Lead Business Analyst

We are seeking a Lead Business Analyst to drive end-to-end requirements and stakeholder alignment for a software product team while enabling smooth delivery tracking and UAT. You will translate business needs into clear, testable outcomes across the full lifecycle and help teams deliver high-quality releases.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation across initiatives
• Define success criteria and acceptance criteria to ensure measurable outcomes
• Translate business needs into clear functional requirements for technical teams
• Coordinate stakeholders across business, product, and engineering to align priorities
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings to clarify needs, collect feedback, and manage expectations
• Track delivery progress, KPIs, and project metrics and provide business-focused status updates
• Identify and track risks, issues, dependencies, and action items and drive resolution
• Coordinate UAT planning, scenarios, scheduling, and execution with stakeholders
• Document UAT outcomes and obtain business sign-off prior to go-live
• Support post-deployment validation to confirm expected outcomes
• Maintain requirements traceability from discovery through deployment and validation
• Create and maintain process and change documentation for new features and enhancements
• Use LLM-based tools to analyze documentation, extract insights, and accelerate requirements and documentation work

Requirements

• 5+ years of business analysis experience on software development projects
• Proven leadership experience coordinating cross-functional stakeholder groups
• Strong project delivery support skills including tracking risks, dependencies, and action items
• Advanced requirements lifecycle management skills including success criteria and acceptance criteria definition
• Strong data analysis skills to derive insights from technical and business inputs
• Excellent documentation skills for requirements, workflows, process flows, and user guides
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2)
• Strong communication skills to facilitate alignment between business and technical teams
• High attention to detail to ensure documentation accuracy and quality

Nice to have

• Business Analysis certification (CBAP, PMI-PBA)
• Project Management certification (PMP, CSM)
• Experience with system integration or modernization projects
• Experience working on complex enterprise software products
• Experience in regulated or compliance-driven environments

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