Lead Business Analyst

News Corporation; Gurgaon; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Meals on site

Transport to work

Flexible leave

Health insurance

Wellbeing programs

Learning opportunities

Job summary

REA Group in India is seeking a Lead Business Analyst to define and document detailed requirements with product management, ensuring they are understood by delivery teams in an agile environment. You will translate business needs into system requirements and collaborate across squads to shape the complete solution architecture.

You will work on extensive requirements elicitation, stakeholder collaboration, and data analysis, with emphasis on testable user stories and advancing product delivery

Qualifications

• Extensive requirements elicitation experience from multiple stakeholders.
• Strong collaboration across technical, product and commercial domains.
• Experience in SQL and data analysis.
• Domain expertise in Banking and Financial Services (BFSI) desirable.
• Ability to test features and shift-left testing throughout the lifecycle.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Gather and translate business needs into system requirements with testable user stories.
• Collaborate with development team to test features and enable shift-left testing.
• Analyze business processes and map workflows using process maps and story boards.
• Interpret complex business needs into data specifications for technical solutions.
• Ensure requirements are understood by delivery teams through kickoff and communication.
• Work with squads to shape complete solution architecture.
• Support legacy migration activity and production issue resolution.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder management

SQL

Data analysis

Agile methods

Communication

Tools

BigQuery

RESTful API Design

Tableau

GraphQL

Job description

What the role is all about:

As Lead BA, you will be responsible for defining and documenting detailed requirements with product management, ensuring they are well understood by delivery teams, and providing regular analysis and support of our growing system and product footprint.

You will play a key role in the solution design and delivery of products and services in a collaborative team environment using agile methods. The role requires excellent

communication and collaborative involvement through all stages of product development – from concept, design and requirements through inception, specification, development, testing, release and retirement.

While no two days are likely to be the same, your typical responsibilities will include:

• Understanding complex business landscapes and clearly articulating business needs from a varied group of stakeholders.

• Extensive requirements gathering from product managers, analysts, tech leads and other business stakeholders and translating business needs into system or product requirements with clear, concise and testable user stories & process flows to ensure use cases are met.

• Collaborate with the development team to test features and implement shift left testing practices, ensuring early and frequent testing throughout the development lifecycle.

• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret complex business needs and translate them into requirements and data specifications for technical solutions

• Ensuring these requirements are well understood by delivery teams through story kick offs and constant communication.

• Analyzing business processes, workflows and user journeys using techniques such as process maps, value stream maps and story boards.

• Identifying and communicating any requirement dependencies, issues or risks identified through the analysis process.

• Work closely with the Engineering manager to run agile scrum ceremonies and produce agile artefacts.

• Contributing to the team's understanding and prioritization during sprint planning meetings.

• Participating in estimation sessions by describing the requirements and clarifying any questions raised.

• Working closely with other squads across consumer and customer groups, and the wider business to shape the direction of the complete solution architecture.

• Using your analytical skills to support the team’s activities including legacy migration activity, service delivery and system & customer production issues.

Who we’re looking for:

• Lead BA with 5+ years of experience, with the ability to understand complex business landscapes and clearly articulate business needs from a varied group of stakeholders.

• Extensive requirements elicitation experience, gathering requirements from product managers, analysts, tech leads and other business stakeholders and translating business needs into system or product requirements with clear, concise and testable user stories & process flows.

• Strong collaboration skills, and the ability to work with varied stakeholders across technical, product and commercial domains.

• Experience in SQL and data analysis.

• Domain expertise in Banking and Financial Services (BFSI) is highly desirable.

• Ability to collaborate with the development team to test features and implement shift-left testing practices, ensuring early and frequent testing throughout the development lifecycle.

• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret complex business needs and translate them into requirements and data specifications for technical solutions.

• Great communication, ensuring requirements are well understood by delivery teams through story kickoffs and constant communication.

Bonus points for:

• Big query, Restful API Design, Tableau and GraphQL.

What we offer:

• A hybrid and flexible approach to working.

• Transport options to help you get to and from work, including home pick-up and drop-off.

• Meals provided on site in our office.

• Flexible leave options including parental leave, family care leave, and celebration leave.

• Insurance for you and your immediate family members.

• Programs to support mental, emotional, financial, and physical health & wellbeing.

• Continuous learning and development opportunities to further your technical expertise.

The values we live by:

• Our values are at the core of how we operate, treat each other, and make decisions. We believe that how we work is equally important as what we do to achieve our goals.

• This commitment is at the heart of everything we do, from the way we interact with colleagues to the way we serve our customers and communities.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

• We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking- be it cultural and ethnic backgrounds, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other identity or lived experience. We know diverse teams are critical to maintaining our success and driving new business opportunities.

• If you've got the skills, dedication and enthusiasm to learn but don't Necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch.

REA Group in India:

You might already recognize our logo. The REA brand does have an existing presence in India. In fact, we set up our new tech hub in Gurugram to be their neighbors!

REA Group holds a controlling interesting REA India Pte. Ltd., operator of established brands Housing.com and Makaan.com, two of the country’s leading digital property marketplaces.

Through our close connection to REA India, we've seen first-hand the incredible talent the country has to offer, and the huge opportunity to expand our global workforce. Our Cyber City Tech Center is an extension of REA Group; a satellite office working directly with our Australia HQ on local projects and tech delivery

All our brands, across the globe, connect regularly, learn from each other and collaborate on shared value initiatives.