Lead Business Analyst
- Location
- Switzerland
- Posted
- Reference
- AO124
- Employer
- Technology Staffing Group SA
Lead Business Analyst | BA Transformation & Practice Development | Business & IT Alignment | Requirements & Specification Standards; lead hands-on business analysis while building, structuring and improving the practices that help BA teams deliver with greater clarity, consistency and impact.
About the role
The role combines two responsibilities: taking ownership of business analysis across complex systems and projects, while improving how the BA team operates through clearer roles, processes, standards, and ways of working.
The goal is to create a more structured and consistent BA practice while remaining directly involved in delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead business analysis activities across complex projects and systems, from requirements clarification through to specifications that delivery teams can use effectively.
- Work closely with business and IT stakeholders to understand needs, clarify requirements, and translate them into clear and actionable specifications.
- Assess existing BA practices and identify where roles, processes, coordination, and ways of working can be improved.
- Introduce practical standards and approaches for requirements and specifications, improving consistency and quality across the team.
- Establish clearer ways of working within the BA function and support their adoption across projects.
- Support and develop Business Analysts, providing guidance and helping the team adopt more consistent practices.
- Build alignment and secure buy-in from business and IT stakeholders when introducing changes to established ways of working.
- Remain directly involved in project delivery while helping strengthen the overall BA function.
Experience
- Extensive Business Analysis experience, including senior, lead, or comparable leadership responsibility.
- Proven experience transforming, restructuring, or significantly improving a Business Analysis team or function.
- Demonstrated experience introducing new BA practices, processes, standards, or ways of working and bringing others along in their adoption.
- Strong hands-on experience delivering business analysis within complex projects and systems.
- Experience developing or supporting other Business Analysts and improving coordination across a BA team.
- Strong stakeholder management experience across business and IT.
- Demonstrated ability to introduce change, navigate resistance, and build adoption around new ways of working.
- Strong written communication and experience improving the quality and consistency of requirements and specifications.
Technical fluency
- Strong command of Business Analysis practices across requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and specification.
- Experience translating complex business requirements into clear specifications that can be effectively used by delivery teams.
- Ability to work confidently across business and IT environments and facilitate alignment between the two.
- Experience establishing practical templates, standards, and processes that improve analysis quality and delivery.
- Comfortable working across complex systems and project environments.
Ways of working
- Communicate complex requirements clearly, concisely, and in a structured way to both business and technical audiences.
- Build trust and influence across BA teams, business stakeholders, and IT teams.
- Demonstrate leadership and ownership, particularly when improving established processes or navigating resistance to change.
- Able to articulate and defend recommendations, explain the rationale behind proposed changes, and adapt the message to the audience.
- Structured and pragmatic, with the confidence to challenge existing approaches constructively and define a practical path forward.
- Remain hands-on and delivery-focused while also taking a broader view of how the BA function can improve.
Qualifications
- Track record of transforming or significantly improving a Business Analysis team or function.
- Experience within insurance, particularly life insurance, is a plus but not essential.
- Fluent French.
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