Lead Business Analyst 2

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Job Title - Lead Business Analyst – Specialist - ACS Song Management Level: 9 – Specialist Location: Kochi Must have skills: Requirement Analysis Good to have skills: eCommerce techno-functional BA Experience: 5-8 years of experience is required Educational Qualification: Graduation (Accurate educational details should capture) Job Summary You will help clients translate business and user needs into digitally enabled commerce solutions . The role requires a consultative techno-functional Business Analyst who can work independently in client-facing engagements, connect business objectives with platform capabilities, and enable delivery teams through clear requirements, backlog readiness and stakeholder alignment. Roles And Responsibilities • Independently lead requirements elicitation for assigned eCommerce workstreams by facilitating client workshops, interviews and playback sessions. • Analyze as-is processes and design to-be business, solution and system requirements in partnership with client stakeholders and delivery teams. • Create and maintain epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, business rules, data needs and decision logs. • Own backlog readiness for upcoming sprints by planning refinement, identifying dependencies and clarifying functional and technical questions. • Act as a bridge between client Product Owner, business SMEs, UX/design, architects, developers, QA and project/program stakeholders. • Identify solution options and recommend fit-for-purpose approaches by balancing business value, user experience, feasibility and delivery complexity. • Ensure requirements and designs remain aligned throughout change, implementation, testing and release cycles. • Support UAT planning, test scenario review, defect triage and business readiness activities. • Contribute to product roadmap inputs, release scope definition and improvement ideas based on client priorities and market/platform awareness. • Mentor junior team members on BA ways of working, quality of user stories and stakeholder communication. • Expected to operate with limited supervision in a client-facing consultative BA role. • Own medium-complexity functional areas or workstreams and escalate risks with mitigation options. • Maintain clear communication rhythms with client stakeholders and internal teams. • Demonstrate strong analytical thinking, outcome orientation and ownership for BA deliverables. • Provide constructive challenge to requirements prioritization and help shape backlog value. • Strong understanding of digital commerce capabilities including product discovery, product detail pages, cart, checkout, order capture, promotions, payment, inventory visibility and order status. • Ability to map business journeys and identify functional gaps across B2B/B2C commerce, marketplace, omnichannel and customer-service-enabled commerce experiences. • Working knowledge of commerce platform concepts such as catalog, product information, pricing display, promotions, campaigns, search, merchandising, content, customer accounts and integrations. • Ability to collaborate with product owners, experience designers, architects and engineering teams to convert experience and business objectives into implementation-ready backlog items. • Understanding of APIs, events, integrations, data flows and non-functional requirements relevant to commerce platforms. • Ability to independently own a commerce feature area such as product discovery, checkout, promotions, account management, order management, or content/merchandising.