Business Systems Analyst IV

Job#: 3038202

Job Description:
Business Systems Analyst IV

Location: Maryland Heights, Missouri (Onsite hybrid M-TH)

Position Summary

The Lead Business Analyst serves as a working leader within the Field Operations Business Analysis team, providing day-to-day guidance, mentoring, and quality oversight for a team of 7 Business Analysts. This role combines hands-on business analysis expertise with people leadership, ensuring consistent delivery quality across BA deliverables while supporting team development and operational excellence. The Lead BA will also champion the adoption of AI-powered tools and modern SDLC practices to drive efficiency and innovation in how the team performs analysis work.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day guidance, coaching, and mentoring to a team of 7 Business Analysts.
• Conduct quality reviews of BA deliverables including BRDs, user stories, process flows, UI mockups, and gap analyses.
• Support career development, skills growth, and performance feedback for team members.
• Serve as a first point of escalation for analysts on methodology, approach, and stakeholder challenges.
• Reduce key-person dependency and improve team resiliency through knowledge sharing and cross-training.
• Collaborate with management on workload balancing, capacity planning, and team priorities.
• Perform senior-level business analysis on complex initiatives within Field Operations.
• Elicit, analyze, and document business requirements through stakeholder interviews, workshops, and research.
• Develop and review business requirements documents (BRDs), functional specifications, and user stories.
• Create and validate process flows, UI mockups, and gap analyses.
• Partner with product owners, developers, QA, and project managers throughout the SDLC.
• Lead the team's adoption and effective use of AI tools for business analysis activities.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Business Analysis (requirements elicitation, BRDs, user stories, process modeling, gap analysis).
• 2+ years of direct people management or team lead experience, including mentoring, coaching, and performance oversight.
• Strong experience with SDLC methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid).
• Demonstrated ability to review and provide constructive feedback on BA deliverables.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and business audiences.
• Experience with process flow tools, wireframing/mockup tools, and requirements management platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using AI tools (e.g., Amazon Kiro, Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot) to support business analysis work.
• Experience in telecommunications, cable, or field operations domains.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• CBAP, CCBA, or similar BA certification.
• Experience leading teams through process or tooling transitions.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, or similar collaboration platforms.

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