Lead Business Analyst

About the role:

Srijan, a Material company, is a global digital engineering firm that solves complex technology challenges through deep technical expertise and strategic partnerships. Material helps leading brands design and deliver customer experiences by combining human insights, design innovation, data, and modern technology.

We are looking for a Lead Business Analyst with hands-on experience in software applications, Data Science, AI/ML, and Agentic AI projects. The role involves understanding end-to-end business processes, identifying customer needs, evaluating solution options, and translating business requirements into clear, actionable specifications for technical implementation.

Responsibilities:

- Understand end-to-end business lifecycles and identify both stated and unstated customer needs to deliver business value.

- Analyze, validate, refine, and optimize solution options, selecting approaches that best align with customer needs, business benefits, and product objectives.

- Develop well-reasoned recommendations for decision-makers, supported by clear justification and effective stakeholder influencing.

- Understand business domains and industry best practices to identify and propose new features, enhancements, and requirements.

- Translate business needs into clear, structured, and actionable documentation for technical implementation.

- Challenge assumptions, investigate unfamiliar problems, and apply practical, flexible thinking to identify effective solutions.

- Communicate clearly and concisely, ensuring documentation is professional, reader-focused, grammatically accurate, and highlights missing or incomplete information.

- Collaborate with stakeholders, actively listen to diverse perspectives, and incorporate relevant expertise into decision-making.

- Support Agile delivery using Scrum practices and tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Word, Excel, and Visio.

Requirements:

- 7 - 12 years of hands-on experience as a Business Analyst working with software applications.

- Experience in Data Science, AI/ML, Agentic AI projects, and large-scale enterprise product development.

- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum.

- Proficiency in Jira, Confluence, wikis, Microsoft Word, Excel, and Visio.

- Ability to evaluate solution alternatives, assess business impact, and recommend options aligned with customer and product objectives.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, and stakeholder management skills.

- Excellent requirements gathering, documentation, communication, and influencing skills.

- Ability to understand business domains, identify improvement opportunities, and convert business needs into implementable requirements.