Lead Business Analyst

Job Summary

Product Ownership & Strategy

• Own and define the product vision, roadmap, and priorities aligned with business goals
• Translate business needs into clear product requirements and user stories
• Act as the single point of accountability for product scope and value delivery
• Balance business priorities, technical constraints, and customer impact

Agile & Backlog Management

• Create, refine, and prioritize the product backlog
• Write clear epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Lead backlog grooming, sprint planning, and sprint reviews
• Ensure the development team clearly understands requirements and priorities
• Accept or reject deliverables based on defined acceptance criteria

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with business users, architects, UX, and engineering teams
• Engage with client stakeholders to gather feedback and manage expectations
• Provide regular product status updates to leadership and governance forums
• Manage scope changes and prioritize trade‑offs effectively

Delivery & Value Realization

• Ensure timely delivery of features with measurable business value
• Define and track KPIs, success metrics, and outcomes
• Support UAT, releases, and post‑production enhancements
• Continuously improve product based on data, feedback, and usage trends

Governance & Documentation

• Ensure adherence to HCLTech delivery, quality, and compliance standards
• Maintain product documentation, functional specifications, and release notes
• Contribute to best practices for Agile and Product Management within the account

Required Skills & Experience

Functional & Agile Skills

• Strong experience as a Product Owner in Agile / Scrum teams
• Hands‑on experience with backlog management tools (JIRA, Azure DevOps, etc.)
• Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, and SDLC
• Experience writing detailed user stories and acceptance criteria
• Ability to prioritize based on business value and delivery impact

Domain & Technical Understanding

• Experience working with digital / enterprise technology solutions
• Ability to work closely with engineering teams and understand technical trade‑offs
• Experience in data, cloud, application modernization, or enterprise platforms is a plus

Stakeholder & Communication Skills

• Strong stakeholder‑management and communication skills
• Ability to work with senior business and technology leaders
• Experience in client‑facing roles preferred

Key Responsibilities

1. To conduct in-depth analysis to understand client needs, challenges, and opportunities, translating them into clear and concise functional specifications.
2. To analyze available options, considering feasibility, cost, and alignment with business requirements and suggest solutions.
3. To participate and facilitate the walkthrough’ to brief the functional specification mapping to business requirements.
4. To prepare and / or aid the preparation of test cases in line with functional requirements
5. Tackle complex business problems and develop innovative solutions.

Skill Requirements

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Other Requirements

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