Principal Business Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in China.

📋 Description

• Lead the most extensive, intricate, and strategically important cross-domain analysis projects within the domain group.

• Define analysis challenges, establish scope, approach, dependencies, and necessary BA capacity across various domains.

• Oversee Domain BAs throughout the design and implementation phases.

• Ensure coherence of requirements across domain borders to prevent any contradictory or overlapping needs.

• Facilitate requirements gathering, feasibility assessments, and options analysis for initiatives with high ambiguity or those involving senior stakeholders.

• Present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders and governance committees.

• Manage relationships with stakeholders across domain teams, as well as senior product, delivery, and engineering personnel.

• Contribute to cross-domain UAT planning and guarantee comprehensive end-to-end test coverage.

• Uphold analytical quality during design and implementation, serving as a senior escalation point for ambiguous or contentious analysis issues.

• Ensure the consistent application of domain-model terminology across BA artifacts.

• Integrate initiative work into the T&F business architecture, encompassing processes, organizational structures, systems, and data flows.

• Lead the documentation of capability-level processes, organizational frameworks, systems, and data flows.

• Support Business Decision Records and identify chances to unify or streamline processes.

• Validate initiative analyses against target architecture and the domain model.

• Collaboratively define and uphold BA methodology, standards, templates, artifacts, and shared terminology.

• Jointly establish the BA competency framework and progression model.

• Manage the BA community of practice and address skill gaps throughout the practice.

• Define requirements governance and UAT standards.

• Review BA artifacts and provide oversight on quality.

• Mentor Domain BAs without direct line-management authority.

⛳️ Requirements

• Degree-level education or professional experience that has provided equivalent knowledge.

• Business analysis certification (e.g., BCS/ISEB, IIBA CBAP) is advantageous but not mandatory.

• Extensive experience in business analysis within complex, multi-domain organizations.

• Experience in publishing, content, or platform business is a plus.

• Proven ability in scoping and managing large, complex, or cross-domain analysis projects from start to finish.

• Experience in coordinating multiple BAs during the design and implementation phases.

• Proven experience in establishing BA standards and methodologies in a federated or distributed delivery environment.

• Direct experience collaborating with enterprise or business architects on capability-driven analysis and design.

• Comfortable contributing to architecture-level artifacts and documenting architectural decisions.

• Strong history of engaging with senior stakeholders, including technology leaders and business sponsors.

• Coaching and development experience with junior or mid-career BAs, even in the absence of formal line management.

• Demonstrated ability to work with colleagues across various locations and time zones.

• Must possess the right to work and reside in the UK.

• Candidates should live within a commutable distance to the London office.

🏝️ Benefits

• 24 days of annual leave.

• 4 volunteering days each year.

• A day off for your birthday.

• Pension contributions.

• Medical insurance for yourself and dependants.

• Life cover and personal accident coverage for yourself.

• Seasonal social and charitable events.

• Training and development opportunities.

• Tools and equipment for remote working.

• Competitive salary plus bonus.