Chief Business Analyst

We are seeking a Chief Business Analyst to lead requirements and delivery support across a cross-functional application development team. You will align business and technical stakeholders, drive traceability from discovery through go-live, and support UAT and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery and document business and functional requirements
• Define success criteria and acceptance criteria for initiatives
• Translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements for technical teams
• Coordinate alignment across business, product, and technical stakeholders
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings to clarify scope, gather feedback, and manage expectations
• Track delivery progress, KPIs, risks, dependencies, and action items
• Provide concise status reporting with business-focused insights
• Plan and coordinate UAT activities, scenarios, schedules, and facilitation
• Document UAT outcomes and obtain business sign-off prior to go-live
• Validate releases post-deployment and confirm requirements fulfillment
• Maintain requirements traceability through design, development, testing, and deployment
• Create process flows, user guides, and project artifacts to support change adoption
• Document process changes, lessons learned, and best practices for continuous improvement

Requirements

• 7+ years of business analysis experience on software development initiatives
• Advanced stakeholder management experience across business and technical groups
• Strong requirements lifecycle management skills with traceability from design to deployment
• Proven project tracking skills for risks, dependencies, KPIs, and delivery status
• Strong data analysis skills to produce business-focused insights and metrics reporting
• Hands-on large language models (LLM) experience using tools like ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot for analysis and documentation acceleration
• Excellent English skills (B2, Upper-Intermediate) for stakeholder communication and documentation

Nice to have

• Business analysis certification (CBAP, PMI-PBA)
• Project management certification (PMP) or Scrum certification (CSM)
• System integration or modernization project experience
• Regulated or compliance-driven environment experience
• Change management framework experience

Benefits

• International projects with top brands
• Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
• Healthcare benefits
• Employee financial programs
• Paid time off and sick leave
• Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
• Global career opportunities
• Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
• EPAM Employee Groups
• Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn