milestones.
- Promote robust testing approaches covering functional, non-functional, and data requirements.
2. Collaboration, Facilitation & Stakeholder Alignment
- Build strong partnerships across business units, IT teams, vendors, and key stakeholders.
- Serve as a liaison between business and technical teams to ensure clarity and alignment.
- Facilitate workshops, requirement sessions, and cross-functional discussions to drive decisions.
- Support change management efforts through proactive and consistent communication.
- Partner with product owners, project managers, and leadership to prioritize requirements, mitigate risks, and maintain project momentum.
3. Communication & Presentation
- Demonstrate exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Translate complex business needs into clear, concise, and actionable documentation.
- Tailor communication for executives, technical teams, and end users.
- Present findings, recommendations, and updates to senior leadership with confidence.
- Produce high-quality, structured, and accurate documentation.
4. Team Leadership, Coaching & Continuous Improvement
- Mentor and support Business Analysts to strengthen skills and analytical capabilities.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements and enhanced team performance.
- Recommend and implement enhancements to BA practices and methodologies.
- Ensure alignment with leadership and team members before introducing practice changes.
- Remove roadblocks, provide direction, and actively address risks affecting BA effectiveness.
- Lead by example with professionalism, accountability, and commitment to quality.
Qualifications Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, or a related field
- 7+ years of Business Analyst experience, including 3+ years mentoring or leading analysts
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Strong expertise in requirement elicitation, documentation, and process modeling
- Proven experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum and/or Kanban)
- Excellent facilitation and stakeholder engagement capabilities
- Experience working with enterprise systems or multi-module applications
- Proficiency in BA and ALM tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, etc.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills
- Analytical and process-improvement mindset
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and facilitation
- High attention to detail and strong commitment to quality
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and support concurrent projects
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and process modeling tools
Required/Desired Skills
| Skill | Required /Desired | Amount | Actual years of Experience |
| Business Analysis - Expert level knowledge in business analysis functions (requirements, stakeholder management, testing, etc) | Required | 10 | |
| Leadership - Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with experience leading and guiding experienced teams. | Required | 7 | |
| Communication - Effectively conveying ideas to both technical and non-technical teams at various levels of an organization | Required | 7 | |
| Stakeholder Management - Ablity to build and maintain working relationships with key stakeholders within the organization | Required | 7 | |
| Support - Guide and help experienced professionals in achieving their goals and support in removing obsticles. | Required | 7 |
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