Lead Business Analyst Montenegro or Remote
Lead Business Analyst Description
In this role, you will work with clients from the Europe/USA setting up a business analysis approach on projects of different scales and complexity, driving the BA team, and learning and sharing BA best practices in the company.
This position offers a remote setup with the flexibility to work from any location in Montenegro, whether it's your home, a well-equipped office in Podgorica, or sunny beaches of Budva.
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Responsibilities
- Elicit requirements (using different techniques)
- Define Business Goals, Needs and Objectives
- Identify improvement opportunities for product, process and a team
- Plan Business Analysis, including Business Analysis Information Management, Stakeholder Engagement & Communication (artifacts templates, documents structure, process flow, etc.) at multi-stream or large-scale projects
- Create stakeholder engagement approach and monitor in order to keep them actively involved in the delivery process
- Translate business needs into requirements (Functional, Non-functional, Transition)
- Choose new or adapt existing requirement's documentation framework to project needs
- Select requirements change management approach and ensure the correct level of traceability to support it
- Align solution with business Goals / Needs / Objectives
- Plan BA activities and facilitate during the Discovery phase
- Manage project/product backlog
- Advise and align requirements prioritization approach at all levels
- Play BA Team Lead role in the project
- Conduct Technical Interviews for BA positions
- Mentor or coach other BAs within the project team or organization
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant BA experience
- Skills to acquire new information about the project, product and domain quickly from different sources
- Expertise in working with different types of requirements (e.g., business, user, system, transition requirements etc.)
- Ability to effectively guide BA activities across all delivery phases (e.g., elicitation, requirements management etc.)
- Ability to effectively guide elicitation activities at multi-stream or large-scale projects
- Skills to identify and resolve inconsistencies in project/product requirements
- Experience in working with Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
- Expertise in planning Business Analysis Approach on the project and facilitation of related communication
- Ability to create/adapt a set of templates to be used in the project
- Technical background: Understanding of how systems work, principles of system integration, ability to produce integration documentation, knowledge of database fundamentals, and an understanding of cloud computing basics
- Experience in creating diagrams (e.g., in UML, BPMN)
- Expertise in project/product scope management
- Ability to accurately assesses project/business analysis risks and act accordingly
- Experience in BA efforts estimation (including large scale projects)
- Advanced knowledge of at least one requirements management tool (Jira, Azure DevOps, etc.)
- Advanced communication and negotiation skills
- Strong analytical, problem solving and synthesizing skills
- Product mindset
- English Level: B2+
We Offer
- Engineering Heritage: Best-in-class experts sharing a culture of excellence and tackling complex engineering challenges for over 30 years
- Advanced Tech Stack: Innovative projects where you can apply or enhance your expertise in Cloud, Data, AI and other emerging technologies
- World-Class Clients: Work closely with 295+ of Forbes Global 2000 on creating disruptive solutions that make a global impact
- Professional Growth: Exceptional support for career development with comprehensive in-house resources for upskilling or reskilling
- GenAI-X Global Community: A network of AI enthusiasts within EPAM, dedicated to exploring and sharing AI innovations
- Entrepreneurial Culture: If you're passionate and dedicated to improving business transformation, we provide the support you need to bring your ideas to life
- Hybrid Setup: The flexibility to work from any location in Montenegro, whether it's your home or our dynamic office
- Other Benefits: Corporate health insurance and the possibility of buying private health insurance for the family at a corporate price
About EPAM
- As consultants, designers, architects, engineers and trainers, at EPAM we focus on building long-term partnerships with our clients, enabling them to reimagine their businesses through a digital lens. We help our clients become faster, more agile and more adaptive enterprises, by delivering solutions through best-in-class engineering, strategy, design, consulting, education and innovation services