Coforge
Lead Data Business Analyst
London
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Job Title: Lead Data Business Analyst
Location: London, UK
Job type: Full time
About the Role
We at Coforge are looking for a Lead Data Business Analyst in London, UK.
Key Responsibilities
Business Analysis & Requirements Management
- Lead business analysis activities across the enterprise data platform transformation programme.
- Elicit, analyse, validate, and document business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
- Facilitate discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews, and process mapping sessions.
- Analyse current-state ("As-Is") processes and define future-state ("To-Be") operating models.
- Translate business objectives into detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and epics.
- Ensure complete requirements traceability from business objectives through to delivery and testing.
- Support solution validation and ensure delivered capabilities meet business expectations.
Product Ownership & Agile Delivery
- Act as Product Owner for one or more delivery teams, managing the product backlog and sprint priorities.
- Define and communicate product vision, roadmap, and release priorities.
- Work closely with Scrum Masters and Engineering Leads to ensure delivery aligns with business value.
- Prioritise features based on business outcomes, dependencies, and programme objectives.
- Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and release planning.
- Drive adoption of Agile best practices across business and technology teams.
Migration Programme Leadership
- Play a leading role in the successful delivery of complex enterprise cloud and data migration programmes.
- Coordinate business readiness activities across multiple workstreams.
- Support migration planning, cutover activities, and transition to business-as-usual operations.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and issues, ensuring timely resolution and escalation where required.
- Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to ensure business requirements are accurately reflected in the target solution.
- Support data validation, user acceptance testing (UAT), and post-migration verification activities.
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Stakeholder Management & Client Engagement
- Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders across business and technology functions.
- Act as the primary interface between Client's London-based stakeholders and offshore delivery teams.
- Facilitate workshops, steering meetings, and decision-making sessions.
- Communicate complex technical concepts in clear business language.
- Manage stakeholder expectations, negotiate priorities, and drive consensus across diverse teams.
- Provide regular progress updates, risk assessments, and delivery insights to programme leadership.
- Ensure effective collaboration between client teams, architects, engineers, testers, and project management.
Technical Collaboration
- Work closely with Solution Architects, Data Architects, Platform Architects, and Engineering Leads to shape solution design.
- Develop a strong understanding of the GCP cloud data platform, migration approach, and operating model.
- Review solution designs to ensure alignment with business requirements.
- Support definition of non-functional requirements including security, governance, resilience, performance, and operational readiness.
- Ensure architecture decisions remain aligned with business priorities.
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Documentation & Governance
- Produce and maintain high-quality programme documentation including:
- Business Requirements Documents (BRDs)
- Functional Requirements Specifications (FRSs)
- User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
- Process Maps
- Use Cases
- Product Roadmaps
- Backlog Documentation
Required Skills & Experience
Essential
- 8–12 years of Business Analysis and/or Product Ownership experience delivering complex technology transformation programmes.
- Proven experience leading business analysis activities on large-scale cloud migration, data migration, or digital transformation programmes.
- Strong experience acting as a Product Owner within Agile delivery environments.
- Demonstrated experience working with distributed delivery teams across onsite and offshore locations.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior business and technical stakeholders.
- Proven experience facilitating workshops, requirements gathering sessions, and design discussions.
- Strong experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and maintaining prioritised Agile backlogs.
- Experience defining functional and non-functional requirements including security, governance, operational readiness, and performance.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), business readiness, and migration validation.
- Excellent written documentation and presentation skills.
- Outstanding verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience using Jira, Confluence, and Agile delivery tools.
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Skills
Business Analysis
Product Ownership
Agile Delivery
Cloud Migration
Data Migration
Stakeholder Management
Requirements Elicitation
User Story Writing
Backlog Management
UAT Support
Process Mapping
GCP Cloud Data Platform
Location