Lead Business Analyst
Maryland Heights, MO
Category: Business Analysis
Industry: Communications
Reference ID: JN -062026-107402
Date Posted: 06/10/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/GPUlTb
Description:
Hybrid 4 onsite in Maryland Heights, MO
Our client seeks a Lead Business Analyst to serve as a working leader for a team of seven Business Analysts within Field Operations. The role combines hands-on analysis with people leadership to drive delivery quality, team development, and operational excellence. The Lead BA will champion adoption of AI-powered tools and modern SDLC practices to improve efficiency and consistency across BA deliverables.
Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $60.00 to $68.00/hr. w2
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 BRDs, functional specifications, and user stories.
- Create and validate process flows, UI mockups, and gap analyses.
- Ensure BA artifacts meet quality standards and align with project objectives and business needs.
- 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.
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI in requirements analysis, documentation, mockup creation, and gap analysis.
- Help define and refine AI-augmented workflows within the team's SDLC process.
- Stay current on emerging AI capabilities relevant to business analysis and share knowledge with the team.
Experience Requirements:
- 7+ years of Business Analysis experience including requirements elicitation, BRDs, user stories, process modeling, and gap analysis.
- 2+ years of people leadership or team lead experience with mentoring, coaching, and performance oversight.
- Strong experience with SDLC methodologies including Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid.
- Proven ability to review and provide constructive feedback on BA deliverables.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and business audiences.
- Experience with process flow tools, wireframing or mockup tools, and requirements management platforms.
- Preferred: Experience using AI tools such as Amazon Kiro, Gemini, ChatGPT, or Copilot for BA work.
- Preferred: Experience in telecommunications, cable, or field operations domains.
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: CBAP, CCBA, or similar BA certification.
- Preferred: Experience leading teams through process or tooling transitions.
- Preferred: Familiarity with Jira and Confluence or similar platforms.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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